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
  • 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 | Mstahl@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Teams had to drive stick shift, which usually trips up contestants.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The school leaders also seemed prepared for questions that had tripped up the Harvard and Penn presidents.
    — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 8 May 2024
  • Road conditions can be more dangerous in the snow, and unprepared drivers run the risk of getting tripped up by icy streets and chilly air.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The mayor said that often little things can trip up small business owners or lengthen the process of opening up a new business.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The accident happened mid-performance, as the 73-year-old artist returned from a stint in the pit and tripped up the stairs while carrying his electric guitar.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 June 2023
  • Each successive Green 3-pointer just served as another dagger to the heart of a hearty Los Gatos contingent who made the trip up 880 to Oakland.
    — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • One of the more memorable and heartbreaking moments on this track came eight years ago in the same event, when Alysia Montano, looking to return to the Olympics, got tripped up in the homestretch and stayed down on the track crying.
    — Eddie Pells, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024

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