How to Use trippy in a Sentence

trippy

adjective
  • The movie was full of trippy images.
  • This helped the team weed out trippy compounds.
    — Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Then a wave of chile heat rises up from the background, along with a trippy citrus note.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Some used apps like Headspace; others just put on trippy music and zoned out.
    — Marisa Meltzer, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
  • Anyway, this is just one of many trippy beauty art creations made by Yoon.
    — Leanna Commins, Cosmopolitan, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Each episode shows the trippy work that goes into playing such intense pretend.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 July 2022
  • However, this is a trippy thriller, so things tend to go horribly wrong.
    — Jace Lacob, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Paintings-within-paintings hang on her walls in a trippy hall-of-mirrors.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Then came a trippy video that pays homage to the kitschy Sid and Marty Krofft show.
    — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The trippy paintings appeared in the windows maybe 15 months ago.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 4 June 2020
  • The trippy ad finds the British singer coming home to a small apartment at the end of what appears to be a long day.
    — Tom Huddleston Jr., Fortune, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Darkside have shared a new single from their new LP, along with a trippy music video.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Now, spots devoted to pink wine, eggs and trippy dreams are popping up all over New York.
    — Lara Korte, WSJ, 5 July 2018
  • There’s also a trippy backward launch, a first for a Disney coaster.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 5 May 2022
  • The trippy tube after leaving the loading station is a classic.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 2 May 2021
  • There's some intriguing twists afoot, and Hemsworth is a funny, trippy and sometimes scary hoot.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 June 2022
  • The first is a trippy twist on the classic Crocs clog decorated with swirls of pink, blue and yellow.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 5 June 2021
  • Or a trippy tour poster for Foo Fighters with floating mountains and a flying van.
    — Rene Guzman. Staff Writer, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • But the trippy style is all one design, courtesy of the trendy French label Jacquemus.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The trippy tiles—some with a kaleidoscope of sardines, roosters, oranges, and eggplants—start the meal with a wink.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In the new video, Gomez plays a hairdresser in a trippy, bizarre salon with clients coming in and out to get serviced.
    — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2021
  • That’s the wind-up to a truly trippy scene in which the singer tries to choke out his wrinkly doppelgänger, with each man grabbing the other around the throat.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2022
  • This movie isn't for the faint of heart, especially during the artistic and trippy dance sequences that verge on body horror.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Feb. 2026
  • In the background, a green screen shows trippy visuals such as the starry galaxy, a busy highway and crashing ocean waves, to name a few.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The overall effect is a film that—flaws and all—marries acid satire and a trippy futurescape where oppression is the norm to an ethos of genuine hope.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 13 July 2018
  • The trippy black and white picture shows a bald Michals, head like a gray orb, perched on a couch and holding a polaroid of half of his face in front of half of his face.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 June 2019
  • The trippy park will add an extra line (to shrink wait times) to the existing Toy Story Mania!
    — Shannon Barbour, Cosmopolitan, 29 Jan. 2018
  • As if Russian Doll wasn't trippy enough, seeing the show's star and her two stunt doubles in one place might really mess with your head.
    — Julia Emmanuele, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
  • The singer doesn't even make an appearance; Jenner stars in the new clip on her own, lip-syncing and dancing around to in the trippy visuals.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Todd Haynes’s documentary takes viewers on a trippy tour to the world of Lou Reed and his out-there bandmates.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 6 Oct. 2021

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