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Definition of Switchbacking
1. switchback [v] - See also: switchback
Lexicographical Neighbors of Switchbacking
Literary usage of Switchbacking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"... alongside gurgling streams, up and down switchbacking passes, and generally
setting the standard for what scenic roads ought to be. ..."
2. Further India: Being the Story of Exploration from the Earliest Times in by Hugh Charles Clifford (1904)
"Switchbacking over hilly ground the explorers rejoined the direct track from
Hong-pu-so to Ta-li-fu, which they had temporarily abandoned, ..."
3. The New Garden of Canada: By Pack-horse and Canoe Through Undeveloped New by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (1911)
"Twisting, turning, and switchbacking over desolate country where only the fire
weed grows, for some three hours, brought us to a sudden dip leading to the ..."
4. The Long Road to Baghdad by Edmund Candler (1919)
"bettum, sailing when the wind was favourable, or on horseback, or by motor where
there was a track, switchbacking over the innumerable bridges of the ..."
5. My Friend the Chauffeur by Charles Norris Williamson (1905)
"... bul we threaded our way out to it again, after switchbacking up and down an
undulating road close to the frontier of Herzegovina; and at the end of a ..."
6. On the Cars and Off: Being the Journal of a Pilgrimage Along the Queen's by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1895)
"You realise for the first time what a cricket ball feels like when it is caught
by a man who knows how to catch. For a sensation neither switchbacking nor ..."
7. The Glamour of Prospecting: Wanderings of a South African Prospector in by Frederick Carruthers Cornell (1920)
"Here the going, after the switchbacking of the previous twelve hours, was easy
and pleasant, and we climbed thankfully into the waggon, and had just fallen ..."
8. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"... alongside gurgling streams, up and down switchbacking passes, and generally
setting the standard for what scenic roads ought to be. ..."
9. Further India: Being the Story of Exploration from the Earliest Times in by Hugh Charles Clifford (1904)
"Switchbacking over hilly ground the explorers rejoined the direct track from
Hong-pu-so to Ta-li-fu, which they had temporarily abandoned, ..."
10. The New Garden of Canada: By Pack-horse and Canoe Through Undeveloped New by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (1911)
"Twisting, turning, and switchbacking over desolate country where only the fire
weed grows, for some three hours, brought us to a sudden dip leading to the ..."
11. The Long Road to Baghdad by Edmund Candler (1919)
"bettum, sailing when the wind was favourable, or on horseback, or by motor where
there was a track, switchbacking over the innumerable bridges of the ..."
12. My Friend the Chauffeur by Charles Norris Williamson (1905)
"... bul we threaded our way out to it again, after switchbacking up and down an
undulating road close to the frontier of Herzegovina; and at the end of a ..."
13. On the Cars and Off: Being the Journal of a Pilgrimage Along the Queen's by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1895)
"You realise for the first time what a cricket ball feels like when it is caught
by a man who knows how to catch. For a sensation neither switchbacking nor ..."
14. The Glamour of Prospecting: Wanderings of a South African Prospector in by Frederick Carruthers Cornell (1920)
"Here the going, after the switchbacking of the previous twelve hours, was easy
and pleasant, and we climbed thankfully into the waggon, and had just fallen ..."
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