Sentence examples for fillip buying from inspiring English sources
Investors who were late to the rally seem to have given bank shares an extra fillip, buying them because their ups and downs amplify those of the economy.
This time last year a cold snap gave retailers a sales fillip as consumers bought jackets and knitwear.
Changes to inheritance tax and the extension of right to buy for housing association tenants will provide a further fillip to demand.
With the BBC and the rest of the radio industry keen to encourage people to buy more digital radios, it could be just the fillip they require.
Simple economics are blamed - "the money to buy good horses isn't up here" is a regular refrain - so what a fillip a big run from a 'local' at the region's major national hunt fixture would provide.
Growth was boosted by the "cash for clunkers" scheme to encourage consumers to buy new cars and by government tax breaks for house purchases, though today's figures indicate that the fillip from the government was slightly smaller than initially thought.
A droll fillip to the high-school visit by Sarkozy and his entourage: there, the director Claude Lelouch praised the initiative, and said, of the movies being made available to students, All these things, I stole them, because, as a child, I couldn't afford to buy a ticket and I often went in through the fire exit.
He also suggested a fillip.
That gave Congress a much-needed fillip.
