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The road took a hairpin turn at a small stream.

He beat at the horn as they went around a hairpin turn.

Then suddenly the road made a hairpin turn around a last cliff.

The 15-minute drive to the top is full of hairpin turns on a narrow road.

It is well known for its 18 consecutive hairpin turns.

Seconds later, they hit the next hairpin turn and barely made it.

She said, "Keep bearing left, then the road makes a hairpin turn to the right."

The truck, by then, was well around the hairpin turn and heading north.

Unfortunately for them, this happens because their car has shot out into space at the hairpin turn.

He circled in a tight hairpin turn and went back.

On the road, the truck had halted half around the hairpin turn.

The course included a hairpin turn inside the main event tent.

He knows the hairpin turns a person's health can take, and asks for no guarantees.

Clinton's personality has a tendency to produce political hairpin turns.

"Good God," my father said after one horrible leap across a hairpin turn.

Somebody told me there are 90 hairpin turns in a 105-mile stretch, and I have always believed it.

The company instead said it would raise money on the capital markets, a hairpin turn in its strategy.

The mine consists of a clear corridor, often with a hairpin turn.

From here, the road winds up for the next 17 km, with many hairpin turns on the way.

"Could you take it easy on the hairpin turns?"

When it comes to arranging hairpin turns in a narrative, he can do everything but stop.

Sure enough, there was one in the gully with the hairpin turn on the road, keeping watch.

This one is designed with an acute hairpin turn.

Up ahead is a hairpin turn, slick with ice.

When you take a hairpin turn, what is the force that pulls you to the side?

He went to a point on the road where there was good cover and a hairpin bend.

It's a mountain road, but it has only one hairpin bend.

Then they went round a hairpin bend to their right and continued rising.

The lower part has sharp hairpin bends and is at times very steep.

The hairpin bends are named after the winners of stages.

At the next hairpin bend, it stalled and ran backwards.

This had better be worth it, I muttered as we negotiated yet another hairpin bend.

The road wound up a mountainside in tight hairpin bends.

The British couple in the burnt-out car might have taken the hairpin bend too wide.

It has 36 hairpin bends and is closed overnight.

It is known for having 27 hairpin bends, which often results in massive traffic jams.

There are hairpin bends and "S" shaped curves in the track.

Nothing thrives up there except prickly things and hairpin bends.

The climb is 13.8 km at an average 7.9 per cent, with 21 hairpin bends.

He gave one final glance down at the camp below, then continued on round the hairpin bend, moving fast.

There is a speed limit of 20 mph due to multiple hairpin bends.

The streets are narrow and the roads have hairpin bends which makes it difficult for vehicles to turn.

The turnoff itself was easy to miss, only a few hundred yards past a hairpin bend in the road.

And when the weight of his hand became heavier, it was because the turn ahead was a hairpin bend.

Julia asked, as the bus creaked round a particularly sharp hairpin bend.

The road is narrow with many hairpin bends.

This includes sharp 20 hairpin bends along 25 km's ghat road.

It passes through a hilly terrain and has to negotiate 27 hairpin bends.

It rose interminably - each hairpin bend had to be the last, yet it was not.

When the road turns sharply left in a hairpin bend, take the footpath ahead into the woodland.