TRIP in a Sentence

Learn TRIP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
261 example sentences for TRIP, such as:
1. I doubt if she could stand the trip.
2. We went on a day trip to the seaside.
3. Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
4. She has written off an account of her trip.
5. He postponed his trip at the eleventh hour.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TRIP
trip
 n.  an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
 n.  an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
Classic Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
1  Frantically she cast about in her mind for some other topic of conversation which would not be so personal but which would divert Mr. O'Hara from the purpose of his trip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  People who did not like him said that after every trip he made to Atlanta, prices jumped five dollars.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Rhett, who was preparing to leave for Wilmington for another trip abroad, departed with a grin on his face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  It was a ghastly trip home, with Aunt Pitty crying into her handkerchief, Melanie sitting erect and white and Scarlett slumped, stunned in the corner of the carriage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  These Uncle Peter loaded into the carriage and drove to the hospital, making trip after trip until the old horse was lathered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  It's no trip for a woman in a delicate condition.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  I doubt if she could stand the trip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  But, at least, she had the money with which to buy the clothes, a horse and wagon for the trip, and perhaps Pork could make the trip without getting caught.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  And there were plenty of old folks that couldn't stand the trip and sick folks that ought not to have been moved and ladies who were-- well, ladies who hadn't ought to be moved either.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  Pork had been almost worthless since the trip, so proud was he of returning safely with his wagon-load of dress goods, seed, fowls, hams, side meat and meal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  But she did not upbraid him on his return, for she was happy that he had made the trip successfully and pleased that he brought back so much of the money she had given him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
12  Why, goodness, it took days riding on a train to make the trip and if Ashley was walking, like these men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
13  For an instant Scarlett envisaged her trip to Atlanta and her conversation with Rhett with Mammy glowering chaperonage like a large black Cerberus in the background.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
14  Surely I have the right to know, after your little trip out to the jail not long ago.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  She had made the long trip to Gettysburg after the battle to bring back Darcy's body but no one had been able to tell her where he was buried.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
Example Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1  She has written off an account of her trip.
2  I've developed a taste for African music since my trip last year to Nigeria.
3  A lion's head was among the trophies of his African trip.
4  I will look after her child when she is on a business trip.
5  He'd already spent all his money by the second day of the trip.
6  The school trip has become an annual event.
7  Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
8  Long trailing flexes are a serious trip hazard.
9  The next stage of the trip is about one hundred miles.
10  A trip to New Zealand is out of the question this year.
11  The trip has been extended to include a few other events.
12  The trip calls for careful advance planning.
13  We went on a day trip to the seaside.
14  He postponed his trip at the eleventh hour.
15  A trip to the Summer Palace is programmed for next Sunday.