Sentence examples for slight hiccup from inspiring English sources

There is, it's true, a slight hiccup in chronology as the story jumps back to the children on the previous evening.

There followed a slight hiccup: defeat to Hereford United in the FA Cup, their embarrassment spared by the absence of cameras.

Davenport had her chances to pounce on a slight hiccup in Capriati's game, but botched double break point in the seventh game of the first set.

At the end of the first-act love duet, just before Otello requests his kiss, there was a slight hiccup in the orchestral chord rather than the unified exhalation in the score.

Jeremy Corbyn's endorsement by UB40 has experienced a slight hiccup after the rival incarnation of the multimillion-selling band – who also call themselves UB40 – declined to back him as Labour leader.

It's partly because the software that drives the car isn't exactly ready for production yet, so every now and again something weird happens – a jerky overtake, a slight hesitation to squeeze through into an adjacent lane, or, as happened once, the car declaring for no obvious reason that "a slight hiccup" had occurred and that it was going to pull over.

Sometimes, though less often nowadays than in the past, they are people of such worldwide distinction that their slightest hiccup is riveting.

Stocks and bonds alike are priced for perfection, and when that's the case, the slightest hiccup – like comments made by Federal Reserve officials early this month – can ignite a big selloff.

In "The Black Swan," Taleb wrote, "The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup".

With jets coming into airports every few minutes -- at La Guardia, it's one every 110 seconds -- the slightest hiccup in the system sends air traffic controllers to Plan B: Hold everything.

It's a place where things done perfectly go unnoticed, while the slightest hiccup makes news columns big and small, which attracts some of the greatest thinkers and doers working today along with more than its fair share of those whose only purpose in life is to serve as a bad example to others.