Sentence examples for hiccup of from inspiring English sources

There follows a little hiccup of a pause.

A hiccup of time ago, trekking to Wynwood, a working-class Puerto Rican neighborhood, was a test in urban fortitude.

ANTON CHEKHOV understood the heady drama of small moments: that hiccup of dread before breakfast, the wistful sigh that greets another drink.

Museum is still only a cult tourist attraction in New York in its second season, a hiccup of an institution largely hidden.

In small, poor countries like Burkina Faso, every burp and hiccup of an aid agency like the Millennium Challenge Corporation is news — and often front page news.

With a sparkle in his eye and maybe a hiccup of emotion, he thanked his team for helping him "live the life of my dreams".

Dispiriting, because – alongside the rabbit-hiccup of a laugh these titles sometimes elicit – it shores up the idea that comedians' work is never really about anything other than the comics themselves.

They are the "mutant hiccups of organizational evolution," the "barnacles on the ship of executive survival".

From flickering screens onstage birds fly in little hiccups of movement.

That said, he keeps his social networking dashboards open on his computer all day to absorb their hiccups of information.

"NW" follows a small cohort in Willesden, rising and falling, largely through the rhythms and hiccups of speech.