The phrase "dipped past" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe something moving quickly and smoothly past a certain point or object. Example: The runner's feet barely touched the ground as she dipped past the other racers, determined to win the race.
Chris Young's 108th and final pitch on an overcast Sunday afternoon was a deft split-finger fastball that dipped past Washington Nationals second baseman Danny Espinosa for a called third strike.
Mr. Benson reminds us that it has been just 50 years since the first spacecraft waltzed with another planet, when an American Mariner probe dipped past Venus in December 1962.
Eighteen year-old Muirhead's 25-yard strike, his third senior goal, swerved and dipped past Motherwell goalkeeper Dan Twardzik.
He, "some 20 yards out", hit the ball first time, which dipped past the underside of the crossbar.
As she watches the red sun dip past the window of her home deep in a South Dakota valley, Beth Lone Eagle says she isn't prepared to see a tar sands pipeline tarnish any bit of "God's country".
It was Barry Robson's wicked delivery of a corner from the right - the ball hurtling and dipping past the massed defenders towards the far post - that allowed the towering Greece striker to make contact with his head from only three yards out, the ball being deflected over the line.
There, behind a wrought-iron replica of the gate at Buckingham Palace, guarded by a bloodhound and a white security guard who addresses him with "Yessir" and "Nawsir," a winding two-lane road leads through a forest of pine and live oak, dipping past a large man-made pond (soon to be banked with "six foot of concrete, so people can stand back off and fish"), to his residence.
The Atlanta Braves dipped into the past yesterday in their search for a fifth starter, signing Steve Avery to a minor league contract.
Sterling's form has dipped over the past couple of months, but he created Silva's goal in City's midweek win at Dynamo Kyiv with a low cross from the left.
The removal of chairman Jeremy Wray has only added fuel to the fire that Di Canio's future at the County Ground is in some doubt and while we're inclined to believe it all amounts to a storm in a teacup, it's hardly surprising that performances have dipped over the past few weeks.
Sure enough, hardback sales have dipped in the past 12 months but, in the same period, ebook sales have soared.
