trip
noun
a journey or voyage.
were tripping
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past progressiveof trip.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Participants in the placebo arm received the same monitoring and follow-up as the treatment arm, but there were no researchers trying to actively convince them that they were tripping, as in Olson’s experiment.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026
“I remember the wires going across the room,” Wild recalls, “and students were tripping on wires, pulling them from the circuit boards.”
From Nature ● Oct. 2, 2018
“We were tripping out about it,” Jones said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2016
"The prosecuting barrister tied them up in knots. The lies that were coming out, they were tripping themselves up constantly."
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2016
Now they were tripping and stumbling toward the exit.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
