flipped

Example Sentences

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One incredible thing about it, which was very useful in high school, was that the way-back had two seats that flipped, so you could travel with seven comfortably.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

As the machine printed their work on newsprint paper, five technicians in uniform quickly flipped through the pages to check the quality.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

As angular momentum moved from one vibration to another, the direction of rotation flipped.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2026

Smacking his head on a lamppost while chasing one woman and ogling another, Damien is transported to a parallel universe in which women don’t just run the world, the nature of the sexes has flipped.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Somewhere in the night he’d flipped the bookcase over and floated the rest of the way lying inside, dozing safe as a chick in its nest.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney