Example Sentences

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On Thursday, investors will be looking for signs that the company can keep avoiding the pitfalls that have been tripping up its peers, despite the tough political environment.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

“Instead, states have been tripping over themselves to put it back in,” she said.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2024

By all accounts, Mallorca has no shortage of beautiful beaches; we should have been tripping over them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2015

If the resource-price moves that have been tripping up central bankers since 2000 suddenly moderate, then what happens next?

From Economist • Sep. 19, 2012

I might have been tripping down the Mall with a lady on my arm, for all the danger I ran.'

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew