How To Use Trip In A Sentence

At any rate, she rolled up the cuffs of her camouflage cargo pants a few times so she didn't trip if today's class required running.
As for me, I was feeling a little spaced out and tired from my trip across the pond yesterday.
When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight. Why Spiders Always Devour Ants Head First | Impact Lab
Trip steels have a microstructure with retained austenite, ferrite and martensite.
Our economy suffered a triple whammy this year - we were hit by Sars, the Iraq war, and then the world economic downturn.

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The site has its own airstrip and light aircraft service, and its own small marina.
Avoiding tripping over the lines on deck, you then have to quant your boat through the bridge. Times, Sunday Times
He opens the door for me, and I slide in, scooting over to save him a trip.
How do you know when to clap the triple jumpers? Times, Sunday Times
And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either. The Sun
So again if you're unfamiliar with this yarn and needle arrangement, start by knitting stripes in full needle rib.
More than 26,000 people made the trip to inspect the acers and aspidistras at what is fast becoming one of the best, and best-loved, horticultural events in the North of England.
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.
San Francisco's Magierek likes to wear short unitards, turtlenecks, stripes, and prints.
But I am now reaping the rewards of this effort in this trip.
The arrows indicate the beginning of the grace note figure and the placement of each note in the triplet figure for the left hand.
It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk. Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
They run out of beer by about 7pm so we then turned to the wine, which I'm afraid would have stripped the paint off any wall.
seat the camera on the tripod
Denim is identified as an "American cotton textile where the diagonal warp is a striped hickory cloth that was once associated with railroadmen's overalls, in which blue or black contrasting undyed white threads form the woven pattern. My God George Will is a bigger fashion snob than me! - dfi
Of course people have noticed before that Matisse posed his models in flimsy, filmy harem pants on divans and cushions covered with flowered or striped stuffs against fabric screens and curtains.
But he claims his leading inspiration was his own acid trips in the early '80s.
After the counter is installed on top of the cabinet, the wood strip is attached to the front edge of the counter using glue and small, air-driven brads.
We take a sightseeing boat trip around the bay and get a glimpse of the smart new opera house which looks exactly like two durians - a very distinctive local fruit that tastes great but has a repellant smell.
Liqueurs commonly made this way include triple sec, cassis, Cointreau, Grand Mariner and so forth.
They're showing a triple bill of horror movies .
In a slow, lackluster way she began stripping the spell off the books. THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
I personally try and keep it simple with a Grande, skim, triple, bone-dry cappuccino, which is Starbuck's English for the kind of cappuccino you'd get at the Rome airport. Mark Strausman: A Chef's-Eye View of Starbucks
Round off the trip with a lunch of Zanzibari rice and spiced tea. Times, Sunday Times
The series in fact comprises only two: one in the form of a monk's habit and cowl, and one depicting a pin-striped business suit and tie.
And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either. The Sun
First he was writing, then he was hiking, then he went to Argentina to clear his head and drive along the coast (a two mile narrow strip overlooking the intercoastal waterway, hardly scenic). Sanford visiting family in Sullivan's Island
Another member of the congregation is believed to have been on the coach trip.
Make a Mobius strip out of a ribbon of mild steel and magnetise it.
Cutting a continuous bias strip This is a quick way of cutting a long length of bias strip. Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
During the hustle of everyone getting underway someone tripped the anchor that we used to stabilize our dinghy.
Every single one of his intended blows was blocked and parried, even when the man tripped and fell backwards.
Some feminists today debate whether women who dance around poles are liberated or enslaved, which is, to my mind (and to others), an updated version of the 1980s sex wars around which feminists of different stripes established their positions on porn," I tried. Deborah Siegel: Sex Wars Old and New
Stripping off her leather breeches and boots, and her tunic, Isabella slid into the sudsy, herbal scented water of the tub, submersing her body up to her chin.
But it is highly unlikely that Bertrand found the trip as boring as his song implies.
Values represent means obtained from triplicated experimental runs, with all SE values < 3% of total.
The bear is called grandfather by many peoples and the tiger is alluded to as the striped one. Exploring language (6th edn)
It left us both joyful and speechless, happy to be home again but sad that this great trip was over.
An experienced guide will accompany the trip to commentate on specific battles.
Food subsidies are reduced or thrown out altogether and food prices may double or triple overnight.
