hairpin

Example Sentences

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He was on course to improve on his final run but locked up into the hairpin and lost time.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Antonelli then passed Hamilton into the hairpin on lap 11 before Audi's Nico Hulkenberg stopped in the run-off area at Turn One with a technical failure to bring out the safety car.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

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

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

Dolores adjusted her hairpin slightly and glanced at the woman’s chart again.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff