How to Use trippy in a Sentence

trippy

adjective
  • The movie was full of trippy images.
  • That’s a pretty trippy thing to see—a comet during the day!
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
  • On the other end of the hatch isn’t the Dharma Initiative, but rather a trippy view of a 1990s mall.
    Radhika Menon, ELLE, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The trippy paintings appeared in the windows maybe 15 months ago.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 4 June 2020
  • The storylines: The trailer for Cyrus' episode is quite trippy.
    Elizabeth Loga, Glamour, 6 Aug. 2021
  • But the trippy style is all one design, courtesy of the trendy French label Jacquemus.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2020
  • That’s the wind-up to a truly trippy scene in which the singer tries to choke out his wrinkly doppelgänger, with each man grabbing the other around the throat.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The first is a trippy twist on the classic Crocs clog decorated with swirls of pink, blue and yellow.
    Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 5 June 2021
  • In the new video, Gomez plays a hairdresser in a trippy, bizarre salon with clients coming in and out to get serviced.
    Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Todd Haynes’s documentary takes viewers on a trippy tour to the world of Lou Reed and his out-there bandmates.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The trippy tiles—some with a kaleidoscope of sardines, roosters, oranges, and eggplants—start the meal with a wink.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 9 Feb. 2022
  • This time, a new work would be the centerpiece of the gallery wall: a woman in folk art garb made trippy by op-artist Victor Vasarely.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Or a trippy tour poster for Foo Fighters with floating mountains and a flying van.
    Rene Guzman. Staff Writer, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • There's some intriguing twists afoot, and Hemsworth is a funny, trippy and sometimes scary hoot.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 June 2022
  • McView kicks off this rare late-'80s hit for the band with keys that are hypnotically trippy, which set the stage for the magical track.
    Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The Fool, the trippy, unused landscape created for Sgt.
    Emily Farra, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2021
  • There’s also a trippy backward launch, a first for a Disney coaster.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 5 May 2022
  • In the background, a green screen shows trippy visuals such as the starry galaxy, a busy highway and crashing ocean waves, to name a few.
    Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Such trippy, recursive games were a staple of trompe l’oeil.
    Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But many critics found the new run of episodes, which moved the action to Europe, to be scattershot, trippy and weird … and not a good weird, but a head-scratching, off-putting weird.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • Each episode shows the trippy work that goes into playing such intense pretend.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 July 2022
  • However, this is a trippy thriller, so things tend to go horribly wrong.
    Jace Lacob, EW.com, 25 July 2022
  • As if Russian Doll wasn't trippy enough, seeing the show's star and her two stunt doubles in one place might really mess with your head.
    Julia Emmanuele, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The trippy tube after leaving the loading station is a classic.
    Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 2 May 2021
  • Inside the airy, loft-like venue, a trippy video featuring Pharrell on the drums and music by French artist Sébastian Teller opened the show.
    ELLE, 6 July 2022
  • There's a lot of dynamic sweep in this one, from the chiming opening to charging verses and choruses, then back to the trippy shimmer of the break.
    Gary Graff, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2021
  • What was trippy was to spend months directing Sadie in season four, and then to reunite with her on a set in New York a year later, but as her co-star for a scene.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2022
  • Melatonin spray is less trippy than pills, and this small bottle can go anywhere, from the bedroom now to hotel rooms later.
    Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 May 2020
  • Henson’s wardrobe ran the gamut from Area gowns with trippy black and white prints to vintage bustiers from legendary designer Patrick Kelly.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2020
  • There’s also a light show evocative of a trippy electronic music concert and a film that transports you to space.
    Lauren Smart, Dallas News, 2 Oct. 2020

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