How to Use trip up in a Sentence

trip up

phrasal verb

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Indeed, a trip up the hill to cut grass by hand using sickles is the first stage of any thatching workshop.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 6 Oct. 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
• The short trip up to Marinid Tombs is a must, particularly at sunset to get a sense of the city as a whole and watch the sun light up the fields and mountains nearby.
  — Elle Benson Easton, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 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

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024