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Example sentences for "flipping"

Lexicographically close words:
flippant; flippantly; flipped; flipper; flippers; flips; flirt; flirtation; flirtations; flirtatious
  1. A little that way," he said, flipping his lighter for her.

  2. While the others waited, holding their breath, he stepped through the glass entry doors, feigning a jaunty pace and flipping the pass impatiently against the leg of his uniform.

  3. It was all that kept it from flipping as the sudden turbulence assaulted the main rotor.

  4. Briefly flipping to a less abusive persona, Rama announced that the nineteen women also happened to be his best students.

  5. I thought about how, during the trip, Rama seemed to be flipping out of control.

  6. But he managed, by flipping between abusive and supportive personas, to keep me off balance on an emotionally gut-wrenching roller coaster ride.

  7. And, flipping the ash off his cigarette on to the tray by Fiorsen's elbow, he nodded and went.

  8. William Clark ceased breaking bark between his fingers and flipping away the pieces.

  9. Let me see, let me see," said the Lab Coat Man, flipping through the pages on his clipboard.

  10. Patience, Mr. Sigger," replied the Lab Coat Man, flipping back to his top sheet.

  11. They're soaking wet, and I've got fifteen live gold-fish inside my trousers flipping around, and rasping the skin with their fins enough to set a man crazy.

  12. The doctor leaned over the desk, flipping through the files until he came to the section he wanted.

  13. Any kind of pressure will do as far as the outside of the body is concerned," answered Anti, flipping back the helmet.

  14. They were close to the ground now, flipping along like cotton dusters on a Texas plantation.

  15. Flipping a picture of Hitler aside, he exposed the microphone in the wall.

  16. If I had only in this course of habit which also included if it was dark, flipping the switch on and flipping it off.

  17. He put his palms up, fingers flipping open in a mute "Why not?

  18. He followed it up with an incongruously comic coin-flipping motion to the back of his hand.

  19. In this case, one remains dry but runs the risk of accidentally flipping one's locks down into the stench of the drain and thereby defeating the initial purpose of washing the hair.

  20. The mail had arrived, and he would look through the cards, reading slowly the message or poem, then flipping to the front of the card once again.

  21. She watched as he shoved the steering lever to port, flipping the rudder to maneuver around the reefs at the edge of the bay, then reached for his pewter tankard, its sides dark with grease.

  22. As the room grew silent, he coughed at the harshness of the liquor, then began to toy with the lid, flipping the thumb mechanism attached to the hinged top and watching it flap open and shut.

  23. She sat telling of the new mare's wonderfully correct saddle gaits, flipping her ungloved hand with the gauntlet she had just pulled off.

  24. Why, Maggie," he said playfully flipping the tip of her ear as he passed her.

  25. Yet Dolly seemed not to be harmed by it, for there she was as large as life, tied to a stump not far beyond, and flipping the flies away with her tail.

  26. Kronski walked over to where letter sized cards were flipping from a slot into a small bin.

  27. The rollers kept whirring and the cards flipping along with a whispering sound.

  28. I can't keep on flipping at you all night.

  29. He had lost both legs at the age of seven, "flipping cars.

  30. The Scarecrow stopped short, for the oldest Prince had jerked a book out of his sleeve and was flipping over the pages industriously.

  31. Flipping on the switch that opened a circuit to an outside loud-speaker, he bellowed an order for the area to be cleared.

  32. Connel's hands flashed over the control panel of the ship, snapping switches, flipping levers, and turning dials in an effort to bring the ship to a smooth landing.

  33. Roger had done the same thing, flipping over and shooting up and away from the moving object.

  34. But perhaps they apprehended that it was merely a bridal party, and they were leaping all over the lake, flipping their tails in the sun, and scorning all the visible wiles.

  35. And you must know that the people dock two or three joints of the tail from their horses, to prevent them from flipping their riders, a thing which they consider very unseemly.

  36. But the more general practice is to loop up the tail in a knot, the object being to protect the rider, or rather his clothes, from the dirt with which they would otherwise be spattered from the flipping of the animal's tail.

  37. He scraped his feet and smirked at her, at the same time flipping a bean from between his thumb and finger.

  38. He occupied his first hour in slyly flipping wet-paper wads at a picture of Shakspere pinned above him on the wall.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flipping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.