three-point turn
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Esser got back in her car, made a three-point turn and drove toward Victor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
“It does feel like this EV market has really been like ‘hurry up and wait’” This is partly because the act of transforming century-old industry is like making a three-point turn in a cruise ship.
From The Verge ● Dec. 21, 2021
As one of McCarthy’s characters avers during a disquisition on the three-point turn that killed Franz Ferdinand: “I’m not saying anything. Just tracing out a set of lines; a fracture network. That’s all I do.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2021
Harris was driving a black Porsche GT3 Touring on the A466 near Tintern in Monmouthshire when he crashed into a pick-up truck doing a three-point turn.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2018
At the end of our cul-de-sac the driver, a woman, did a three-point turn, stalled once, and drove off up Kingfisher Meadows.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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