tripped

past tense of trip
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as in hopped
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 tripped Since then, price has completely round-tripped the move, giving back the entire post-earnings gap and settling back into the mid-$250s. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026 Thomas Maulson alleged a deputy tripped him while handcuffed, causing injuries that required 13 stitches. — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 21 Sep. 2026 An older man to my right tripped and took a face-first dive across the pavement, glasses flying off his face. — Timothy Townsend, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 Mizzou tripped Kansas 42-31 last season in Columbia, went 4-1 against the Jayhawks uninterrupted from 2007-11 at Arrowhead Stadium and also conquered KU 42-17 in 2006 at Memorial Stadium in Columbia. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026 Waukee experienced an additional outage for 1,700 customers on Wednesday after a circuit was tripped offline, according to MidAmerican. — Kate Kealey, Des Moines Register, 9 Sep. 2026 There were also moments of controversy, as Gabriel seemed to kick out at Martinez and Declan Rice tripped Rogers. — Jack Lang, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026 When the horse tripped, the animal fell and rolled over on top of her, according to the outlets. — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026 The fourth hour began haphazardly as the Today With Jenna & Sheinelle camera operator tripped over a chair during their intro segment. — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tripped
Verb
  • Just after the sun melted into the sea a deer trotted by, followed by its more nervous baby.
    — David G. Allan, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
  • In the 10th, automatic runner Joey Ortiz advanced on a bunt and trotted home when Frelick bounced a single to right field off Grant Wolfram (6-4).
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.
    — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Vines are pulled away from fences, and sometimes trees are even felled.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Chloë Sevigny was an early adopter, and by now, everyone from Jennifer Lawrence to have hopped on the trend.
    — Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 24 Sep. 2026
  • So, around dark, the two men hopped the fence and made their way onto the property.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Tiny creatures like crabs and ants traveled huge distances, encountering all sorts of dangers—driven by the instinct to lay eggs and reproduce at any cost.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Our photographers also visited park openings in Davis and Sacramento, and travelled to the remote Placer County community of Iowa Hill after a sheriff’s deputies engaged in a two-hour shootout with a man who killed a woman in a home nearby.
    — Nathaniel Levine, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Colorado stumbled out of its Big 12 opener with a 23-13 loss to Baylor, dropping Coach Prime's Buffaloes to 2-2 and looking like (potentially) the worst team in the conference.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • A couple of years later, Noah Kravitz of Oxford, unaware of Müyesser and Pokrovskiy’s solution, stumbled on Graham’s conjecture in an online archive of unsolved problems.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • After a fourth-and-1 stop by the defense, quarterback Bryce Young and the Panthers offense jogged back onto the field with one minute left in the contest on their own 17 yard-line.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Sep. 2026
  • The freshman receiver appeared to favor his right knee after reeling in a third-quarter touchdown, then jogged gingerly over to the USC sideline.
    — Sean Campbell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • As the Carolina Hurricanes’ Sebastian Aho slipped past the Florida Panthers defense for a breakaway, the Florida Panthers’ new goaltender set up in his crease.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The Latino officers who spoke to The Times said the department has for too long prioritized the promotion of Black members of the force to leadership roles while the representation of Latinos in the highest ranks has slipped.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Dailey kept the ball on a zone-read play, slipped behind the left guard and bounced it outside for a touchdown that made it 14-7 and gave Northern Iowa (2-2, 1-0) the lead for good 49 seconds into the second quarter.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The Daily Show has bounced from Craig Kilborn to Jon Stewart to Trevor Noah to various hosts and Jon Stewart again.
    — Taylor Tomlinson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026

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“Tripped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tripped. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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