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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
switchback .
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Examples
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The trail snaked around the side of the mountain and then switchbacked over the top.
Here's another chance to tell your interesting hunting or war stories. 2009
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Yet that "same" does carry a caveat. 24 is a thriller, elongated and switchbacked to fill 24 episodes, some more successfully than others, and it walks a silk-thread tightrope of plausibility.
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The trail snaked around the side of the mountain and then switchbacked over the top.
Here's another chance to tell your interesting hunting or war stories. 2009
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The road switchbacked up the nearest hump of the Dos Jorobas.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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The road switchbacked up the nearest hump of the Dos Jorobas.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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The road switchbacked up the nearest hump of the Dos Jorobas.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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The "Burma Grade" is the switchbacked dirt road that starts at Briceburg on the north side of the river where HWY 140 and the Merced River first intersect as you travel east from Mariposa.
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The switchbacked grade on Bull Creek Rd is also known as the Burma Grade, pretty much as you said.
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I was at the second landing, where the stairs switchbacked, before I heard, over the noise which was masking my descent, the sound of several feet ascending the stair I was about to step around the corner onto.
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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I remember thinking, as we switchbacked up and up and up through the hills, higher yet than the 2,200 meters (about 5000 feet) of the city of Guanajuato, that the landscape was at once ferocious and tender.
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