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hairpin bend

NOUN
  1. a U-shaped bend in a road

How To Use hairpin bend In A Sentence

  • As we edge round a series of perilous hairpin bends and teetering boulders, my guide Jani, dressed in ripped denims, a worn leather jacket and battered Stetson, roars with laughter as I explain my search.
  • It should be noted that hairpin bends are often necessary geographical features in high and exciting terrain.
  • At one point, we zipped through 22 hairpin bends of tightly curled switchbacks and descended more than 10,000 ft.
  • Climbing the steep mountain roads round hairpin bends was quite dramatic and more than once I had glimpses of distant eagles.
  • Five miles of twisting narrow lanes then a mile-long descent ending in a vertiginous 30% decline with tight blind hairpin bends. Times, Sunday Times
  • Climbing the steep mountain roads round hairpin bends was quite dramatic and more than once I had glimpses of distant eagles.
  • No one tackles its succession of hairpin bends unless they have to: it is a particularly dangerous stretch of road.
  • Humans reach the house by a series of hairpin bends up bumpy woodland tracks. Times, Sunday Times
  • The roads twist round hairpin bends.
  • A training section with 142 challenges may help you master the most unforgiving hairpin bends, but accuracy is king in this game. Times, Sunday Times
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