How to Use fillip in a Sentence

fillip

noun
  • That looks like a fillip for those worried by declining faith in the news.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Yet two decades on, the film has become a fillip for internet trolls.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2019
  • And, oddly, it has been given a fillip by a messy election result at home.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Such moves are giving a fillip to the economic growth of the country.
    — Time Staff, Time, 15 Aug. 2017
  • On the surface, that would appear to be another fillip for the film.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
  • That could in turn provide a fillip to a depressed merger market.
    — Lauren Thomas, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Adding eating it on the occasion of the birth of the Christ Child is a fillip.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Microsoft seemed ahead, and got a late fillip from Walmart joining its bid.
    — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2020
  • If anything, that would give them a fillip of energy, a recruitment tool.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The streamers have been able to give the genre another, more technical fillip.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Having a price on carbon is likely to mean a fillip to work that recharges our natural ecosystem.
    — Pawan Mehra, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Getting a piece of the Aramco action would be a huge fillip for Hong Kong.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
  • China pepped up its economy with faster credit growth and other fillips to spending.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • L’Etoile later tells me every table is treated to the fillip, which happens to be gluten-free.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Not just because of the potential revival of IS and the fillip to Mr Assad.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • This year’s competition will be a fillip for Vladimir Putin’s kleptocratic regime.
    — The Economist, 9 June 2018
  • Some of the stylistic fillips feel excessive, and at the end of the day, this is just a tawdry, gory B-picture, with little to say about human behavior.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2019
  • At the end of the melody, Shorter introduces a catchy fillip of a phrase, repeats it, then turns it over in a few different harmonic contexts.
    — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • That fillip was separate from a temporary 15% bump in benefits as part of pandemic relief.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Such a move would constitute a fillip to the West but China has already been warm in its diplomatic response to the Taliban.
    — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Lower oil prices lead to cheaper gasoline prices, which can prompt consumers to increase their spending on other goods and services, usually a fillip for the wider economy.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2016
  • Assembled above, the makings of a modern bedroom with a French fillip, the colorations running the full Carnation range.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 23 July 2021
  • There are micro-twists within the major ones, expressive fillips that blend confessions and aphorisms, and grand reflections along with jousts of seductive wit.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Peacoats had a bit of a fillip at the back; jackets, just a bit of Poirot-like padding; gingham and leopard and Watteau florals, a faded kind of glory.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • While the return to chart dominance for so many local films is a fillip for the Korean production sector, the weekend was one of the weakest of the summer.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Victory for the theocrat would be a fillip for them, perhaps leading to a string of primary challenges to sitting Republicans next year.
    — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Congress increased benefits by 15% during the pandemic, though this fillip is set to end in September.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Ayyub played another student leader, a tyro named Shiva Shekhar—not quite the main role, but a key one nevertheless, and a fillip to his career.
    — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • From there, give or take the odd tonal fillip in the script, everything proceeds according to the romcom playbook — third-act roadblocks, reconciliations and all.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 June 2026
  • The expected parliamentary logjam as Britain replaces EU laws with its own could bring another fillip for crooks.
    — The Economist, 24 Jan. 2018

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