How to Use flipper in a Sentence

flipper

noun
Definition of flippernext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Scott Disick‘s children are scoring huge now that their dad is a big-time house flipper.
    — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • But the learning curve for a first-time home flipper can be expensive.
    — R.a. Schuetz, Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Suffice it to say that the transition from New Kid on the Block to house flipper is quite the intriguing one.
    — Danielle Harling, House Beautiful, 21 Mar. 2021
  • The Dividend has opens one handed with a flipper and locks in place with a steel liner.
    — Matt Foster, Outdoor Life, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Another sign that a flipper is reputable is a clean and tidy job site.
    — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 25 May 2023
  • To see a dugong is to want to hug a dugong, with its round body, gently curved flippers and gigantic smiling face.
    — Danna Staaf, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Last month, the duo unveiled the brand’s first items: small 18-karat-gold charms shaped like a diving mask and snorkeling flipper.
    — Kurt Soller M.h. Miller Angela Koh Rachel Felder Chris Schalkx, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Baez points to his catcher at home plate before applying the tag at second base and is among the most elite bat-flippers in the game.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 17 July 2019
  • The whale was doing what’s called pec-slapping, or slapping the water with its pectoral flippers, which are the two fins in front.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Rather than process a deed transfer and sell to a flipper, Sloan gives up on the money and heads out, telling his henchman to kill Nick, who's promptly shot in the back.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 15 July 2019
  • Sometimes the homeowner has died and their family must pay the house flipper to release the claim.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 2 Aug. 2023
  • These early seals had legs for walking instead of flippers, a long tail, and were much longer, and looked a bit like present-day otters.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The data provider believes that flippers can still make money.
    — Ed Leefeldt, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2019

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