Sentence examples for flipper from inspiring English sources

The word 'flipper' is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to an object or body part designed to paddle or push through water, such as the fins on a dolphin or the rubber flippers used by swimmers. Example: The scuba diver slipped on his flippers and dove into the ocean to explore the colorful coral reef.

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flipper

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In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming.

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Flipper, however, doesn't seem to sleep at all at least not in any way that humans know it.

Prodding a chunky cut with a fork or squeezing it flat with a flipper is strictly forbidden: it allows juices to escape and the flesh to dry out.As far as flavour is concerned, he has found little to choose between grilling with gas (natural or propane) or charcoal, though outraged purists will doubtless swear otherwise.

While it is natural to wish, as Mr Milliband does, that a burger flipper were paid more it is too easy to forget the other side of the deal workers are shoppers too.

They were taken in August 1972 by an underwater camera triggered by a sonar beam, and seemed to show a diamond-shaped flipper attached to a large underbelly.

Mr Romney is a shape-shifting opportunist—"the flipper rather than the Gipper" (a reference to Reagan), as some conservatives put it; he also has no experience of foreign affairs.

You can live for years in Los Angeles without ever meeting a hamburger flipper, but a day spent without meeting a valet parker is a day spent indoors.Valet parking is perhaps the quintessential service job.

The flipper has the same skeletal base as the wing of flying birds but with its elements shortened and flattened, producing a relatively rigid limb covered with very short feathers an ideal organ for rapid propulsion.

An example of this is a bat's wing and a whale's flipper.

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He claims he applied to be a burger-flipper six months ago.

After years of toil the former burger-flipper, now fully grown, opens his native land's inaugural McDonald's franchise.

It starts the moment that the lowliest burger-flipper joins up.

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