Sentence examples for the fillip from inspiring English sources
noun
A flick; the act of releasing the index finger from the hold of a thumb with a snap.
Rousing rhetoric from world leaders partly explains the fillip.
Despite the fillip from the temporary reduction in value-added tax, consumer spending will fall sharply.
More than most, he needs the fillip of knowing it is going well.
The UK should benefit from the fillip that quantitative easing will provide to the eurozone.
Meanwhile Els had openly spoken of the fillip his US Open performance had given him.
Of tan rock-faced brick, they are essentially rectangular buildings, each with the fillip of a crenelated turret.
The fillips in the third dimension (a scarf flung in the spectator's face, a ghoulish Charles Bronson jumping a victim from the shadows of the auditorium) are mere frills.
Various special effects come built in, but you're better off saving the fillips for the editing room.
Even the crowds coming out of the feelgood fillip of the packed finals of the beach volleyball on Copacabana were a reminder of the corporatism that is hardwired into the Games.
The demonstrators played a tape of bubbling cauldrons and vile belches, and the perfect fillip was the stench that hung in the air -- which was not even their idea, just dumb luck that a sewer crew was working nearby.
There's no equivalent of Madrid's Prado, though I do recommend the Tile Museum, dedicated to the decorative fillip that makes the city so distinctive.
