Crossword-Solution: SWITCHBACK
We have 13 clues for the answer “SWITCHBACK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| *Sinuous mountain road | 1 answer |
| BIG dipper railway | 1 answer |
| Fairground ride is to revert to previous state | 1 answer |
| RAILWAY with series of alternate steep ascents and descents | 1 answer |
| ROAD with series of alternate steep ascents and descents | 1 answer |
| Route with alternating sharp ascents and descents | 1 answer |
| U-shaped bend in a road | 1 answer |
| Zigzag on a hike | 1 answer |
| Zigzagging road | 1 answer |
| rise and fall sharply | 1 answer |
| Zigzag trail up a mountain | 2 answers |
| Railway | 47 answers |
| Railroad | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECMEZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SWITCHBACK (5)
There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switchback—of a helpless headlong motion! I felt the same horrible anticipation, too, of an imminent smash.
First at its Maximum Angle, staggering along tail-down and just maintaining horizontal flight; then a dive at far over flying speed, finishing with a perfect loop; then sharp turns with attendant vertical “banks” and then a wonderful switchback flight, speeding down at a hundred and fifty miles an hour with short, exhilarating ascents at the rate of two thousand feet a minute! All the parts are now working well together.
That’s what they’ve come for.” We were passing the corner of a large enclosure which seems devoted in Saratoga to the most distracting of its pleasures, and I said: “Well, we might give them a turn on the circular railway or the switchback; or we could take them to the Punch and Judy drama, or get their fortunes told in the seeress’s tent, or let them fire in the shooting-gallery, or buy some sweet-grass baskets of the Indians; and there is the pop-corn and the lemonade.” “I will tell you what,” said Mrs.
The trail was now what he called a "switchback." Halfway up Aggie refused to go farther, but on looking back decided not to return either.
She spent a shilling of her money on the switchback railway, pronouncing the swift, bewildering motion "heavenly." The first journey made Pip feel sick, so he eschewed a repetition of it, and watched Judy go off from time to time, waving gaily from the perilous little car, almost with his heart in his mouth.
Quotes with SWITCHBACK (2)
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching pur…
I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, WP.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2003–2014).