272 examples of flipping in sentences

she said, contemplating and flipping it with her finger-tip.

" "I've already promised you that," said Crewe, flipping another sovereign from his sovereign case and handing it to Taylor, "and I'll give you five shillings for the glove.

It was delivered without notes (having evidently been learnt by heart), in rather a monotonous way; with a sort of little action, all confined to a slight movement of the hands and flipping of the fingers....

[Coll.], flip one's wig

[Coll.], flip one's lid [Coll.], flip out

[Coll.], flip one's lid [Coll.], flip out

[Coll.], flip one's bush [Coll.].

Oh, that monotonous flip-flap of the water, that slow heaving of the boat!

And that night Jim Roberts took an unexpected turn for the worse and died, foiled of that last highly anticipated spice of malice in flipping the coin that was to decide Alan Massey's fate.

" "Somebody go after him," suggested Ormsby, flipping a coin; and a boy started on a run.

It calls for deep soul-searching on the part of Mr Narayan to find out why scores of journalists have resigned from the Herald since October 10, 1983 the date which the paper was launched... ON THE FLIP side, Rajan at least in his early phase had the ability of encouraging his staff.

"Flip; a mixed liquor, consisting of beer and spirit sweetened."

Conversation turned on the use of stimulants as an aid to intellectual and physical effort, and Mr. Gladstone's historic egg-flip was cited.

As she was too much encumbered for a curtsey, she pretended not to see him and his friend at all, and so passed, flip-flop, within three yards of them, onward down towards the village.

Flipping the match over the veranda railing, and expelling a prodigious cloud of smoke, the novelist said grimly, "And theremy fellow artistgo your masters.

Flip and the cows.

DENNIS, MORGAN. Flip.

Flip and the cows.

Flip and the cows.

Flip and the cows.

Then he darts out, seizes one, and returns to the same perch, flipping the tail, raising the little crest, and calling 'Phoebep-h-o-e-b-e,' in a very anxious voice.

He had no time to dodge; there was a thud as it struck, a smothered cry, and the saddle was empty, a revolver flipping into the air, as the man went plunging over.

The bids at an auction or the flipping of pennies are exact sciences compared with the relation between crime and punishment and the process of arriving at the right penalty.

Charming Billy, his face quite pale, turned his head cautiously as though he feared too abrupt a glance would drive her away, and looked at her standing there with her gray felt hat tilted against the sun, flipping her gloves nervously against her skirt.

" "They were all taken away by the people who bought them," announced Sime, after a great flipping of ink spattered pages, "All except one.

272 examples of  flipping  in sentences