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Definition of Switchbacked
1. switchback [v] - See also: switchback
Lexicographical Neighbors of Switchbacked
Literary usage of Switchbacked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1912)
"... the motor swayed and rolled over the uneven- ness of the hidden road, we slid
and slithered or buck jumped and switchbacked over them, too. ..."
2. The New Garden of Canada: By Pack-horse and Canoe Through Undeveloped New by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (1911)
"... switchbacked in a gentle manner. The gloom of the forest gave way to a gay
brilliancy, for the wild tiger-lily here flourishes luxuriantly, ..."
3. America as I Saw it: Or America Revisited by Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1913)
"One's heart aches to see beautiful motor-cars switchbacked over holes in the
roadway, or across loose boards laid carelessly down. ..."
4. Afoot Through the Kashmir Valleys by Marion Doughty (1901)
"A few miles of very rough walking on a track that switchbacked with a violence
that forced one's knees into the condition of a cab-horse's of several ..."
5. The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Curious by Gilbert Frankau (1921)
"Either side of him flat ridges switchbacked to blank sky-lines; in front bulked
an egg — an enormous egg of blackest granite! The "egg," fully twenty feet ..."
6. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1912)
"... the motor swayed and rolled over the uneven- ness of the hidden road, we slid
and slithered or buck jumped and switchbacked over them, too. ..."
7. The New Garden of Canada: By Pack-horse and Canoe Through Undeveloped New by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (1911)
"... switchbacked in a gentle manner. The gloom of the forest gave way to a gay
brilliancy, for the wild tiger-lily here flourishes luxuriantly, ..."
8. America as I Saw it: Or America Revisited by Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1913)
"One's heart aches to see beautiful motor-cars switchbacked over holes in the
roadway, or across loose boards laid carelessly down. ..."
9. Afoot Through the Kashmir Valleys by Marion Doughty (1901)
"A few miles of very rough walking on a track that switchbacked with a violence
that forced one's knees into the condition of a cab-horse's of several ..."
10. The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Curious by Gilbert Frankau (1921)
"Either side of him flat ridges switchbacked to blank sky-lines; in front bulked
an egg — an enormous egg of blackest granite! The "egg," fully twenty feet ..."
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