How to Use hairpin in a Sentence

hairpin

1 of 2 noun
  • Would the book have the same hairpin turn?
    — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • My tension eased as the hairpin turns gave way to a more sedate course.
    — Brady MacDonald, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
  • By the first hairpin turn, the grade hit 11 percent.
    — Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But the plants had no roots; they were made of plastic and affixed to hairpins.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
  • She was buried with objects such as jet hairpins, a group of rare glass flasks, and other grave goods.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 17 May 2026
  • Secure the hairpin legs to the base using shorter screws and the drill.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The prelude was an off-camber cascade with a steep hairpin turn to the right.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
  • That put Daka on a learning curve with some hairpin turns.
    — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Beggars and cold dogs sit at the hairpin turns, where drivers have to slow almost to a stop.
    — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Also, there are some some hairpin turns drivers should plan to encounter.
    — Hal B. Klein, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2021
  • All the streets wind with hairpin turns up into the lush hills, splitting into side streets.
    — Wudan Yan, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Contraband hairpins were allowed but had to be returned at the end of the evening.
    — Joy Resmovits, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
  • Reviewers love the slender steel hairpin legs, which add a touch of whimsy and fun.
    — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2022
  • In August, a tourist was detained and fined for carving on the wall with a hairpin.
    — Larissa Gao, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • To put boring hair days behind you, shop the eye-catching hairpins in the gallery below.
    — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 31 Oct. 2019
  • With its hairpin turns and switchbacks, the driving is memorable too.
    — Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Among those were glass beads, pottery, clay figures, tiles, and more than 100 hairpins.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
  • His hourlong route up the narrow mountain roads includes hairpin turns and no room for error.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • Overholt placed a key and a hairpin against her chest and neck, apparently struggling to hold the key in place.
    — Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 10 June 2021
  • Underfoot is a crunchy mix of gravel and dirt and pine straw, and with every hairpin, the air cools a degree or two.
    — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
  • Long tends to hammer it up to about 145 mph or so and then cruise toward the hairpin left at the end of the straight.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 1 July 2021
  • Place a container near your vanity to hold earrings, rings, hairpins, and coins.
    — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
  • From this point, the trail descends on long hairpin switchbacks to meet up with the Bullseye Trail.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2021
  • However, all the attention is driven straight to the hairpin in the center of her part.
    — Sheilla Mamona, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Part of the fun for the viewer, too, lies in just letting go and seeing where the series’ dizzying hairpin turns will take you.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Many of the branches in your music are loaded with hairpin turns and complex vocal harmonies.
    — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 17 July 2017
  • Keselowski highlighted the first turn, which is a sharp hairpin located at the top of a hill at the end of the pit straight.
    — Gary Gastelu, Fox News, 21 May 2021
  • The road itself is a little rough—it's partially paved and involves a few hairpin turns—but the payoff is worth it.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 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
  • Three hairpins, one royal flush and one delay gate is the minimum requirement in slalom.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2026

hairpin

2 of 2 adjective
  • Some exist as double strands or fold back on themselves in hairpin loops.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Artist Chivas Clem creates works that take hairpin turns at high speeds.
    — Christopher Mosley, Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Stunning vistas, tall ferns and pine trees are found at every hairpin bend.
    — Stephanie Takyi, CNN, 2 June 2021
  • Consider driving down a mountain road with a hairpin turn up ahead.
    — Darrell Moon, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Within a few yards, the road makes a hairpin turn through a broken flank of the extinct cone volcano.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Several hairpin turns and steep drops-off may not be suitable for RVs.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Lucid's motors use hairpin windings that are as pretty as bent copper gets.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Few artists could pull off such hairpin pivots, but for Semones, this is business as usual.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The custom green lacquered vanity with brass hairpin legs drove the design.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Suddenly there were hairpin turns, signaled by yellow signs with curved black arrows.
    — Madhuri Vijay, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • After going around a hairpin turn on the course, the pack around her tightened up, and a girl behind her stepped on the back of her left shoe.
    — Casey Brogan, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Attach Legs Attach the hairpin legs to each corner of the bottom of the box.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Hamilton started faster than Bottas and had the inside line into the hairpin bend at turn one.
    — Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Their performance doesn’t strike a false note, even when the story takes some unexpected twists and hairpin turns.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Gangsters, drug dealing, turf wars and shootouts propel hairpin plot-twists and belie an ambitious book of ideas.
    — Agatha French, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2021
  • By using 4×3-phase hairpin windings, the new motor can pack more copper into the same space.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Over the course of a summer and into fall, all three will be changed in some way, their journey of discovery marked by detours and hairpin turns.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The stoppage, as racers were flying through hairpin bends down from the Iseran climb, threw the race into chaos.
    — NBC News, 26 July 2019
  • This news barely has time to register when the road makes one final hairpin turn and, far below us, the volcano’s caldera comes into view.
    — Chris Johns, SPIN, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The road from his usual James Bond suave to Joe Bang’s twang being a long one with lots of hairpin curves.
    — Jennifer Brett, ajc, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Gangsters, drug dealing, turf wars and shootouts propel hairpin plot twists in this sequel published Tuesday.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2021
  • The narrow two-lane road left little room for error, with hairpin curves and drop-offs of several hundred feet at several spots.
    — Brady MacDonald, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
  • While known for its fabulous views, the narrow, edge-hugging road with hairpin turns and queasy drop-offs proved too dangerous for modern travel needs.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
  • In some places along the drive, the speed limit will drop to 15 or 20 mph for hairpin curves, and even skilled drivers will do well to heed those warnings.
    — Kiona Smith-Strickland, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2013
  • Teams would push their drivers down a straightaway, weaving in-and-out between cones, before making a hairpin turn and sprinting back down a straightaway.
    — Alton Strupp, The Courier-Journal, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The motors are oil-cooled and use hairpin windings, and the drive units integrate a single-speed transmission and the inverter.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The route is twisty and Umugenga swings around the hairpin bends with panache, shifting in his seat with each gear change, while twangy inanga music plays on the radio.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Fayette Station Road will give you an up-close view of the bridge and driving the curlicue roads with hairpin turns is an experience like no other.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • The Ioniq 6 advances the 5’s system with hairpin windings for its electric motors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Amazon has a ton of hairpin leg options with different sizes and colors, including a set of four 12-inch black legs for about $30.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 27 July 2020

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