How to Use trip up in a Sentence

trip up

phrasal verb
Definition of trip upnext
  • Fame can fizzle, or a star can trip up, and the alchemy has to be just right.
    — Time, 20 June 2023
  • Between the four cubes, there’s enough room to pack clothing for trips up to 14 days.
    — Kristi Kellogg, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Track work has also hampered trips up and down the route.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
  • But the concept of negation still tripped up the chatbots.
    — Max G. Levy, Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2023
  • Curtis wasn’t the only one who got tripped up by the question.
    — EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Segments that differ from the target by just a couple of bases can trip up the tool.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2016
  • Somehow, the event triggered his brain to start tripping up his speech all over again.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • So, the two men, who were 25 years apart in age and looked very much like father and son, made a lot of trips up the stage together.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Crimson Tide sends the house to get at Ewers, who escapes but is tripped up, falling at the 11.
    — Matt Stahl | [email protected], al, 9 Sep. 2023
  • On their next trip up the court, on the other end of an East layup, Flanigan missed another 3.
    — Calum McAndrew, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Zendaya's appeared at the gala five times while Lopez has a whopping 13 trips up the Met Gala steps under her belt.
    — Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • So long, days of getting tripped up on your dog's leash and having to do clumsy pirouettes.
    — New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Last-minute gifts can turn into blooming headaches if you get tripped up by the wrong flash sale or promotion.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2023
  • If this describes you, then your first solution might be planning a trip up north.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
  • By the end of nearly an hour trying to trip up the AI system, Meyers seemed exhausted.
    — Khari Johnson, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
  • That is the area that can trip up an awful lot of organizations.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Where some people get tripped up is in their cabinetry and counters.
    — Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 11 July 2023
  • Brother Rice makes a Saturday trip up north to take on Loyola.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • Also Biden tripped up on another occasion that might come back to haunt him more over the next few days.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 July 2024
  • Don’t get tripped up by the passion-inflaming, anti-woke rhetoric.
    — Carol J. Petty, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Lopez plays a woman, named the Artist, who keeps tripping up in her relationships.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Anytime the viewer might get tripped up by the proper nouns, Villeneuve is there to strike them with the power of Herbert’s universe.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Ryan Day has not yet been tripped up by the sort of unexpected road loss that caught Urban Meyer at the end of his tenure.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Just take a trip up to the Signature Room restaurant and bar to take in the Hancock Tower's lake and city views over cocktails or a buffet brunch.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Defining ‘replevin’ Hamilton seemed tripped up on a question that should be basic to all lawyers.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2024
  • In their view, the potential upside of watching your opponent melt down is greater than the risk of tripping up.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 18 May 2024
  • The change is under way, as a glut of synthetic media is tripping up search engines such as Google.
    — Nathaniel Lubin, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • My friends and family are scattered all over, so many of my weekends involve hours-long Amtrak trips up and down the East Coast.
    — Phoebe Sklansky, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Making it through a hot Boise summer often includes a trip up north for locals.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 17 June 2024
  • Teams had to drive stick shift, which usually trips up contestants.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024

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