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Example sentences for "sharp turn"

  • The stream took a sharp turn at that spot--it positively doubled.

  • Another great sand beach was to be seen on the right of the river, where it described a sharp turn to 30° b.

  • Lower down, the river described a sharp turn, and there we met another most dangerous rapid.

  • The latter river at that spot described a sharp turn from 20° b.

  • By a sharp turn in the thread begin winding over the reed and raffia to the point.

  • When a new thread is needed lay the end of the old thread along the reed and place the new thread over it, and by a sharp turn in the thread, wind once or twice over both, and continue the stitch as before.

  • Lay the end of the raffia to the end of the reed, along the reed and around the bend, and by a sharp turn in the thread wind four or five times over the raffia, covering the bend in the reed.

  • Just below this break the scene changed as we made a sharp turn to the left.

  • At the end or sharp turn of the sheer wall we found a fair camp, with driftwood enough for that night.

  • A sharp turn to the left soon brought us to the end of this ridge, close to the bottom of a smooth, sheer wall.

  • The river had taken a sharp turn to the south soon after passing the post-office, heading directly towards the mountains.

  • The latter drops to an extensive and dreary plain, Traeth Mawr, across which the road winds with many a sharp turn.

  • The road from Haverfordwest takes a sharp turn to the right upon leaving the town, and passes over the railway-lines.

  • He was brought up with a sharp turn durin' the retreat, bein' so stuffy that he kept well in the rear, instead of pushin' ahead as he might have done.

  • The schooner would be enough to bring us up with a sharp turn, therefore I hold that it don't make any difference how many frigates are behind her," Darius cried.

  • At the nozzle end there is a sharp turn in the piping so that the tip is very nearly at right angles to the main pipes.

  • They could be turned so as to keep the aeroplane balanced when making a sharp turn or when struck by a gust of wind.

  • Of course, in making a sharp turn he uses his warping wheel as well as his direction wheel, because, as previously explained, it is necessary to incline the machine over toward the inside of the curve desired to be made.

  • In rounding a sharp turn I did just what I had been dreading,--ran aground.

  • Rounding a sharp turn we would see before us a long slope of angry water, with huddling waves and frequent rocks; and at the foot of the slope three or four great white "ripples" foaming and roaring in the sun.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always felt; clean towel; commonly understood; glacial deposits; great fish; literary society; make further; metal plate; more distinct; pretty close; sharp bark; sharp contrast; sharp edge; sharp exclamation; sharp fight; sharp fire; sharp frost; sharp look; sharp lookout; sharp major; sharp teeth; sharply defined; sharply pointed; stiff batter; twenty leagues; what has been done