Sentence examples for chicane from inspiring English sources

"chicane" is a correct and usable word in written English
The word is a noun meaning an obstacle or impediment designed to slow something down or prevent progress. For example, "The agreement contained several legal chicanes that made it difficult to move forward".

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chicane

verb

To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge.

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CONTEMPLATING the victorious allies at the Versailles peace conference in 1919, Keynes observed that "reparation was their main excursion into the economic field, and they settled it as a problem of theology, of politics, of electoral chicane, from every point of view except that of the economic future of the states whose destiny they were handling".

Other bonuses, which did not count toward game, were awarded for a side holding three or more honours (ace, king, queen, jack, and 10) of the trump suit or, at no-trump declarations, three or more aces; for making slams (12 or 13 tricks won); and for chicane (a player's holding no card of the trump suit).

Force India's Nico Hulkenberg will start last after he failed to set a time in qualifying after slowing and stopping on the escape road next to the first chicane.

The Pole was on his tail through the first chicane before the safety car was deployed after Giancarlo Fisichella was launched into the air, ending the Italian's race.

Race two was settled in a fine contest between Yamaha team-mates Laverty and Melandri, but not before Biaggi was penalised for cutting a chicane.

"I'll have to make sure we're not wheel-to-wheel," he added when asked whether he would trust Rosberg in similar circumstances going into the chicane at Monza next week.

On the 22nd lap Jules Bianchi had parked his Marussia with mechanical problems on the rise to the NGK chicane, where momentarily it caught fire, and two laps after the Frenchman had abandoned it there the red and black car began to roll slowly back down the hill, across the track.

But he turned a tricky corner at the Ageas Bowl on that Sunday (and probably negotiated a devilish chicane as well).

It was aided in part, however, by two errors Rosberg made into the first chicane at Monza, the second coming when the 29-year-old German was being hounded by Hamilton.

A final chance at redemption was spoiled when he encountered his former friend Adrian Sutil in the first chicane.

The Dutchman passed his team-mate in the closing stages with a fine move into the chicane.

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