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hairpin

[ UK /hˈe‍əpɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place

How To Use hairpin In A Sentence

  • In practice, this enables you to steer easily round hairpin bends. Times, Sunday Times
  • But we spent more than an hour pedalling up the steep hairpin bends. The Sun
  • The road twisted and hairpinned and climbed, but as scary mountain passes go, it was pretty tame.
  • These vary in tightness: some are hairpin turns, while others swoop down the mountain and are faster. Times, Sunday Times
  • A veil, scarf, or kerchief may be suspended from the head and attached there with a headband or hairpins, or it may variably wrap the head, neck, and shoulders.
  • Unlike larger polypeptides and proteins, small nucleic acid duplexes and hairpins do not have a dense core to which this effect would apply.
  • They dug up thousands of plates, brooches, hairpins and pendants, carefully placed for the afterlife with the bodies of wealthy rulers entombed in royal burial chambers.
  • We drove up the Arlberg Pass in Austria - the Hymer handled the dizzying hairpin turns like a dream - one Sunday and couldn't even get a parking spot in Lech, chockers with skiiers from Germany.
  • Physical analysis of TNR-containing DNA strands showed that they readily adopt unusual secondary structures, such as hairpins, triplexes, quadruplexes, and slipped-strand conformations (summarized in SINDEN 1999).
  • It clings tenuously to the stony mountainside in a thin line of hairpins before dropping out of sight.
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