How to Use switchback in a Sentence

switchback

1 of 2 noun

• The four-mile out-and-back trail is short but steep and full of switchbacks.
  — Jeff Ficker, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2023
• Turn in, and climb a rocky series of switchbacks as the trail rises.
  — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• The Yazidi man ran to the car, jumped in and drove it up the switchbacks.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2016
• Meanwhile, the park's switchback slide has twists and turns down a curved tunnel.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 21 Jan. 2023
• His face is rugged, with a nose that moves this way and that, like a switchback trail, to suggest his past.
  — Steve Volk, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
• Those who reach the top return via the Barr Trail’s switchbacks.
  — Abigail Bliss, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
• There are a few switchbacks with sporadic wooden steps to help in your ascent.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
• Kuhn climbed through switchbacks for nearly an hour in a dreary drizzle.
  — Ilima Loomis, Science | AAAS, 1 Aug. 2017
• The car drove the switchback streets down to central Florence.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2017
• Here’s where the route begins a moderate climb on long switchbacks.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 5 Dec. 2019
• As the steward poured me a white wine, the carriages rattled and swayed around the switchbacks.
  — Tom Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2023
• Hundreds of people trudged up the steep switchbacks in single file.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
• Enter a ravine and follow gradual switchbacks to a small mesa at the top.
  — Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
• The switchbacks up the south flank are clear of snow, with great views across to Lake Almanor.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Turn into a sharp set of switchbacks at speed and the effort will become heavier to match the job.
  — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2013
• The five-mile hike is known for its panoramas, which shift bafflingly at every switchback.
  — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2021
• The steering needs more feel, and the brakes could use more fade resistance for onslaughts of switchbacks.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 14 May 2023
• Within a short distance, the trail makes a sharp turn to the right and begins a downhill plunge on long switchbacks.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 16 May 2018
• Other, smaller trails branch off as the series of 11 switchbacks climbs the face of the cliff.
  — oregonlive, 8 May 2023
• The road is a mix of tight switchbacks, sudden grades and blind curves that can humble lesser vehicles.
  — Sponsored Content, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
• Over the last month, the jet stream has resembled a switchback trail, causing weather pileups around the globe.
  — Ned Kleiner, Star Tribune, 28 July 2021
• After racing through the gut and gully, runners can descend down the cliff, switchbacks or roots to reach the street.
  — Author: Kat Sorensen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2019
• This region is filled with cliff towns and castles that are so fun to drive to, navigating the switchbacks and sharp turns.
  — Matt Hranek, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2018
• In the strange switchback of their lives, Per and Jakobe each redefined the meaning of luck.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• Less than a quarter mile away, up a switchback fire road, the Temescal Canyon Trail begins.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
• Four miles and 20-some switchbacks later, I was poised to finish well ahead of my target time.
  — Katie Jackson, Outside, 11 Sep. 2025
• The drive through the snowy switchbacks into the valley was terrifying.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2018
• The switchback stair going to the lower level also functions as the pantry, just seven steps away from the kitchen.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• On paper, the Sorento SX appears to be set up for switchbacks.
  — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2013
• From the get-go, bikers will ascend gnarly switchbacks and rocky terrain with some sections so rugged that skilled riders will still be forced to walk.
  — Heather Balogh Rochfort, The Know, 13 June 2019

switchback

2 of 2 verb

• The serpentine road cuts back and forth up the mountain, each of its dozen or so switchbacks tight and steep.
  — Michael Barry, WSJ, 25 May 2023
• This is a land of chestnuts, almonds, olive oil and vineyards, as well as rocky outcrops and switchback roads.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 24 July 2022
• Most roads were nothing more than unpaved, gravel tracks with steep inclines, scary drop-offs, and switchback curves.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2025
• Jerome is laid out vertically, with Arizona 89A switchbacking through it.
  — Scott Craven, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2017
• Scientists have observed bursts of energetic particles never seen before on such a small scale, as well as switchback-like reversals in the out-flowing solar magnetic field that seem to whip up the solar wind.
  — Fox News, 11 July 2020
• From the main entrance near Broad and Noble Streets, the trail switchbacks past urban glades, clusters of benches, reimagined steel catenaries, and a public art sculpture that resembles (much too literally) a telephone pole.
  — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Flanagan cannot quite make Ziggy’s magnetism or sinister influence plausible, but the novel, with its switchbacking recollections and cyclical dialogue, its penetrating scenes of birth and, eventually, death, is enigmatic and mesmerizing.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
• By Todd Woody, Bloomberg On a warm summer morning, two fire officials navigate an SUV along a narrow road that switchbacks high into the hills above the town of Fairfax, California, where thickets of trees conceal hundreds of homes.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 July 2026