fillip

Example Sentences

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You wouldn't want to read a whole lot into the 4-1 but it was welcome, a fillip when a catastrophe presented itself at 1-0.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

It was a fillip for Welsford after a torrid 2025 with Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe before switching teams to Ineos Grenadiers this season.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

India's successful mission last month to land a spacecraft on the moon is another factor that feeds into the country's feel-good image and gives Modi a fillip, they said.

From Reuters • Sep. 13, 2023

It’s just another exquisitely entertaining fillip of invention.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

They lived mostly on these things made from stale bread, and condensed milk and coffee, onions, potatoes, and always the penny’s worth of something bought at the last minute, added for fillip.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith