How to Use coin flip in a Sentence

coin flip

noun
  • That’s barely better than a coin flip!
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The Jazz and Kings will have a coin flip for the fourth-best lottery odds.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • But way less so than a penalty kick, which is essentially a coin flip in cleats.
    — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • Oh, the MrBeast coin flip had to be the best moment of the whole show.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
  • Rick Devens' coin flip was unreal.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
  • Neither does the movie, which seems to decide each scene’s individual tone on a coin flip.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • New Orleans and Dallas will have a coin flip for the seventh-best lottery odds.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The Magic are still favored to win the series, albeit at barely better than a coin flip.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • There would be a 50 percent chance that the player in the lead would win that coin flip, reach 10 points and take the entire pot.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Take our recent example game’s score of eight to six with a goal of 10 points; Fermat would notice that the game must end within five coin flips.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026
  • By the close, money markets had moved an October hike to slightly better than a coin flip, when before almost nobody would’ve bet on it.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 June 2026
  • Fermat listed these future outcomes exhaustively, considering each possible way the next five coin flips could land.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Historically, among the largest public offerings on record, the odds of a company posting negative returns in its first three months are roughly a coin flip.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 12 June 2026
  • The Pacers ended up losing what was essentially a coin flip of odds, and relinquished their draft selection to the Clippers.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 24 June 2026
  • The Americans face a tough test against Belgium that is viewed as a coin flip, and things would get even tougher afterward against Spain or Portugal.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • If the game stopped at this point, Fermat’s method for dividing the pot would list all possible outcomes of those five coin flips and then tally the ones that amassed 10 points for each player.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The first option is a success/failure binary coin flip with some probability, and the second option is a regular option with a 10-year horizon with its own volatility and strike.
    — Vineer Bhansali, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Victory in those two matches would put the USMNT in a strong position to win the group, but the matchup against Turkey on June 25 is currently viewed as a coin flip.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • According to data released by the NIH, proposals that scored in the top 10% were almost certainly funded in years past, but their odds of success amounted to a coin flip in 2025.
    — Anil Oza, STAT, 30 Apr. 2026

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