Example Sentences

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The friends run the popular F1 podcast Hairpins and Straights, giving fans in-depth race reviews, interviews and content about travel to races.

From BBC • May 29, 2024

Hairpins were found rusted into her hair; she had not washed it for 15 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

The children scampered into the hall, and on the wall they saw a large placard which read: "Pins one Hairpins two Four-leafed clovers five Horse-shoes ten Pennies fifteen Black cats twenty-five."

From Marjorie at Seacote by Wells, Carolyn

Guard well your Heart and let the Hairpins go - To lose your Heart were arrant Carelessness.

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace

What reckons Love of Hairpins more or less?

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace