round the bend

Example Sentences

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In the meantime, no one seems to know what will happen when the buses from Austin, Houston and Dallas round the bend on Highway 39 next month—if they are allowed to.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

When it reaches the right side of the track, you see it round the bend and then start moving right to left.

From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2023

The women who went back to their partners drove some of the staff round the bend.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019

Her first built work, a small fire station the Vitra furniture campus in Switzerland, famously sent its users round the bend, its wayward walls and aggressive angles driving the firemen to distraction.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2016

At the same time Boromir and Aragorn reappeared round the bend far behind him and came labouring up the slope.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien