How to Use hiccup in a Sentence

hiccup

1 of 2 noun
  • Our computer problems were caused by a hiccup in the power supply.
  • The stock market has continued to rise, except for a slight hiccup earlier this month.
  • But there may be a few hiccups.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
  • There are bound to be some hiccups.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Seems like there was a hiccup in that whole process.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Though, of course, there can still be hiccups.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Is that a hiccup, or the start of a decline?
    — Katie Woo, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Those hiccups can slow down cases by at least a month.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Most track meets can handle a small hiccup.
    — Cory Mull, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Still, there’s going to be hiccups along the way.
    — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2026
  • The rushed start wasn’t the only hiccup.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Just be sure to read the fine print, as a hiccup could stand in the way of the gold.
    — Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026
  • And there have been other hiccups.
    — Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Even the more recent challenges felt more like a hiccup in progress.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • There were a couple of minor hiccups with the recipes, too.
    — Erin Bunch, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 May 2026
  • There were some notable hiccups early in the game.
    — Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Some have stepped up and been ready and some showed some hiccups under the lights — and that is all right.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Congressman Himes did not have a bad case of the hiccups.
    — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • There were certainly hiccups along the way.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But there was also a hiccup on the May mission.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But there are a number of hiccups that could interrupt your plans.
    — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Even the great Shohei Ohtani has had recent hiccups or two in games.
    — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • There was one memorable hiccup in the night, April said.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
  • But that may not be enough to compensate for hiccups in its spinoff plan and slowing growth.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
  • All in all, the game was fairly successful, with one hiccup.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 4 May 2026
  • That’s not to say Montgomery’s first hiccup as a Ranger was the lone flaw.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • But none of these hiccups have deterred the company’s fans.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Beyond that hiccup, setup is breezy.
    — New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Since then, another hiccup has emerged.
    — CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • In the case of Greenland, these not-so-minor hiccups proved a bridge too far for many.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2026

hiccup

2 of 2 verb
  • Would wake up in the night to use the bathroom and start to hiccup.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 13 Dec. 2021
  • There were the kinds of first-day hiccups employees of all kinds can relate to.
    — Drew Kann, AJC.com, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Tifany, ran up to her mother and began to hiccup as her eyes overflowed with tears.
    — Alice Driver, Longreads, 20 June 2019
  • The offense hiccupped behind a very young cast, but that was to be expected.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Markowitz said the project is going smoothly, but probably won't be hiccup free.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • One deputy is shown with her finger in the air as Woods, while hiccupping, tries to follow it with his eyes.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Rapinoe begins hiccuping, the beginning of the end for her night.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The action is smooth, with the Switch 2 not hiccupping when juggling dozens of small critters.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 19 May 2026
  • Even a good smartphone with a strong network can stream movie and TV series and never hiccup.
    — Kim Komando, Fox News, 26 May 2018
  • Sometimes the music seems to hiccup into silence, as if nitrogen bubbles flowed through its bloodstream.
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Often when someone starts to hiccup, a debate begins among everyone nearby over which home remedy is the true cure.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
  • This is all presuming Google will work out any performance hiccups the app may be having at launch on iOS.
    — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
  • The clip showed Woods complete several field sobriety tests while hiccuping.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
  • And the pedestrian app hiccuped repeatedly, counting the seconds faster or slower than the crossing sign showed.
    — Rebekah L. Sanders, azcentral, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Deputies also noted that Woods was hiccupping during questioning.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Jones had a twang in his voice, hiccupping with abandon whenever the tempo quickened, but Williams was smooth, never rushing a song and never raising his voice.
    — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Billboard, 9 Sep. 2017
  • There’s a good movie to be made about podcasts that traffic in unsolved mysteries where hosts rank cliffhangers and that hiccuping dramatic cadence over journalism.
    — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Open Doors hiccups Thomas was one of only a few to get a standalone former restaurant, the former Barrio Taqueria space.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
  • Burnett leaned into the character’s drinking habit, hiccupping through Miss Hannigan’s swigs from a bottle of bathtub gin.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Woods, who was hiccupping during questioning, continuously moved his head during one of the sobriety tests and deputies had to tell him several times to keep his head straight, the report said.
    — Mike Schneider, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Charles Osborne of Anthon, Iowa, began hiccupping in 1922 while attempting to weigh a hog.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Now the image is body-cam footage of a puffy-eyed 50-year-old man hiccupping and nodding off in the back of a police car after another DUI arrest.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Woods, who was hiccupping during the questioning, continuously moved his head during one of the sobriety tests and deputies had to instruct him several times to keep his head straight, the report said.
    — Mike Schneider, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Customers can usually tell when a brand is not being authentic due to mixed or low-value messaging, and a lack of transparency is oftentimes the first negative hiccup a customer hits with any brand.
    — Expert Panel, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Woods, who was hiccupping during questioning, continuously moved his head during one of the sobriety tests and deputies had to tell him several times to keep his head straight, according to an arrest report.
    — R.j. Rico, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Woods, who was hiccupping during questioning, continuously moved his head during one of the sobriety tests, and deputies had to tell him several times to keep his head straight, according to an arrest report.
    — R.j. Rico, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The model and television personality, 37, posted a sweet video of her 1-month-old daughter looking cozy on top of a gray blanket with a white bib, lightly hiccuping as she was being fed milk.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2023
  • While seated in the back of the cruiser, Woods is seen hiccupping and intermittently closing his eyes, at one point leaning back and keeping them shut for several seconds before facing forward again.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The batteries were also crucial to keeping the power on when a nuclear plant hiccuped and went offline earlier in the week, said Doug Lewin, a Texas energy consultant.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • Swift and Antonoff blow past the production clichés of clap tracks and hiccuped syllabic hooks that have proliferated across Top 40 fare in recent years with boldly inventive textures and fresh melodic, rhythmic and sonic accents.
    — Randy Lewis, latimes.com, 24 Aug. 2017

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