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. She cancelled her trip to Paris.
2. A trip to India may be in the wind.
3. I doubt if she could stand the trip.
4. His wife accompanied him on the trip.
5. He parted with us at the end of the trip.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
trip
 n.  a journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time
 v.  lose balance after knocking your foot against something when walking or running
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  It's no trip for a woman in a delicate condition.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  I doubt if she could stand the trip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
Example Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
16  She started on her trip yesterday morning.
17  A trip to India may be in the wind.
18  His wife accompanied him on the trip.
19  Martens gave a report on his sales trip to Korea.
20  While we're in Australia, we're hoping to squeeze in a trip to the Barrier Reef.
21  Take out accident insurance before you go on your trip.
22  He parted with us at the end of the trip.
23  I never call her and every time she calls me I have a guilt trip.
24  It's normal to feel tired after such a long trip.
25  I'll have to scrape together some money for a sight-seeing trip.
26  He had miscalculated how long the trip would take.
27  We helped to fit him out for a trip to the Baltic.
28  I need to fuel up before I begin the trip.
29  I looked at the motley bunch we were sailing with and began to feel uneasy about the trip.
30  She cancelled her trip to Paris.