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trip

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verb

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as in to hop
to move with a light springing step dancers tripping lightly across the stage

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of trip
Noun
The Penguins start the trip on Sunday at 6 p.m. in Sunrise against the champs. Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025 No shopping trip is as fun for me as my bimonthly jaunt to TJ’s. Katie Akin, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
That means no cords to trip over and no bags to deal with. Juhi Wadia, PCMAG, 5 Mar. 2025 Reset buttons: These restore power after a GFCI outlet has been tripped. Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trip
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trip
Noun
  • For decades, Hurtigruten has been a leader in Norwegian coastal cruising and, more recently, expedition travel.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The ambitious shoot took place over five years and 180 expeditions.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This makes people more forgiving when leaders make mistakes.
    Tendayi Viki, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • How does that kind of high-consequence mistake happen?
    CBS News, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In 14 different ballparks today (the Tampa Bay Rays and Colorado Rockies will have to wait until Friday to begin), players will jog out of the dugout and lineup along the chalk that runs from home plate to the outfield poles.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Pope made sure to share the celebration again, jogging to find his wife and daughters behind the bench for a long embrace before hustling to a TV interview.
    Jesse Temple, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Still, relative humidity values are expected to fall below 25 percent outside of the mountains and around 25 percent in the mountain valleys, with higher values in the higher elevations.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Amid controversy and lukewarm reviews, the opening weekend haul falls short of Tim Burton’s Dumbo, which opened to $45 million in 2019.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This prevents the disease from hopping to other communities, Offit explains.
    Ripley Cleghorn, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Reuniting with her ex Danni (Sadie Scott), the pair hops around Trashtown to earn the fee while encountering some peculiar characters along the way.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In the seventeenth century, for example, people of all classes made pilgrimages to temples and shrines, visited hot springs for health reasons, and traveled to see the sights of the country.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 23 Mar. 2025
  • If any of the men in black and white lacked motivation, the merest glances to the fans who’d traveled in their droves from the North-east would refuel them in an instant.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • With Pochettino watching from the sidelines, the national team stumbled through its second lifeless loss in four days Sunday, falling to Canada 2-1 in the third place game of the CONCACAF Nations League before a tiny, mostly quiet crowd at SoFi Stadium.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Warning: Spoilers ahead for Severance Ever since Helly and Mark stumbled upon a room filled with goats in Season 1 of Severance, fans have been wondering why Lumon is raising these animals in their walls.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Af Klint kept a meticulous record of her spiritual journey, in what would grow to thousands of pages of handwritten notebooks.
    Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Erivo closed her speech with a powerful dedication to those feeling lost and uncertain in their journeys.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trip. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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