How to Use flip off in a Sentence

flip off

verb
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  • Bodies flip off the stage as dozens push and punch their way through the pit.
    — Ian Blau, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Panic set in during the flip off the wall making the turn in the pool.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2021
  • However, carriage further back on the train were flipped off the tracks by the storm.
    — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 30 Apr. 2024
  • The 44-year-old Miller, who won seven Olympic medals, did a midair flip off the mound before delivering the pitch to the plate.
    — Steve Overbey, ajc, 27 June 2021
  • Often, neurons in one part of the brain would flip off while their peers in another area would stay on.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2011
  • To eat by flickering light, the overhead bulbs flipped off, the room brightened by candles and the Christmas tree.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Standing over him was a man flipping off the camera, Roman said.
    — Brittany Morris, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Two men drove past on motorcycles and flipped off the activists.
    — Jason Kyle Howard, The New Republic, 25 June 2023
  • Go to the main electrical panel and flip off the circuit breaker that’s feeding power to the light switch.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 4 July 2020
  • The ad shows Sykes, a former state gymnastics champion, flipping off the end of a balance beam.
    — Audrey Baker, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 July 2024
  • The day after posting with his wife, Wahlberg uploaded a video of his son doing a front flip off their boat into the serene blue water.
    — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • That’s a worthy impulse, but reverence doesn’t suit a novel where the main character spends most of his time flipping off the universe.
    — Vulture, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Various snaps showed the families posing amid a stunning backdrop of deep-blue water and a clear sky, doing flips off the boat, sunbathing and more.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The other image finds Cabello donning an off-the-shoulder white top while flipping off the camera and flashing a subtle smirk.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Sandlin points out that for a human to, say, reverse out of a front flip off a diving board would seem impossible, but cats do it every single time.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2020
  • In Texas, a woman was killed last July after her husband flipped off a car that was driving aggressively.
    — Norman Miller, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Related Elsewhere, the teen alt sensation goes for a joy ride in an unmarked moving truck and takes turns with her friends flipping off the handheld camera with glee.
    — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Portnoy is trying to sell T-shirts featuring Redd’s drawing of himself flipping off the Barstool founder, and news sites across the country have pounced on the spectacle.
    — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But instituting a plan like that requires planning from electric companies, and is by no means as easy as flipping off a switch, Wara says.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The cheesy line caps an ad for her congressional campaign and features Sykes, a former gymnast, doing a forward flip off a balance beam.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2022
  • One showed a woman flipping off police at at labor day event in Germany and another was a commercial stock clip of a molotov cocktail.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 24 July 2023
  • In the kitchen, Lindsey makes the smaller pies in an Insignia air fryer, which cook with astronaut precision and give off so little heat that often Lindsey will flip off the old-school ovens to avoid the summer kitchen night sweats.
    — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Cruise-Gulyas had flipped off Minard, a police officer, after being pulled over for speeding and given a ticket for a minor offense.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 10 Feb. 2024
  • But immunity isn’t a binary switch that some party-crashing variant can flip off.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Smith and Madge declare in unison), the single uses backlash as fuel, lets Madonna flip off the world, and potentially gives Smith another club-thumping hit.
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 9 June 2023
  • Stevens retired the side in order in the second inning, needed just six pitches to complete the third, made an acrobatic underhanded flip off a bunt to throw out a runner at home in the fourth, then sailed through the fifth without any crises.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 14 June 2021
  • Instrumentalists, backup singers, dancers and Pink herself bounced around, rode on flamingo scooters and flipped off trampolines.
    — Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 27 July 2023
  • Listen to this article A man groped a teenage girl on an Upper West Side subway platform before flipping off a camera when a stranger snapped a picture of him, according to authorities.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
  • After his communications were cut off, James Crumbley flipped off the prosecution in court.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
  • With each gentle swing, I’m transported back to elementary school recess, hanging from jungle gyms and doing backward flips off the horizontal bars.
    — Lindsay Geller, Women's Health, 18 May 2023

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