This consisted of the standard scheme with the addition of yellow and orange stripes to the rear of the fuselage and tailplane.
Antioch held Edessa and Tripoli under its sway and was ruled by Normans.
Not just a gentle nibble as our Shetland sheep do lower down, but a strip of bark half an inch deep. Times, Sunday Times
I pause because telling the dream out loud has tripped the trigger.
I got sick after a biscuit, a strip of bacon, and an egg.
Since 1975, landmines have killed over a million people, far outstripping the deaths caused by those well-publicized bugaboos, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
About a year ago, we took everything out of the rooms, stripped out the floor, put in new 1-inch pavers through the whole area, and then brought in the new pasteurizer and re-piped the entire system.
Slips, trips and falls are a very common cause of accidents with hundreds of thousands of incidents reported each year.
The pace things were going meant that liquidity demands would have outstripped liquidity resources. Times, Sunday Times
In his hurry to leave the room, he tripped over a chair.
Last week, exultant rebels in Tripoli clambered on Gaddafi's vainglorious statue of an American warplane in the grip of a mighty Libyan fist.
DON'T use dish detergent which contains harsh chemicals that are intended to cut grease and will strip away the wax finish. The Sun
This is his second puzzling triple morphemic repetition in recent days, following up on the biggest self of self is self ". Language Log
Max MacLeod made the trip on the Jean de la Lune and found the experience bracing: Let go buntlines and clews!
Millions of consumer electronics devices - mobile phones, PDAs, PVRs, and DVD platers - are already running on stripped-down embedded versions of Linux.
Trent ducked under another swing attack, swept with his feet in a scissors kick that tripped up his opponent and forced him to the ground.
If you place the access outside, be sure it is insulated and weatherstripped against both the elements and intrusion by insects or small animals.
Ironic, because this is genuinely naked food, stripped bare, revealing all, hiding nothing.
However, unlike the Buicks of the recent past, the tail lamp is not a single cross-car strip, but simply at each of the corners.
In this paper, several curing agent of polyurethane were synthesized. Influences of solid content and dosage of TDI tripolymer on different PU adhesion high initial bonding strength were discussed.
Therefore, the hepatopulmonary syndrome substantially is a triplet that consists of liver disease, dilatation of the pulmonary microcirculation, and hypoxemia.
Linda said changing three sets of nappies, putting a trio of youngsters through school and dealing with triple helpings of teenage tantrums had not always been easy.
Together with other Brassica species, it likely descends from a hexaploid ancestor followed by extensive rearrangements, making its genome essentially a triplicated A. thaliana genome.
Britain is facing a bungalow crisis as the demand for single-storey homes outstrips supply. Times, Sunday Times
Verity, in her high heels and straight skirt, tripped over the blocks Ben had thrown out of his playpen.
I wouldn't be surprised if as a result of his Liverpool trip he finds his popularity ratings soaring.
For a good part of the beginning of the trip, I space out.
After a pleasant trip, Richard and I alighted from the train at Kal.
The same principle can be used to make a moisture meter from wooded strips.
Meanwhile, what I think as a longtime recreational striper angler is this: (1) Make stripers gamefish coast-wide with no commercial fishing or sale of wild stripers at all. Uncategorized Blog Posts
He's an amiable man in a striped shirt who talks with infectious vim about science. Times, Sunday Times
Then several wardresses came in, stripped me, put me into prison clothes and took me to another cell. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior. Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
Dey allowed de patterollers to snoop around an 'whup de slaves, mother said dey stripped some of de slaves naked an' whupped 'em. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
Our trip from Florida to Pennsylvania to attend the Cairn Terrier Specialty Dog Show, was one long series of mishaps, turned into hilarious memories.
The majority of the oxygen supplied to the cell is utilized by the mitochondria to make a chemical known as adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. Forever Young
In most cases, each song is given melodic depth by MacKaye's baritone guitar and Farina's stripped-kit drumming.
The child tripped lightly like a bird.
Cahoot's new interest range outstrips its online banking rival, Intelligent Finance, the Halifax's Internet bank.
I had been planning a trip to the West Coast.
Sales of soap products have gone up from £76m in 1981 to £173m 20 years later while sales of baby wipes have nearly tripled in the last 15 years.
The Chicago Cap was the same shape as the Parti-Colored Cap, but featured horizontal (rather than vertical) stripes and a solid-colored bill.
