tripping over
Example Sentences
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She became worried about dementia when she noticed her short-term memory fading and that she was dropping things and tripping over her own feet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025
“The White Lotus” is built, in part, on the gap between image and reality, but you’re right, there were so many plot holes that it was hard not to keep tripping over them.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025
I kept tripping over a man carrying a large wooden cross.
From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024
Stacey Vint, 34, from Middlesbrough, headed towards officers before tripping over and falling to the ground at their feet, Teesside Crown Court heard.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024
“Come on, Nessy, you know you want to dance! I hope you ain’t still tripping over what that fool Curtis said. Are you mad at me for saying the stuff about Miss America?”
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
