hairpin curve
Example Sentences
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But if I do end up blowing by a hairpin curve, I can just hit the rewind button to get another opportunity to more smoothly make the turn.
From The Verge • Nov. 4, 2021
For example, the narrow hairpin curve known as Loews turns back on itself at almost 180 degrees.
From New York Times • May 27, 2016
The Cadillac Coche M�xico, hightailing southward from Ciudad Juarez at better than 100 m.p.h., screeched off a hairpin curve, rolled over three times into a rocky ditch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Charles Lindbergh's car to the curb on a hairpin curve three years ago, snapped a picture of Baby Jon.
From Time Magazine Archive
In these imaginings Monica appeared in pongee and a sun-hat riding an elephant, in pearls and satin receiving royalty, in tweed knickerbockers and a woollen jersey coasting around the hairpin curve at Saint Moritz.
From The Lost Road by Davis, Richard Harding
