switching
Example Sentences
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Most intend to continue 12 miles along a switchbacking road, trading neon-green moss for a rarefied world of ice and snow at Paradise.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2023
Most of the rest of the climb is exposed, including the crossing of a boulder field and switchbacking up a steep talus slope.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2021
As we wind up into the mountains on sinuous, switchbacking gravel roads, a plume of dust rising from the rear tires, there are 17 other people in the pickup bed with me.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2019
Paved with smooth stones, it descends some 2,300 feet, switchbacking down rocky slopes speckled with cactuses and shrubby trees, into the Rio Ravelo canyon.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2016
Stone walls following the planes of the land, running straight along the valleys, switchbacking up and down the slopes.
From Mary Olivier: a Life by Sinclair, May
