Thesaurus results for HAIRPIN

hairpin

noun

as in slope

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Recent Examples of hairpin Night begins with a brand-new two-door 1967 Pontiac LeMans crawling on vertiginous Franklin Road outside Evans City, Pennsylvania, before making a hairpin turn up a steep, slender dirt road that leads into the famous cemetery. —

Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026 Around the time of its closest approach, the comet will whip around the sun on a hairpin-like curve at a speed of over 1 million miles per hour. —

Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2026 Where military service is compulsory, and may only disappoint our best or even worst men, but can be interrupted, thank god, by life’s hairpin turns. —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Feb. 2026 To keep the hairpin turns and runaway carousel rides to a minimum, Dietrich, his chief lieutenant, Josh Belovsky, and assistants Ryan Day and Tony Schifano — the latter joining the staff this year — hit the recruiting trail and transfer portal hard. —

Brian Robin, Oc Register, 11 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hairpin

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The gangway up to the Empire State VII slopes from the dock at Fort Schuyler in the Bronx, where the East River meets the Long Island Sound.

— Steve Kastenbaum, NPR, 9 May 2026
Forecasters warned of elevated fire danger across Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties; the Kern County desert; and the slopes of the Mojave Desert.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026