My fault for being such an eejit as to give a charlatan a fortune for dressed-up tripe.
The difference in ride going upwind and downwind was enormous, demonstrating the need to assess weather conditions for an offshore trip with a boat full of potentially tired divers.
This is placed on chemically treated plastic strips which react with cancer cells, turning a fluorescent green.
Despite the speed of the ground troops, airstrips were always within 100 miles of the front lines.
The resort is popular for stag and hen trips. The Sun
I rose from my seat and tripped over the legs of the make-out slurper beside me. Stupid Cupid
One can strip the fifties of its illusive aura of dull conformity without inflating cultural dissidence or generational muscle-flexing into political resistance.
If the Trips,” she said, referring to her triplet grandchildren, “hadn’t brought you here that special Christmas almost three years ago, I might never have gotten to know you. Family Blessings
A white strip of birch bark blowing up from the hollow over the brown floor of the grove made her heart stand still. Anne of Green Gables
Designers use floral in monotones with unusual checks and stripes, silky and lustrous finishes, transparence and illusion placements with a hint of skin in the collection.
It's been well noted at how the Lib Dems would do just about anything to win a vote but choosing a stripogram/kissogram to stand as councillor to rein in the votes is quite something! Stripping Lib Dems
The county council has introduced pool cars for business trips, and last year adopted mileage rates of 40p a mile for staff using bikes on business.
Now that marriage no longer means much, why not let couples or triples or quadruples of whatever variety get married?
This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
Purple Label sportswear is filled with chocolate-colored suede trench coats, gray pinstriped cashmere slacks, cashmere sweaters and cashmere overcoats.
The dough is twisted into a rope-like strip and pelletized into small lumps.
Adventitious buds have been induced from protoplast culture, on leaf explants and on strips of stem.
And when euery manne hath throwen his darte, or shotte his arrowe: whilest the beast is troubled and amased with the stripes, thei steppe in to her and slea her. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
Between short scenes – aiming presumably to distil the essence of Faulks's novel but actually stripping it of atmosphere and verve – swathes of prose are just read out. Birdsong; On Ageing; The Big Fellah; Yes, Prime Minister
Wash your hands after visits to the restrooms and breakrooms and also remember that shopping and any trips to public places can result in exposure to infections.
The story of their trip to see the giant had become stale. Times, Sunday Times
These two lads started on these trees, and had them falling like ninepins, it was taking the rest of us all our time to keep pace stripping them. Work Camp 934 L
The next lap of our trip takes us into the mountains.
The trip was a welcome respite from the pressures of work.
Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off. CHAPTER XXIX
My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights.
He and his mates are laughing and jeering at their next-door neighbour: a crazy old man, stripped to the waist, performing what looks like some kind of weird callisthenics routine in his backyard.
He is funding the trip through odd Jobs and offering rides in the rickshaw. Times, Sunday Times
The bending property in transverse direction of tin-phosphor bronze strip is a very important quality index which has a great inference on the quality of final products.
Tension gives the thin strips their form and causes them to retain their locations on the cylindrical concrete columns that support the parking slab and roof.
The third in the triplet took you in totally the opposite direction by looking at life as a transgender person who blurs the distinction between male and female identification.
Most visibly, it has transformed the British day out - you can't visit even the most two-bit town these days without tripping over its spangly new heritage centre or interactive museum.
We are required to have a police escort for the three mile trip from our terminal to the consignee.
That nighttime trip had wounded his pride and bruised his ego.
The European badger (_Meles taxus_ or _M. meles_) is from 25 in. to 29 in. long, with a tail of about 8 in.; the general hue of the fur is grey above and black on the under parts; the head is white, with a black stripe on each side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
You should come back from a trip into town feeling like a human being. Times, Sunday Times
We used ipe wood strips as the skin of the structure, the ipe wood skin is devised as a double wall system, in which horizontal ipe strips are placed over vertical, furring strips. The Choy Residence by Terry & Terry Architecture
Actual punishment should only be used as a last resort; a sharp tap with a cardboard strip is quite sufficient.
The temperature limiting device is of the manual reset, trip-free type and has been factory installed to interrupt all ungrounded power supply conductors in the event of thermostat failure.
A triple-beam balance gets its name because it has three beams that allow you to move known masses along the beam.
