Hairpin in a sentence

A hairpin loom is often used to create lacy and long stitches, known as hairpin lace.

At a height just over 2,000ft and with its hairpin bends, the road to Applecross in Scotland may be considered one of the scariest in the country.

Imposing peaks called the Towers of Astraka dwarf the small hamlet of Papigo, which is perched at roughly 1,000 metres and reached by a road of hairpin turns.

Polley didn’t give up but a big lock up going into the hairpin put an end to his chance to retake second.

Tensions started over a dilapidated, oceanfront house in Kahakuloa, a small village off a slim highway of hairpin turns and sweeping ocean views on the finish of a valley on Maui, an island identified for luxurious resorts.

It has earned this consideration due to its series of hairpin bends and the high risk of ice on the road.

The researchers have now found that the spike protein changes shape after it fuses with the cell, assuming a rigid hairpin form.

How it got from there to meme stardom is something of a mystery, but it probably had something to do with The Hairpin, which shortly after it came out, block-quoting the “mortifying” line and borrowing it for the title.

In the midst of stock car racing’s early heyday, there was even a two-mile road race that slung drivers around the mountain’s hairpin turns.

Still, Tolentino, who once edited this kind of writing for The Hairpin and Jezebel, found herself occasionally nostalgic for the authorial voices that developed during the personal essay’s heyday.

The riders were flying down hairpin bends down the Col de l’Iseran – the Tour’s highest point at 9,090 feet – when a hailstorm hit lower down the valley.

These serpentine tracks, arched bridges, and hairpin turns are feats of engineering.

Chinese scientists have now developed a nanoplatform that selectively delivers small hairpin RNA transcription templates and chemotherapeutics into multidrug-resistant tumors.

I became a loyal lurker in 2011, shifting my blog loyalties from Jezebel to the Hairpin overnight.

The hairpin at Laguna Seca in 2013.

The researchers' new structure self-assembles into hairpin shapes, resulting in acid-lined channels that allow for efficient transport of protons across the electrolyte.

There would, thus, be safer access to Miżieb, eliminating the need for drivers to navigate through the existing hairpin bend, the spokesman said.

After the wedding ceremony, the husband should put the hairpin back into his spouse’s hair.

A hairpin patent was issued to Kelly Chamandy in 1925.

At the time of an engagement, the fiancée may take a hairpin from her hair and give it to her fiancé as a pledge: this can be seen as a reversal of the Western tradition, such as the future groom presents an engagement ring to his betrothed.