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How to use tripped in a sentence

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I tripped on the last step in the mad dash for the ground floor and ended up in a heap on the cotton mass on the ground.
She jumped off the swing to stand before him, but she misjudged her footing and tripped over her long skirts to fall flat on her face.
As we were taking the field, in front of a crowd between 30,000 and 40,000, I tripped on my shoestring and fell flat on my face.
She got about four steps away when she tripped over her leg rope and fell face first into a puddle.
Verity, in her high heels and straight skirt, tripped over the blocks Ben had thrown out of his playpen.
In his hurry he almost tripped on the stairs to the porch, but managed to keep his balance by wildly flailing out his arms.
They were playing away when a holiday maker lost her footing on the rough ground, tripped and fell, taking out the whole band.
He called 911 right after he'd stepped through his front door and tripped over the upended credenza.
As we approached the levelling-out stage she prepared to move forward, tripped and fell full length.
I had planned this moment for so long, tripped over details in my head, deliberated over how I would do this.
As her daughter tripped on a mop and dropped a box of glass dishes, the burnt end of that fuse collided with the gunpowder.
In the twilight dusk, I followed him out the door and up the garden path, where he tripped over a loose rock and fell to one knee.
A boy on a skateboard, on his way home from a friend's place, tripped on a slight downhill slope on a quiet suburban street.
His press agent has claimed that Gere was walking past an archaeological site in Venezuela when he tripped and fell on the skeleton.
A pensioner tripped over a pub's open cellar doors and broke his neck, an inquest heard.
Newsome's name was soon added to referee's book when he deliberately tripped an opponent.
All I find is my older brother James in a tangled mess on the floor, having just tripped over his trouser legs.
As I jumped up, I tripped over the legs of my table, and ended up on the floor.
Once the circuit breaker was tripped, all sparks, flames and arcing ceased.
Daniel tripped on barbwire and it flew back in his face slicing his ear up severely.
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Tom tripped upstairs to the garret, and returned with a bunch of garget berries, with which they stained their faces and hands.
With these words she took her partners arm and tripped along, with swaying hips and smiling a vinegary smile on all sides.
I ran at him, tripped on a stump, let out a yell, and he LEP' straight at my throat.
My exasperation with self was by no means allayed when I tripped over a stone and fell my length in a sludgy patch of swamp.
We had a tripping line on it, so we tripped the sea-anchor and hauled it in.
She tripped up some wide stone stairs, destitute of carpets, and then down a corridor, slippery with parquetry work.
Eerily it tripped and chimed and lilted to its close, and the Maestro swung about and faced them, smiling still, quizzically.
She tripped up the steps as lightly as a leaf blown by the wind, her trim figure swaying as lithely as a willow-shoot.
Then she said to the master of the dog, 'Mr Clennam, sir,' and tripped away.
Then immediately after breakfast she tripped down the stairs into the courtyard.
Now he inserted it into the receiving tray of the autopilot and tripped a lever.
In a second Harve had him tripped and thrown and was down on him bashing in his face for him.
And so they tripped on through the beatitudes, teaching the people biology in parables.
Mrs. Peter broke off in some confusion, and tripped out to meet her husband in the hall.
In his haste to get away, the lad tripped and fell flat in the muddy water which raced through the underpass.
Trent, with ludicrous ease, tripped the awkwardly charging shepherd and sent him asprawl on the ground.
One of the young women had tripped out by this time from the porter's lodge, and dropped the stranger a pretty curtsey.
When discovered by a dog or boy, he tripped out of one of his open doors and led the intruder a useless run into the swamp.
I tripped out pretty quick the first time I heard it, but could see nothing.
Then they tripped you, koku, and as many of them as could, made a jump for the machine.
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