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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[?
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.
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.
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.