The phrase "as I flip" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an action of turning or changing something, often in a casual or informal context.
Example: "As I flip through the pages of the magazine, I come across an interesting article."
Alternatives: "while I turn" or "as I browse".
This, I think, as I flip through my old diaries, is the best identity crisis ever.
But, as I flip through my ticket stubs from 2015, because my apartment doesn't have room for Playbills, what lingers are those moments of transcendent joy, heartbreak, and sheer craft that we call showstoppers.
As I flip from channel to channel, the question becomes inescapable: why have all these people flown here from all over the world to do all this stuff and why is the BBC using every last commentator and presenter it employs – I bet even Tony Gubba's out there somewhere – to show it all to me at 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning?
When I open a file folder of accumulated email, I remain unmoved as I flip through pages of bloodless, typed uniformity.
As I flip through Facebook, there are tons of companies that want to solicit my opinion, on virtually EVERYTHING, in the name of marketing data.
Still, as I flip-flopped my way uptown, I had an epiphany, though not the kind that people usually have after a potentially life-threatening experience.
Nearly a foot of powder had blanketed the property, and as I flip-flopped my way up a pine ridge into the Wenatchee National Forest, part of a 2.2 million-acre expanse, it was easy to see why the Schmidts had said goodbye to corporate America -- Brad was an ad agency photographer; Kathy, a bank executive -- and reimagined their lives here.
Then I felt a sharp slap against my nose and cheeks as I flipped over.
As I flipped through cable channels over the last week, the government shutdown was viewed through remarkably different prisms.
But as I flipped through "Recipes from an Italian Summer," a new cookbook from Phaidon, I was sure it was not going to let me down.
I thanked her for her concern and went back to a favorite pastime — criticizing talking heads as I flipped back and forth between Fox and MSNBC.
