How to Use flipper in a Sentence

flipper

noun

• The south gate acts as the head and the west and east gates as the flippers.
  — Story, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
• The war over bat flips is, for the most part, done, and the flippers have won.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 11 June 2019
• The donuts kept breaking in half on the flipper part of the Robot.
  — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit, 19 Sep. 2017
• One of them wore only trunks, flippers and a snorkel mask most of the day.
  — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 9 Sep. 2017
• When the level starts, the pinball flipper on the left is blue, while the one on the right is red along with the fan.
  — Michael Moore, The Verge, 23 June 2019
• The house flipper had a fever that reached 104 degrees.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• Elio weighs about 30 pounds and now sports a red tag on his left front flipper.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2021
• One of the students hit a switch and the flippers made a paddling motion.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Around the time the flippers revved up a year later, home prices resumed their rise.
  — Peter Rudegeair, WSJ, 19 June 2019
• Here are a 13 facts about one-half of our favorite house flippers.
  — Eileen Reslen, Good Housekeeping, 4 Jan. 2018
• Zahler trapped it on a flipper, aimed, flipped, and then watched as his hopes vanished.
  — Bill Lascher, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2020
• Sea lions are able to walk on land with their flippers.
  — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 29 Feb. 2024
• The adorable penguin flaps its flippers and dances, bobbing from side to side.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
• The plastic was wrapped around one front and one hind flipper, and left her struggling.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• First Cookie helps me strap the monofin — like a flipper for both of your feet — around my ankles.
  — Elizabeth Kiefer, The Know, 17 Aug. 2019
• Covid-19 served as the flipper to the IT team pinball and the velocity and pace has, for too many, not slowed down.
  — Paige Francis, Forbes, 13 June 2021
• In fact, for top-tier flippers, the profits and the production are down to a science.
  — Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
• The MirageDrive works like a penguin's rear flippers do, to propel the kayak through the water.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2018
• A house flipper had knocked on their door and offered them cash to get out ASAP.
  — Jen A. Miller, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
• The 42-year-old house-flipper has been rocking some new longer hair in recent months.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2017
• Paces all the time, often with his flippers folded behind his back, in the style of an ice-skater.
  — Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• So to avoid a mercy loss, Phelps will wear a monofin, a type of flipper that could boost his speed by a few miles per hour.
  — Emily Barone, Time, 19 July 2017
• The buckling of the spring pushes a flipper connected to the bottom of the spring forward.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2024
• Altamaha-ha is said to be 30-feet long, with flippers like a seal, much like the carcass found on the beach.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Home flippers are buying up a greater share of home sales than a year ago -- 5.9 percent, up from 5.4.
  — R.a. Schuetz, Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2019
• The flipper mechanism is easy to open with one hand—while the other hand wrangles with a duck.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2020
• One night, a nesting turtle crawled back toward the surf with a large hook stuck in her front flipper.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Dead sea turtles lay on the beach—their flippers mangled, bites taken out of their throats, blood sprayed across the sand.
  — Byrichard Pallardy, science.org, 28 June 2024
• Scott Disick‘s children are scoring huge now that their dad is a big-time house flipper.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• Each enormous flipper can measure half the length of a telephone pole.
  — Elin Kelsey, Smithsonian, 18 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024