Sentence examples for flip against from inspiring English sources

The phrase "flip against" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to quickly or suddenly change one's position or stance and become opposed or resistant to someone or something. Example: The crowd began to cheer and show support for the politician, but as soon as he made a controversial statement, some of the audience members flipped against him and started booing.

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No baseball fan can ever forget 'the flip' against the Oakland A's in the playoffs.

Such an agreement is highly unusual, legal experts say, and is being used as a pressure point on Mr. Martoma in an effort to get him to "flip" against Mr. Cohen.

Despite the aces, Vandeweghe, the granddaughter of the former New York Knick Ernie Vandeweghe, struggled to hold her serves, and didn't make much of a dent in the ninth-seeded Stosur's service games – a dynamic she knows she has to flip against the game's better players.

When Wink attempted a monkey flip against Queasy, Lawler blocked the move and helped Queasy to pin Wink.

Flintridge Prep 45, Webb 26: Luck had already smiled on the Rebels earlier Friday when they won an advance coin flip against Westridge for the fourth-place tiebreaker in the Prep League.

Crystal Black-Davis had the loving marriage (she and her husband Anthony Davis just celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary, and have been together for 15 years), the successful career (she's owner of a gourmet food marketing firm) and the years were starting to make that irreversible flip against her if she wanted to become a mother (as everyone -- including her doctor -- reminded her).

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And, of course, there was the Sunni Awakening in Iraq, where former insurgents flipped against the group that called itself "al Qaeda in Iraq," and joined the government.

No matter how much planning we put into it, no matter how many times we assured ourselves that everything is going to be OK, we too got flashes of the fear so characteristic of today's drone misconceptions, only flipped against some serious odds.

The inset in Figure 2A shows the spectrum from a single plug flipped against the sum of spectra from several plugs illustrating the reproducibility of the protein charge states formed by droplet ionization.

What's more is that once trained, armed and equipped with knowledge of US strategies in the area, there is no guarantee that they may not flip back against us, or use those assets against us at a later point.

For maximum access to the third row, the seat cushions flip up against the seatbacks in a smart clamshell arrangement.

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