noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hairpin bend (= a very sharp bend in which a road changes direction, usually on a mountain )
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The road wound up the mountain in a series of hairpin bends.
hairpin bend
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bend
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There are terrifying hairpin bends , sharp dips and sudden ascents.
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When not thinking about puking your guts up round every hairpin bend , scenery magnificent.
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She floated above and ahead of them, and her eyes narrowed on to a shimmer of water at a hairpin bend .
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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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It should be noted that hairpin bends are often necessary geographical features in high and exciting terrain.
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Some of the hairpin bends had Ruth clinging to her seat and holding her breath.
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When the road turns sharply left in a hairpin bend , take the footpath ahead into the woodland.
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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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the riders struggle up through the hairpins, you can hear the screams of encouragement from below.
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Both feature hairpin curves and one-lane tunnels.
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From that jumping-off point, the plot hits hairpin turns, sudden cliff drops and delirious loops of logic and technology.
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It is a hairpin turn along a treacherous route.
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Much jewellery, especially gemstones and hairpins, was itself used as a vehicle for portraiture.
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She dealt with a stray wisp of grey hair and pushed her hairpins firmly into place.
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The relationship to the hairpin vortices described above is not wholly clear.
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The taxi banked into a hairpin turn that squeezed them together, the pressure from her increasing by her own will.