trip over
Example Sentences
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“This is our 30th trip over 20 years,” Daggett said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
“The auto-liquidation process that works for perpetuals — that could trip over, and then cause a cascading effect going down exponentially,” Duffy said during the interview.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
Season after season, the club that won style points and little else ventured back into Europe, only to be shoved around by a giant or trip over itself in a pratfall.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
Wearing an eye mask fashioned out of a dollar bill with strategic holes cut in it, so as not to trip over Jeff Bezos, Paulson’s look dared to ask: “In this economy?”
From Salon • May 5, 2026
I scramble off the bed so fast I trip over my own feet.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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