11.   It is why we flip the channel to basic cable, since that seems to be the only way to avoid it.

12.   Let Chick take a day off, stay in bed all day if he wants and flip the channels.

13.   Like him, we could once eat nasty foods as if they were stockpiled nuclear weapons and burn them off flipping TV channels.

14.   Or a voice-activated remote control from inVoca that flips the channels at a spoken command.

15.   Sharon picks up the remote and begins flipping channels.

16.   The whole process was like flipping television channels with a mouse instead of a remote control, and about as nourishing artistically.

17.   TV news teasers are merely the way to keep us from flipping channels, even if it means stretching the truth and playing on our worst fears.

18.   Watching news has become a process of flipping channels, searching for the most up-to-date information or the story that matters to us most.

19.   You can barely flip channels without seeing a tearful Brooke, a chirpy Cricket, a raging Storm, a wooden Cord.

20.   Zhang said he now stops to listen to opera every time he catches some while flipping channels on TV.