How to Use trip up in a Sentence

trip up

verb
  • That is where people get tripped up.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
  • This is where many leaders get tripped up.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • This one trips up almost every first-time renter.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Book one of the suites or cottages with a stone hot tub to take your trip up a notch.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2025
  • My instinct is to trip up the music, get away from the form, break the form.
    — Charles Moss, SPIN, 20 Apr. 2026
  • He was tripped up after 83 yards on a kick return.
    — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Benge got twisted up and tripped up, and the ball went well over his head and a few feet to his left.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 5 May 2026
  • It can get tripped up by small branches and wires, however.
    — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
  • His story isn’t the only one tripped up by distrust.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Transportation is where a lot of first-time visitors get tripped up.
    — Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
  • This version, however, offers enough space for trips up to two weeks long.
    — Jasmine Grant, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2025
  • This one trips up almost every new homeowner.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
  • What better way to close Battery Week than a boat trip up the Amazon?
    — Fabiano Maisonnave, Bloomberg, 25 Apr. 2026
  • That campaign has previously tripped up by three problems.
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Cross-border payments run through a tangle of rules that differ market by market and trip up even seasoned staff.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Many a front runner has been tripped up on the way to Oscar Sunday so always beware.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 26 Dec. 2025
  • And by Saturday morning we were launched on this a hundred mile ice skate trip up in the Arctic.
    — Outside Online, 17 Dec. 2025
  • James and Bradfield also were tripped up by modern sports technology.
    — ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • This biennial cycle creates a timing quirk that trips up buyers.
    — Allison Palmer updated February 20, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
  • But many are still are holding their breath, having watched negotiations lumber along for years only to trip up at the last minute.
    — Isabel Debre, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2026
  • This seems to be what's tripping up many moviegoers, and Blumhouse has even turned the confusion into a bit of a meme.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
  • For broader exploration—say, a trip up to Milford or down to Stockton—a car is helpful.
    — Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026
  • Getting Started the Right Way The label is where most people get tripped up.
    — Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Brink was tripped up by former Gophers star Logan Cooley and went hard into the side boards face first.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The Rams will come off their mini-bye for a trip up to Santa Clara for a rematch against the 49ers.
    — Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
  • That tripped up Chris Gotterup, one of the 22 newcomers to the Masters this year.
    — ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The haters are going to have to try much harder to trip up Jaxson Dart and Marissa Ayers.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
  • After becoming a free agent, Mays took a trip up north to join the New York Giants practice squad.
    — Mike Kaye january 15, Charlotte Observer, 15 Jan. 2026
  • How many times over two decades have the Canes been tripped up by teams with lesser talent, due to overconfidence and myriad other reasons?
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In the real world, however, the technology can be tripped up by interacting with humans.
    — Shirin Ghaffary, Bloomberg, 23 Apr. 2026

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