hairpin
Example Sentences
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Checking up before a tight hairpin—braking late, downshifting with the paddle shifters, turning hard into hairpin corners, the weight of the wheel growing heavy, the little engine piping at full spool.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
Seeing the hairpin turns up close revealed why the Grand Prix is one of the world’s most adrenaline-pumping races.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026
To reach Ghorjomi mosque, one of the biggest, we drove up hairpin mountain lanes, edged with blue hydrangeas, until we spotted the minaret.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Light rain began to fall after about 20 laps and on lap 23 Hamilton got off line through the banked Hugenholtzbocht hairpin.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2025
His mother put down the colander and stuck the hairpin behind the sink board.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
