tripping over

Example Sentences

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Sonny finds himself tripping over his ineptitude and tangled up in conflicting sympathies—he’s almost as anxious as his hostages, whom he treats with an apologetic kindliness, almost like a party crasher who’s broken a vase.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Stoke City midfielder Liam Lawrence injured his ankle when tripping over his pet Labrador.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

“The White Lotus” is built, in part, on the gap between image and reality, but you’re right, there were so many plot holes that it was hard not to keep tripping over them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025

I kept tripping over a man carrying a large wooden cross.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024

Thought they'd be tripping over themselves to memorialize one of their own.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon