hairpins in English

noun

1

a U-shaped pin for fastening the hair.

Spark some interest with an ornate hairpin , barrette or ponytail holder like these 24k gold-dipped pieces.

Use "hairpins" in a sentence

1. Figure 12-21 Hairpins and Cruciforms

2. Hairclips, Barrettes and hairpins at wholesale prices

3. These hairpins do not assort with the samples on the card.

4. This allows new opened hairpins to be added to a growing complex.

5. She dealt with a stray wisp of grey hair and pushed her hairpins firmly into place.

6. Much jewellery, especially gemstones and hairpins[http://Sentencedict.com], was itself used as a vehicle for portraiture.

7. She had a bun of hair at her nape from which stuck out carved hairpins, thinner than split matchsticks.

8. Adar RNA editing enzymes are high-affinity dsRNA-binding proteins that deaminate adenosines to inosines in pre-mRNA hairpins and also exert editing-independent effects

9. When I was straightening up the couch, I found six hairpins, a lipstick a pair of false eyelashes and a swizzle stick from the Stork Club.

10. Cruciforms are seen as clear-cut extrusions on the DNA filament with the lengths of the arms consistent with the size of the hairpins expected from a 106 bp inverted repeat

11. ‘The results suggest that long inverted repeats can form hairpins or Cruciforms when they are located within a region of the helix backbone that is intrinsically curved, leading to large mobility anomalies in polyacrylamide gels.’

12. The Brahmsian Hairpin The Brahmsian Hairpin Kim, David Hyun-Su; 2012-07-01 00:00:00 Abstract Hairpins, the notation symbols < and >, are today universally accepted as equivalent to the markings crescendo and diminuendo , calling for an increase or decrease in volume