How to Use fillip in a Sentence

fillip

noun

• An extra fillip on the main floor is the 24-foot bonus room.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Getting a piece of the Aramco action would be a huge fillip for Hong Kong.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
• Such moves are giving a fillip to the economic growth of the country.
  — Time Staff, Time, 15 Aug. 2017
• That looks like a fillip for those worried by declining faith in the news.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• On the surface, that would appear to be another fillip for the film.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
• Not just because of the potential revival of IS and the fillip to Mr Assad.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• Yet two decades on, the film has become a fillip for internet trolls.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2019
• The share of yuan in global currency trade, stuck at a modest 4.3%, would get a fillip.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• And, oddly, it has been given a fillip by a messy election result at home.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
• That could in turn provide a fillip to a depressed merger market.
  — Lauren Thomas, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
• The streamers have been able to give the genre another, more technical fillip.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Microsoft seemed ahead, and got a late fillip from Walmart joining its bid.
  — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Having a price on carbon is likely to mean a fillip to work that recharges our natural ecosystem.
  — Pawan Mehra, Forbes, 9 Aug. 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
• If anything, that would give them a fillip of energy, a recruitment tool.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The election of Donald Trump raised hopes that a more business friendly administration would be a fillip for the M&A market.
  — WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
• China pepped up its economy with faster credit growth and other fillips to spending.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• 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
• The only fillip the appetizer requires is parked nearby: brown soda bread with dreamy Irish butter.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
• President Trump increased defense spending modestly, but that fillip has passed and spending is still at its modern norm of about 3% of GDP.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 June 2021
• Their arrival provides a welcome fillip for the British economy that’s expected to be bruised by its departure from the European Union.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
• This year’s competition will be a fillip for Vladimir Putin’s kleptocratic regime.
  — The Economist, 9 June 2018
• Adding to the gloom, Summers (rightly) worries about the way that ultra-low interest rates do give a fillip to one type of investment: malinvestment . . .
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 13 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024