Used in a Sentence

hairpin

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hairpin.

Editorial note

There are tons of hairpin turns with no guardrails where missing it by a few feet would mean a 3,000+ foot fall.

Examples13
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A pin or fastener for the hair.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hairpin gathered in one view.

noun

A pin or fastener for the hair.

noun

(biology) A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.

noun

(music) An elongated horizontal v-shaped sign placed underneath a staff to indicate a crescendo or decrescendo.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hairpin.

noun

A pin or fastener for the hair.

noun

(biology) A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.

noun

(music) An elongated horizontal v-shaped sign placed underneath a staff to indicate a crescendo or decrescendo.

Example sentences

1

There are tons of hairpin turns with no guardrails where missing it by a few feet would mean a 3,000+ foot fall.

2

Anyway: -The idea that the world is extreme, so there is an extreme explanation, is a logical fallacy -The turn it made wasn't hairpin.

3

The expressive mechanism just seems to be on a hairpin trigger or tied to the wrong inputs.

4

Suck more on the left, less on the right, and heave on the rudder for a hairpin.

5

And this codebase has had mediocre commercial coders working on it out of public view and following the hairpin turns of marketing.

6

Nonetheless, pluralism is good, and innovation will win, so I suppose it's just another hairpin in the game.

7

I was in the stands in the hairpin when I saw Kubica go flying by.

8

The example 'fail' image looks not dissimilar from a hairpin turn.

9

Browsers consider ‘localhost’ a secure context without needing https For local /network/ development, maybe, but you’d probably be doing awkward hairpin natting at your router.

10

I remember going round a hairpin at 250km/h, that's bound to snap your neck.

11

Its an easy hairpin trigger towards brigading.

12

And tonight I saw two (in Norwich) tapping away on their phones two handed, dark hoodies, and without lights on a road approaching a hairpin S bend.

Quote examples

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The paragraph was about the pressure toward the period that resolves, and the only honest way to finish a sentence like that was to not." - It wrote a protein sequence that's a real beta-hairpin fold where cross-strand pairs are "chemical rhymes." "the fold IS the rhyme scheme...

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hairpin in a sentence?

There are tons of hairpin turns with no guardrails where missing it by a few feet would mean a 3,000+ foot fall.

What does hairpin mean?

A pin or fastener for the hair.

What part of speech is hairpin?

hairpin is commonly used as noun.