It is remarkable that the principle fluorophore is derived from a triplet of adjacent amino acids: the serine, tyrosine, and glycine residues at locations 65, 66, and 67 (referred to as Ser65, Tyr66, and Gly67; see Figure 2). Archive 2005-10-01
He's spraddling out the legs of his tripod to get it down to her level.
America is working on plans to triple its aviation industry, a big polluter. Times, Sunday Times
Mechanical percussion techniques have been used therapeutically after shock wave lithotripsy to dislodge such calculi from the lower pole of the kidney.
A pleasure trip or an outing rejuvenates your energy and relationships today.
It's going to take me forever and a day to pay for the trip, but it will be worth it.
His garments were about like ordinary street clothes, belted tunic and baggy trousers, but a certain precision in their cut-as well as blue-and-gold stripes and the double fylfot embroidered on the sleeves-indicated they were a livery. The Earth Book of Stormgate
Still basking in the afterglow from a short trip out to San Diego to visit good friends Ed and Jen, I hunted up an email from Ed from last summer. We Blog A Lot
Our second annual spring trip to the Upper Catch and Release Area of the Miller's River, my father caught this nice brown trout, and caught flak from the elitists because he was using the fly rod with a spinning reel and rooster tail and catching fish, while the elitist fly fishers were getting skunked all morning. Field & Stream
As the car swings onto the East Coast Road, on the way back to Chennai, we find a man-lion dancing on the sandy strip between kiosks advertising Kodak film and ‘Frooti’, and the metalled speedway.
They can exercise a subtle, unseen influence, somewhat like a magnetic field or centripetal force, compelling us inexorably back on ourselves.
It was a strip of gaudy landscaping in front of a strip mall in glaring bright daylight.
Of the gambling – booths there was a plentiful show, flourishing in all the splendour of carpeted ground, striped hangings, crimson cloth, pinnacled roofs, geranium pots, and livery servants. Nicholas Nickleby
She's tripping because you left her high and dry.
Two strips of wood, about an inch square, called riffle-bars, were nailed across the bottom of the cradle-box, one at the middle and the other near the lower end. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
Most clearly, it would be the manufacturers or entrepreneurs who commissioned weavers to create cotton textiles with woven patterns — stripes, checks, dimities used for garments and furnishing fabrics. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
During much of my sojourn, travel will be in the major cities with only the occasional trip to somewhere remote and probably unpronounceable.
It appears, also, from the researches of Leydig18 and others, that striped fibres extend from the panniculus to some of the larger hairs, such as the vibrissæ of certain quadrupeds. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
For Daniel and his wife, Nancy, 63, retirement has meant frequent travel, with their collecting adding purpose to their trips.
In this sense, peasants were simply tenants who worked a strip of land or maybe several strips.
Trip flares, attached to low pickets, can be placed around a position or in an ambush site, and may either be fired when an enemy touches a tripwire or initiated by the defender or ambusher.
This may include modifying the environment by moving objects such as electrical cords or furniture to reduce tripping and falling.
And with billions and billions served helpings of the lardaceous potato strips, it's a sticky moment for JamesSkinner'sJames Skinner's Golden Arches, which last October boasted of its initiative to print nutritional data on its packages to help consumers make informed choices about what to eat. Skinner's McDonald's Comes Clean On Fries' Fat
They swamped out a small landing strip.
Gordon's eighth work of fiction is a triptych of lives, a weaving of three histories that culminates in a few days of crisis.
The Institute of Physics in London have decided to celebrate his birth 100 years ago with a cartoon strip.
The film doesn't stop at intergenerational same-sex relations or drug trips.
The medial stripe, nearest the midline, which becomes the ventral region of the neural tube, gives rise to motor neurons, whereas the lateral stripes give rise to interneurons and sensory neurons.
In this case, air stripping precedes a conventional biological process, while carbon adsorption is used as a final polishing step.
It is to be enjoyed like a holiday trip. Times, Sunday Times
Restoration of the paddle steamer will involve stripping the entire front third of the vessel before repairing the hull and refurbishing the engines.
Her lashing tail was half-spotted, half-striped; her clothes overly big and just a little worn and patchy, like hand-me-downs.
The skin after trip is met abrade one chunk.
