flip through

Idioms  

1. Browse through, as in She flipped through the magazine while she waited. This expression uses flip in the sense of “turn over pages.”

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Example Sentences

We’re still picnicking under piñatas, and some of us still gather at newsstands to flip through artful magazines and meet like-minded strangers.

From Los Angeles Times

I flip through my favorite blue notebook, looking at all the daily checklists from the past few weeks.

From Literature

I grab the Emily Dickinson collection from Dad right before I leave and flip through it in the car.

From Literature

I flip through gardening magazines, thick bills, and flyers from local businesses—who knew there were so many businesses around Somewhere?

From Literature

McCord’s photograph is part of a larger interactive installation that includes a “visual diary” guests can flip through featuring photographs of her life over the decades paired with handwritten diary entries from 1977 to 2021.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• gather
• interpret
• know
• learn
• refer to
• scan
• see
• study
• translate
• view