Sentence examples for is tripped up from inspiring English sources

But here, Norris is tripped up by her own attachments.

If NY is interconnecting threads, he is not only plucking and examining their quality, but is tripped up by and bound in them.

That we smarten up, observe the art of his balancing act between arguments and story, watch as history with the weight of the past is tripped up by the lightness of the present.

But he is tripped up here by a peculiarity of English that Dr. Johnson noted in the preface to his dictionary: There is [a] kind of composition more frequent in our language than perhaps in any other, from which arises to foreigners the greatest difficulty.

Snap judgment: Android is a zippy operating system but is tripped up by the user interface.

The protagonist is named Stephen Glass; he works at a magazine called The Washington Weekly, which greatly resembles The New Republic; he is tripped up when another journalist is unable to verify the facts in one of his stories.

(He was tripped up by the word "edelweiss").

Companies can easily be tripped up by these rules.

Many taxpayers can be tripped up on this point.

She was tripped up, however, by a glass slipper.

only to be tripped up by off-field pursuits.