hairpin
Example Sentences
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To reach Ghorjomi mosque, one of the biggest, we drove up hairpin mountain lanes, edged with blue hydrangeas, until we spotted the minaret.
Light rain began to fall after about 20 laps and on lap 23 Hamilton got off line through the banked Hugenholtzbocht hairpin.
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While the meetings at the White House went smoothly, he has made hairpin turns in American foreign policy before and he could do so again.
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But Norris went off track on the exit of Turn One and came close to losing control at the hairpin a number of times.
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He ran on to the kerb at Degner One, twice had an oversteer moment at the hairpin, and then a big wobble out of the final chicane.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
