tripping over
Example Sentences
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That’s not the only sign that the DOJ can’t avoid tripping over its own feet in this campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Big tech companies are tripping over themselves to get as many chips as possible to secure AI supremacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
And then it wasn’t, with the Kings once again tripping over a familiar hurdle.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
I kept tripping over a man carrying a large wooden cross.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
She could hardly move in the kitchen, large as it was, without tripping over the gangly legs of a man or having one of them bar her path to the fireplace with a poker.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
