flip through

Idioms and Phrases

Browse through, as in She flipped through the magazine while she waited . This expression uses flip in the sense of “turn over pages.”

Example Sentences

I flip through Variety magazine.

From Los Angeles Times

Why did you want this to be something that people could pick up, flip through, have?

From Los Angeles Times

Among them facsimiles of relevant ephemera are bound in mismatching formats: foldout drawings, transparencies, die-cuttings and pamphlets whose archival relevance you must flip through to ascertain.

From New York Times

Why did you want this to be something that people could pick up, flip through, have?

From Los Angeles Times

The officers flip through papers as several men sit expectantly inside.

From BBC

Related Words

• browse
• check
• examine
• flash
• leaf through
• look through
• scour
• search
• skim
• thumb through