flipper

How To Use flipper In A Sentence

• He just moves on, as if we were unworthy of his attention, like the remoras which hitch a free ride on his flanks, and which he brushes off if they carelessly move within reach of his flippers.
• We get our equipment on: flippers, masks, snorkels.
• ‘It's just fun, almost a caricature version of rockabilly,’ adds the Gutter Demon's bassist Flipper.
• Ricketts couldn't have looked more out of his depth had he taken to the field in flippers and a wetsuit.
• Her second suitcase nearly always contained a pair of flippers, a snorkel and mask. Times, Sunday Times
• I will not offer any criticism of the sentiments or idiom of this stanza, for what irked me was the word ‘flippertigibbets,’ which seemed an unnecessary orthographical variation intended only to catch attention it did not deserve.
• The largest was Basilosaurus isis, which was up to 21 m long, with well developed five-fingered flippers on the forelimbs and the quite unexpected presence of hind legs, feet, and toes, not known previously in any archaeocete; a vestigial use may have been as claspers during aquatic mating. Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
• Take the seal born with ginger hair, blue eyes and pink flippers. The Sun
• She is inclined to wrap her flippers around their legs and give them an affectionate cuddle.
• But part of “making life livable for ourselves” means not turning into the sort of noodge who browbeats friends and acquaintances about their dietary choices — at least until they start ordering the Flipper Tempura Roll at Nobu. Vegan Envy