He was lecturing them soundly but sensibly, when he suddenly tripped a sentence and cried--"Here!
III As his Mexican friend trippedblithely away, Bill turned with a thoughtful face to his frying-pan and his fire.
A certain number of people knew that he had practically fought Hamilton Bright in the hall of his club, and had undoubtedly trippedhim up and thrown him.
People might say what they pleased about that, but it would be hard to make any one believe that he had been sober when he had so suddenly lost his temper and tripped up the pacific Hamilton Bright in the afternoon.
So I tripped Bright up under Miner’s nose--and there was Crowdie there, and a couple of servants, so it was rather a public affair.
You must not call yourself old, Mrs. Tuke," and Madeline tripped across the hall, and knocked timidly at the parlour door.
Conversation tripped lightly from point to point, from general to particular, from gay to grave, from serious to solemn.
They were all tripped and lowered together, the main on the starboard side, and the fore and mizen, to port.
After a time it occurred to him to go back and let the mice out of the house, so that they would not be altogether starved in the old hut; and the cat tripped on alone.
And the clerk had to dance the whole night through, such a waltz as he had never tripped before, and he had no wish to repeat the experience.
The grass was long and tangled, and rapid progress through it was possible only by a series of leaps or bounds; any other mode of progression would simply have resulted in their being tripped up at every other step.
It struck poor Mildmay on his right side, and, but for the fortunate accident of his having at that moment tripped and fallen forward, the lieutenant would there and then have lost the number of his mess.
In through the window they leaped, down the front stairway they tripped and were standing in the graveled walk between the red and gold border-beds when the two cars arrived, Jerry's in the lead.
When Dora tripped down from upstairs where she had been to tidy up, she found Dick waiting for her in the lower hall.
Some goats tripped by, brown against the brown stone--the dark brown earth of the native houses.
And then Shameless Wayne's opportunity came; the three were running altogether now, and one tripped up the other, and Wayne was scarce a sword's length from them.
She kept a little behind them as they crossed the sidewalk and made straight for the entrance of the hotel, when, as they were mounting the steps, the woman suddenly tripped and almost fell.
She therefore quickly recovered her spirits, and her face was bright and animated as she tripped away to catch the car at the corner of the street.
Then she tripped quickly back into the presence-chamber, with the girlishness which is so much part of her.
The match-maker,' she said softly, and then she tripped away.
Whereupon she tripped away, he following her as he supposed into the Presence!
He waited a moment outside in the hall until Snorky's bursting imprecation brought the needed consolation, and then tripped down the steps, seeking a calming jigger.
He tripped against the foot-scraper and made a mess of opening the door for her.
But just as Toots with tears in his eyes was starting to grasp his hand, Skippy's foot tripped over a step and he rolled ignominiously down the terrace and fetched up in a heap among the gravel.
He even tripped over an old woman, as he hastily opened the door of the neatly cleaned cottage, and stood aside to let the count pass.
As he went along the Little Morskaya, Albert tripped and fell.
The boar was gaining on him at every step when he tripped and fell.
We had sent a runner ahead to notify the punghulo of our arrival, and as we finished our struggle with the last thorny rattan, and tripped over the last rubber-vine, we could hear the shouting of men and the barking of dogs.
The woman tripped in her skirts, and as she fell the man caught and dragged her.
She hurried one way and another, then ran over an object which tripped her and she fell.
A passing billet of firewood tripped her up and sent her headlong into the flood.
Wait a minute--only a minute," she said, and tripped off with the swift glide of a lapwing.
At the sound of his step Greta tripped through the inner door, all joy and eagerness, to welcome him.
It was not until Greta had tripped up to his side and slipped his scythe-stone from its strap in the pole that the parson was awakened from his reverie.
Pretending to follow him in ignorance of his manifest design, she tripped back on tiptoe, and fled away like a lapwing over the noiseless grass.
Greta tripped along the platform with the foot of a deer.
Laughing because they might not weep; laughing because their souls were dead; laughing in their conscious travesty of the tragedy of pleasure--they tripped and lounged and sauntered along.
When the men were gone she crept out on tiptoe and tripped down the passage to her own room.
Yet one is no longer permitted to say that the bridegroom wore the conventional black, or the bride was elegantly gowned, or the bride's mother presided at the punch bowl, or the assembled guests tripped the light fantastic.
She waved a hand, gathered her skirts closely about her slender figure and tripped away through the snow.
She colored, and nodded in comprehension, and at once tripped across the hall, carrying with her the card and jewel-box.
When he entered the house he trippedover a chair, coming down with a crash.
Suddenly Gavin gave ground, swung and tripped with the heel.
It would have been a lunch and a half if Georgette hadn't tripped over a stone on the way down and dropped the wing of a chicken into the beck.
In a twinkling, I broke through the bush, tripped over the stones, and stood on the other side of the beck.
She gave his nose a comical tap, and trippedaway with her possessor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tripped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
