How to Use technical difficulties in a Sentence

technical difficulties

plural noun
  • There were some technical difficulties at first — sound would be spotty, streams would cut out.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The hearing went on for about two and a half hours, delayed at times by technical difficulties.
    — Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Due to technical difficulties, this program will be available to stream at a later time.
    — The Hill, 21 May 2025
  • Then one drone had to be grounded because of technical difficulties.
    — Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Along the way, one of the boats had technical difficulties and all 10 men boarded a single boat.
    — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2026
  • No one wants to be the person holding up the boarding process because of technical difficulties.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Veitch even leads a group prayer, foreshadowing the rest of the evening’s technical difficulties.
    — Vulture, 18 Apr. 2023
  • This is arriving late because of some technical difficulties on our end.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 10 Sep. 2024
  • That is what the delay was, technical difficulties.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The Prime Video broadcast went blank with technical difficulties for a short time in the final minute or so.
    — Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Aside from the technical difficulties, the actual draft went largely to form.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
  • Trump's last live appearance on X was plagued with technical difficulties.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The platform has also been plagued by technical difficulties.
    — C Mandler, CBS News, 31 May 2023
  • Due to technical difficulties with the livestream, the entire discussion was not available live.
    — Staff, Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2024
  • Ideally, during the final minutes of a do-or-die playoff game, fans wouldn’t miss any of the game due to technical difficulties.
    — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The glitchy livestream got off to an inauspicious start, with technical difficulties delaying the event for almost an hour.
    — Spriha Srivastava,sam Meredith, CNBC, 6 June 2025
  • Brantley Gilbert is proving that technical difficulties aren’t always a bad thing.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The Grapevine store doesn't even have registers, though employees stand by to help shoppers with any technical difficulties.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The British channel was scrambling after audio for the free-to-air channel had technical difficulties.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
  • There’s a lot of technical difficulties because the heart is consistently moving, right?
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Rogers Arena revealed that the show was postponed because of technical difficulties with new equipment.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
  • After some technical difficulties, the meeting was switched over to the Microsoft Teams app.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Throughout the concert, there were technical difficulties with the sound, making the music louder than the microphone.
    — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The country singer flipped his piano on stage Friday after struggling with technical difficulties.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
  • Sure, seven minutes is nice, but Coker said the team really aims for four, leaving them three minutes to spare to check for technical difficulties.
    — Jayna Bardahl, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The former boy bander also fondly reminisced about the group’s go-to song for when technical difficulties with the speaker system occurred at shows.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Thousands of Netflix users reported technical difficulties while trying to watch the fight.
    — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
  • There was an announcement about technical difficulties.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2026
  • And, that was despite technical difficulties with the music, which Tran handled just about as purrrfectly as possible.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2024
  • But the committee didn’t get to hear and see the majority of the presentation because of technical difficulties.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2025

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