How to Use trippy in a Sentence

trippy

adjective
  • The movie was full of trippy images.
  • Then came a trippy video that pays homage to the kitschy Sid and Marty Krofft show.
    John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • That’s a pretty trippy thing to see—a comet during the day!
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The trippy ad finds the British singer coming home to a small apartment at the end of what appears to be a long day.
    Tom Huddleston Jr., Fortune, 6 Mar. 2018
  • 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 nails scream summertime — a perfect mix of trippy and cute.
    Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Then a wave of chile heat rises up from the background, along with a trippy citrus note.
    Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Some used apps like Headspace; others just put on trippy music and zoned out.
    Marisa Meltzer, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
  • But the trippy style is all one design, courtesy of the trendy French label Jacquemus.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2020
  • But Donnie Darko isn’t just a trippy sci-fi mind-bender.
    Scott Meslow, GQ, 21 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • The trippy black and white picture shows a bald Michals, head like a gray orb, perched on a couch and holding a polaroid of half of his face in front of half of his face.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 June 2019
  • Now, spots devoted to pink wine, eggs and trippy dreams are popping up all over New York.
    Lara Korte, WSJ, 5 July 2018
  • This year, screens wrapped around the airplane hangar-sized tent, which made a trippy Friday night set from Empire of the Sun even more intense.
    Vanessa Franko, Orange County Register, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Seeing the Stones in Hyde Park in 1969 was a more trippy experience.
    Steve Morse, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
  • The trippy park will add an extra line (to shrink wait times) to the existing Toy Story Mania!
    Shannon Barbour, Cosmopolitan, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Anyway, this is just one of many trippy beauty art creations made by Yoon.
    Leanna Commins, Cosmopolitan, 11 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • The concept first came about during the hippy-trippy days of 1969 in Santa Barbara, Calif.
    James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 8 June 2018
  • 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
  • This is neither fuzzed-out shoegazer or thick and trippy stoner rock.
    Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 28 June 2017
  • This movie isn't for the faint of heart, especially during the h artistic and trippy dance sequences that verge on body horror.
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 22 June 2024
  • The suite of rooms is capped off with a trippy fireplace and ceiling mural depicting a woodland scene and a sky full of glowing clouds by artist Louis Eisner, a friend of the couple.
    Carly Olson, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2024

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