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cause to stumble
The questions on the test tripped him up -
make an error
She slipped up and revealed the name -
detect a blunder or misstep
The reporter tripped up the senator
How To Use trip up In A Sentence
- The only use he serves as a coach is that his nose just about crosses the touchline when he's sat in the dugout, so there's every chance he'll be able to trip up a tricky winger with his conk.
- Make sure trailing flexes are kept out of the way so you don't trip up over them.
- While I was planning the trip up in Niamey I heard there was trouble in Lomé so I stopped the recce and came down to the coast. A DARKENING STAIN
- Not all will be perfect but the sum of them, ideally, is enough to trip up a problem. Bombs Point To Weaknesses In Air Cargo Security
- The way the table stands at this moment Spurs' trip up to Molineux in early September already has the look of a genuine six-pointer about it. The early August Premier League table never lies | Harry Pearson
- Mind you, the outfits are of the least sensible variety, with flowing capes and swirling belts that would trip up even modest attempts to walk.
- At low tide there were acres of mud with screeching gulls scavenging; and at high tide steamerfuls of tourists charging past - with or without thumping music - for a quick trip up through the half-tide lock at Richmond into deeper waters above. Second Wind
- Last summer I made a trip up the Amazon basin in Peru.
- While I was planning the trip up in Niamey I heard there was trouble in Lomé so I stopped the recce and came down to the coast. A DARKENING STAIN
- First, there's a dispatch from AP reporter Margie Mason, who took a trip up the Bay Hap river in August.