ADVERB
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moving with quick light steps
she walked lightsomely down the long staircase
How To Use trippingly In A Sentence
- Aside from not rolling trippingly off the tongue, I found that many women took issue with the word goddess. Dr. Ali Binazir: What Real Life Goddesses Have in Common
- Even the iambic, which consists of one short and one long syllable; or that foot which is equal to the choreus, having three short syllables, being therefore equal in time though not in the number of syllables; or the dactyl, which consists of one long and two short syllables, if it is next to the last foot, joins that foot very trippingly, if it is a choreus or a spondee. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
- I should soar trippingly like a butterfly.
- Come and see our chapel, Claire," said Abby; the word oratory did not yet come trippingly to her tongue. Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir
- Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
- She trippingly flies between the heaven and the earth, by the posture of an angel.
- I had always called my parents' friends by their first names - heck, I called my parents by their first names, but somehow Mrs. B's Christian appellation never fell trippingly from my lips.