Michael Ontkean performs the funniest "striptease" bit in the history of film, and the endearingly sociopathic “Hansen Brothers” have to be seen to be believed. Hullabaloo
The company has Centre for Insurance and Risk Management tripled its staff in the past 12 months, hiring (CIRM), estimates that India's OTC weather experts in agronomy and agricultural mete - derivatives market is worth around $1 billion. orology to meet growing demand. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
But this can not, of course, explain the greater similarity in the striping of the rest of the body.
They wolf-whistled at me, and I was so embarrassed I tripped up.
As soon as we finished setting up our tent, we hightailed it to the main strip.
This left the US-funded base to be stripped bare by locals.
Their singer's on a real ego trip.
This shopping trip was a real eyeopener. The Sun
He was caught cheating during the Seoul Olympics and humiliatingly stripped of his title.
The mountain slopes that had been stripped were covered in bush and vines.
The Boer never rides his horse at the trot, but at a quick walk or canter, and a step peculiar to the country and called ‘trippling’, or, as we should style it, ambling.
The current swine influenza A, called H1N1, is a triple hybrid avian/pig/human virus, “definitely” of swine origin. Wonk Room » Flu Farms: Decreasing Factory Farming Could Help Avert the Next Swine Flu Epidemic
The shirt is complemented by anthracite grey shorts, and white socks with redcurrant pinstripes and an anthracite band with Arsenal printed on the calf. Archive 2009-09-01
Un tripudio di tipografia che ruota attorno ai cinque sensi, e come contribuiscano a migliorare la nostra creatività. No Fat Clips!!! : Typophile Film Festival 5: Opening Titles
The trip has been cancelled. Times, Sunday Times
But the same urchins along the walk from the strip back up the rise toward the quarters, the same characterless sleep.
A jilted man takes a trip to Hawaii, only to find his ex is staying at the same resort. The Sun
BARRY: This may be very difficult, because they're using HMTD, which is hexamethylene triperoxide diamine. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2007
Once school districts begin busing thousands (millions?) of children to NFL games for field trips, then maybe the comparison will be a little more genuine. Opera versus the NFL, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
After that, the strip is passivated and dried. Then the strip goes into exit looper.
I glanced over to where he was looking and saw a creature like a tiger, but with tabby coloring instead of the traditional black and orange stripes.
There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin. Power, corruption and lies
My cardiologist is triple board certified, including in EP, and is out of Michigan – one of the top centers, along with Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Blog « BuzzMachine
Her credibility has lost out to her desperate desire to be liked, even if it is by bull-necked honkers in shirts made of the stars and stripes.
Antidepressants such as amitriptyline and prothiaden are sometimes used to treat chronic pain, including fibromyalgia.
Once I was in a conga line around the pool when my foreign editor called to discuss a trip to Helmand. Times, Sunday Times
Extreme family: It lacks luxury but a break in the Welsh countryside more than makes ... school trips to activity centres, have quadded and go-karted with PGL and often throw themselves around on WN.com - Articles related to Amy heading back to Caribbean
This week actor Alan Rachins, better known as the balding popinjay Douglas Brackman of "L.A. Law," shucks his pinstripes for something more daring. He Left His Briefs Behind
I wish my parents would stop laying a guilt trip on me for not going to college.
The appended strip accentuates the rightward momentum of the depicted fish tail, as if the wriggling beast had pushed out the side of the composition.
In 1981, he made a trip to Bavaria with three friends from the German department, and there, in a little bookstore in Munich, on Voralmstrasse, he found two other books: the slim volume titled Mitzi's Treasure, less than one hundred pages long, and the aforementioned English novel, The Garden. '2666'
Different soil compositions and geomorphic factors affect the distribution of wildlife and make room for other vegetative groups such as halophyte plants including Atriplex, Larrea divaricata, L. cuneifolia, Suaeda, and Tricomaria. Humid Pampas
With worldwide demand for nuclear skills far outstripping supply, that niche should become steadily more valuable. Times, Sunday Times
A feeding frenzy ensued - within minutes the unfortunate man was stripped of his clothes.
Cut chicken lengthwise into 1/2-inch thick strips and set aside.
We've had to cancel the trip and can't afford to lose this money. The Sun
He tore a strip off a Marlboro packet, roached it and sat back to admire the craftsmanship. A DARKENING STAIN
The authentic beaded doll had large gold neck rings, so we added strips of silver foil paper around the top and bottom of our cups with tacky craft glue to simulate precious metal.
And the little red stripe across the radiator grille. Times, Sunday Times

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