Crossword-Solution: SWITCHBACK 10 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 26

We have 13 clues for the answer “SWITCHBACK”

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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
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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.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
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.
The Aeroplane Speaks H. Barber 1997
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.
An Open-Eyed Conspiracy W. D. Howells 2000
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.
Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions Mary Roberts Rinehart 2005
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.
Seven Little Australians Ethel Sybil Turner 2003

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…
John Piper A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
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.
Claire Cameron
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, WP.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (2003–2014).