FLIP in a Sentence

Learn FLIP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

23 example sentences for FLIP, such as:

1. Oh, flip, I've missed the bus.
2. He flipped his sleeves up under his coat.
3. She flipped for his red hair and freckles.
4. The man flipped at a fly with a fly swatter.
5. He will flip if he hear that he is laid off.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flip
 v.  go mad, go crazy; turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse; toss with a sharp movement
Classic Sentence:
1  We had a hot supper on the occasion, graced by the inevitable roast fowl, and we had some flip to finish with.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
2  I boarded her once at midnight somewhere off the Patagonian coast, and drank good flip down in the forecastle.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
3  And the Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaires and a whole clan named Blackbuck who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  He flipped his sleeves up under his coat.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  She flipped back the edges of the letters, looking at the dates, remembering their contents.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  He flipped into bed with a solemn back-somersault and a ludicrous kick of his heels as he tucked his legs under the blankets.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I.
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The trade deficit is the flip side of a rapidly expanding economy.
2  Oh, flip, I've missed the bus.
3  He will flip if he hear that he is laid off.
4  The boss flipped out when he heard you lost the account.
5  When the great fish flipped over on its back,we knew it was almost dead.
6  He flipped the top off the bottle and poured himself a drink.
7  The diver flipped over backwards into the water.
8  She flipped through a magazine to fill in the time.
9  The man flipped at a fly with a fly swatter.
10  She flipped for his red hair and freckles.
11  He flipped the lid open and looked inside the case.
12  He flipped on the radio to get the hourly news broadcast.
13  They flipped a coin to decide who would go first.
14  He called for elections officials in all states to immediately impound any voting machine that has flipped votes from one candidate to another.
15  If I doze off and stop flipping the pages, the boy goes to sleep too.