Example sentences for: tripping

How can you use “tripping” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It could mean tripping [up] your team or scoring a point against your colleagues[?

  • They lift the lady up, seductively tighten her leg muscles, and thrust her forward as if to launch her into the air and into her future, even as they shorten her stride and increase her risk of tripping.

  • But soon these words came tripping through his brain: "Isn't it a lovely day to be caught in the rain?"

  • If this were a Rube Goldberg contraption, this recollection would remind the writer of the grease spot on page 2, caused by his having eaten a Big Mac, the memory of which conjures up such a vivid image that the writer opens his mouth to take a bite, and a string attached to his lower jaw releases a mouse, the sight of which arouses a cat which chases it, causing the mouse to squeal, awakening a midget who stretches, tripping open a trapdoor; through the trapdoor falls a usage book, sliding down a chute into the hands of the writer.

  • The newspaper did not attempt to explain who these people were or why they would be tripping up and down the stairs to the president's suite.


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