How To Use Hairpin bend In A Sentence
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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.
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It should be noted that hairpin bends are often necessary geographical features in high and exciting terrain.
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At one point, we zipped through 22 hairpin bends of tightly curled switchbacks and descended more than 10,000 ft.
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Climbing the steep mountain roads round hairpin bends was quite dramatic and more than once I had glimpses of distant eagles.
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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
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Climbing the steep mountain roads round hairpin bends was quite dramatic and more than once I had glimpses of distant eagles.
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No one tackles its succession of hairpin bends unless they have to: it is a particularly dangerous stretch of road.
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Humans reach the house by a series of hairpin bends up bumpy woodland tracks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The roads twist round hairpin bends.
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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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But the youngsters who zoom on their bikes curving along the hairpin bends have to take a day off.
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On our mountain safari we ascend spectacular mountain passes, traverse hairpin bends, rolling green hills and dramatic and awe-inspiring sandstone cliffs.
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Some of the hairpin bends had Ruth clinging to her seat.
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In practice, this enables you to steer easily round hairpin bends.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of these creatures I’ll call the hairpin bend, for reasons that will become apparent.
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Throwing yourself into hairpin bends and just slamming on the brakes is not the answer.
The Sun
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He looked back, then surged ahead and sprinted up the 21 hairpin bends to the summit, claiming his first stage victory and beating Ullrich by a whopping 1 minute, 59 seconds.
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Climbing the steep mountain roads round hairpin bends was quite dramatic and more than once I had glimpses of distant eagles.
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It had hairpin bends and was in the blaze of the midday sun - the full monty as far as mountains go.
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Winding roads, with nail-biting hairpin bends, offer views over steep wooded slopes and the jagged profile of the Alpi Apuane mountain range, where chestnut trees, olive groves and tall cypresses proliferate.
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The rise in altitude from 6,000 ft to double that was reached via heartstoppingly steep gradients and hairpin bends.
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We are taken on a wild ride -- for a ride, we may occasionally feel -- that executes its hairpin bends with breathtaking lurches.
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The unsightly cast-iron gasometer that gave its name to a hairpin bend is long gone, the train station whose ticket office overlooked another 180-degree corner has been replaced by a luxury hotel, and the famous Tabac is buried during race week under the latticed scaffolding of a temporary grandstand.
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We breathe out and relax, until the next hairpin bend.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The route soon turns into hairpin bends where the area is dotted with tea estates.
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But we spent more than an hour pedalling up the steep hairpin bends.
The Sun
