How to Use hairpin in a Sentence

hairpin

1 of 2 noun
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  • Secure the hairpin legs to the base using shorter screws and the drill.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Brush the bangs into a side swoop and secure with a hairpin.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 18 July 2023
  • But the plants had no roots; they were made of plastic and affixed to hairpins.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • My tension eased as the hairpin turns gave way to a more sedate course.
    — Brady MacDonald, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
  • The prelude was an off-camber cascade with a steep hairpin turn to the right.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In August, a tourist was detained and fined for carving on the wall with a hairpin.
    — Larissa Gao, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Beggars and cold dogs sit at the hairpin turns, where drivers have to slow almost to a stop.
    — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Contraband hairpins were allowed but had to be returned at the end of the evening.
    — Joy Resmovits, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
  • All the streets wind with hairpin turns up into the lush hills, splitting into side streets.
    — Wudan Yan, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
  • By Lap 2, having been rear-ended in the Turn 11 hairpin, his day – and season – were done.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Apr. 2023
  • To put boring hair days behind you, shop the eye-catching hairpins in the gallery below.
    — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 31 Oct. 2019
  • And since then, there’s really only been Bill, who bought her a hairpin and got her a job at Revlon that starts in the new year.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Coming out of a 90-degree turn, the motor provided enough pop to chirp the tires and make up some time lost on the hairpin.
    — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
  • 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
  • Among those were glass beads, pottery, clay figures, tiles, and more than 100 hairpins.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
  • 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
  • The Carousel goes down from Turn 4 through Turns 5 and 6 before leading into the course's longest straightaway and the Turn 7 hairpin.
    — Jenna Fryer, Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
  • The Carousel goes down from Turn 4 through Turns 5 and 6 before leading into the course’s longest straightaway and the Turn 7 hairpin.
    — Jenna Fryer, orlandosentinel.com, 6 June 2021
  • From there the road descends in muddy hairpins through forests of towering blue pine to the lush valley of Punakha.
    — Lawrence Osborne, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
  • So Denker didn’t know why drivers almost uniformly hugged the left side of the track while headed for the hairpin.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 5 June 2023
  • Reviewers love the slender steel hairpin legs, which add a touch of whimsy and fun.
    — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2022
  • However, all the attention is driven straight to the hairpin in the center of her part.
    — Sheilla Mamona, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Our instructors told us that any time in the low 20-second range for the course’s smooth S-turns and tighter hairpins would be respectable.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Ruthie built benches for the eating area out of leftover butcher block and hairpin legs.
    — Maria V. Charbonneaux, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The roads are dry, dusted with a milky layer of salt, and the all-wheel-drive R75 proves obliging, more than once bringing itself back into line for me as hairpin follows hairpin.
    — Robin Swithinbank, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Views are sparse but the loop’s string of bumps, bends and hairpin turns that slingshot hikers over cottonwood-cluttered drainages, ledges and through boulder outcroppings provide plenty of entertainment.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
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hairpin

2 of 2 adjective
  • Attach Legs Attach the hairpin legs to each corner of the bottom of the box.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Artist Chivas Clem creates works that take hairpin turns at high speeds.
    — Christopher Mosley, Dallas News, 2 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Schaake’s speech was a hairpin turn in rhetorical space.
    — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Several hairpin turns and steep drops-off may not be suitable for RVs.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Hamilton started faster than Bottas and had the inside line into the hairpin bend at turn one.
    — Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Some exist as double strands or fold back on themselves in hairpin loops.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Stunning vistas, tall ferns and pine trees are found at every hairpin bend.
    — Stephanie Takyi, CNN, 2 June 2021
  • The stoppage, as racers were flying through hairpin bends down from the Iseran climb, threw the race into chaos.
    — NBC News, 26 July 2019
  • 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 last dozen miles to Fort Ross are pretty amazing: hairpin curves and sheer cliffs, a tribute to highway engineers.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 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 custom green lacquered vanity with brass hairpin legs drove the design.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Consider driving down a mountain road with a hairpin turn up ahead.
    — Darrell Moon, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The movie’s best scenes, Mr. Trintignant insisted, were his hairpin racing turns in Monte Carlo.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2022
  • There’s a hairpin tonal shift as the laughter stills and an air of expectancy fills the room: the comedian is about to get vulnerable.
    — Sarah Chihaya, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 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
  • Follow Juniper Gate back to the Noodle Loop, which spools out like limp fettuccine with hairpin turns wrapping around inclines and scoured ravines, and follow the signs back to the trailhead.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The Ioniq 6 advances the 5’s system with hairpin windings for its electric motors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Upgrade your work-from-home setup with the Ameriwood Home Landon Desk, now just $80, which is perfect for small spaces and features hairpin legs for an on-trend look.
    — Melanie Fincher, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Quite simply, a ballistic missile lobbed into the stratosphere with enough force to send it across the Pacific Ocean can’t pull off a hairpin turn to hit a target ‘just’ a few hundred miles away.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023

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