Example Sentences

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A report filed by public safety staff at the institute said the cleaner thought they were flipping the breaker on when they actually turned it off, the New York Post reported,

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023

And by that, I mean they were flipping tables across the land a la Teresa Giudice circa 2008.

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2023

Back home in Hawaii, Faamatau’s parents, Margaret and Pio, were flipping through television channels when they heard from Diane Tagovailoa, the mother of Maryland quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa, another Terp from Hawaii.

From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2021

“Because she’s such an iconic movie star, if you lost the personal—or the person!—then you’d just feel like you were flipping through Architectural Digest,” Opie said.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017

As we were flipping through the stack the week after we got home, I picked out several to send to Martin.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda