trip
noun
a journey or voyage.
had been tripping
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past perfect progressiveof trip.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Never mind that people had been tripping on her train all evening long.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
John Crow had been tripping over college scouts ever since he made the first team at Louisiana's Springhill High School; he had offers of scholarships from Notre Dame to Oklahoma.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ever since six o'clock, when vespers were well over and the gipsies had struck up the first csárdás, merry feet had been tripping it almost incessantly.
From A Bride of the Plains by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
