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  • noun Plural form of kerb.

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Examples

  • I used the opening session to learn the track: it's quite a strange circuit as there aren't too many corners, but it's quite technical and the kerbs are a little strange as you have to find a very precise line.

    Pitpass - the latest hottest F1 & A1 GP news 2010

  • You still weren't sure if some of the kerbs were a little bit greasy.

    Grandprix.com Current News 2009

  • The kerbs are the same for all the teams and drivers, so it makes no difference.

    Planet F1 | Formula 1 News 2009

  • 2010 Italian Grand Prix, and as is the tradition the kerbs are a changin '... again.

    PaddockTalk Racing News 2010

  • You would have to be, there are longitudinal 'kerbs' which retain the cobbles at the edges and these have split and cracked, leaving lethally sharp shards of stone, just waiting to tear the sidewalls out of tyres.

    PezCyclingNews.com 2009

  • The Police Cycle Training Doctrine, which comes in two volumes, gives officers advice on how to balance so they do not fall off, how to brake and how to avoid obstacles such as kerbs and rocks.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • In another half hour the student and graduate ingress would be in full swing as young people poured out of classrooms and laboratories from Science Hill to the secretarial colleges on State, and the kerbs would fill up with VW bugs and clunkers as those too far afield to walk home grabbed parking.

    Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010

  • They pursued the automaton through the quiet Chelsea street; though it moved with surprising speed, it shattered kerbs and snapped limbs from chestnut trees, and they had no difficulty following it to a columned building, domed in the new Classical manner.

    BLANKENSHIP & DAWES IN: CHRONO-CONUNDRUM! • by Jens Rushing 2008

  • Yet, for all our warm feelings towards the grape and grain, we can also be found railing against the drunken teenagers vomiting over kerbs in our town centres on a Saturday night.

    I like a drink, but collectively we have a problem 2010

  • Without a separation of traffic streams from pedestrians or the building of raising kerbs, the carnage will continue, the report says.

    Road deaths among children spiralling in poorest nations, says report 2010

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