Sentence examples for flick past from inspiring English sources

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The recently deceased flick past in a blur.

We can't just flick past the bits we don't like: we are confronted with discomfiting Bible passages, impenetrable mysteries, harrowing truths.

ANYONE LOOKING FOR entertaining television in Italy at the end of the day would do well to flick past the Milan football derby and "Italy's Next Top Model" and pick a political talk show instead.

Fans of the league have grown accustomed to having to flick past pages and pages of Aussie rules football, rugby and cricket articles before finding anything related to domestic soccer.

But the atomic unit of the card forces you to reckon with each piece of content for at least a moment before you flick past it, preventing it all from bleeding together into a single mind-numbing ribbon.

He was caught out by Browne when he tried to flick past him on the edge of his area only for the winger to recover with a sliding challenge as the Irishman threatened to pull the trigger.

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On his laptop, a grim parade of images flicks past.

It's the kind of title that Guardian readers barely notice, flicking past its colourful cover in search of the New Statesman or Private Eye.

As Rothbart walked through the park, his eyes scanned every bush and trash can, flicking past dozens of menus, flyers, paper plates, movie stubs, parking tickets, and A.T.M. receipts.

A Vine video is six seconds long, and it is meant to be flicked past in a stream; an Instagram photo is best viewed on a screen exactly as wide as that of an iPhone.

Would they have continued to invest in expensive investigative projects or long-form features when they knew for a fact most people flicked past to the celebrity gossip or sport instead?

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