Sentence examples for flippers from inspiring English sources

What's more, the junta quite categorically lacks the imagination to come up with anything as eccentric as Mr Yattaw's homemade flippers, on view by scrolling down this news story.Neither America nor Europe have had more than a scintilla of engagement with Myanmar since years ago imposing a sanctions regime that Ms Suu Kyi herself had called for.

Arm balls, zooters, flippers, doosras, Chinamen: all accelerated the arms race between batsman and bowler.For those who fancy trying out the latest trick, pick up the nearest spherical object and follow Mr Rajan's instructions on how to bowl the "carom" ball, recently conjured up by Ajantha Mendis, a young Sri Lankan.

(According to a popular tale, a Canadair once sucked up a diver by mistake and dropped him, flippers sadly waving, onto a fire.

EUROPEANS like to mock America as a land of hamburger flippers.

No larger than a bedside lamp, it looks like a blue seal standing on its flippers, balancing a ball on its nose.

Then there are speculators (buy-to-letters and condo flippers) who only buy if they think prices are rising.

It was not only house-flippers who lost their jobs, or mortgage brokers who found themselves deep in debt.

Mostly, it was in the hands of contractors who relied on underpaid, badly trained staff; burger-flippers earned more.

Outside the subprime sectors, recent statistics suggest that a large chunk of the rising defaults come from "non-resident homeowners", the speculators and house-flippers for whom there is the least public sympathy.

There was surely plenty of evidence of Americans speculating on property as well; remember the condo-flippers.

Look closer and those burger-flippers work on a small assembly line.