Example sentences for: tripping

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

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

  • House Speaker Newt Gingrich and House Judiciary Committee chair Henry Hyde are tripping over one another's leadership initiatives--"a classic case of too many chiefs," commented another Republican Representative.

  • Given that the English language is the world's principal form of communication, we can perhaps be forgiven for tripping ourselves up with it occasionally.

  • 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.

  • You can’t walk without tripping into a cocktail.


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