| A giggle, more a hiccup in sound than anything, emerged from her pursed lips. |
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| The glottis suddenly closes and stops the inflow of air resulting in the sound of a hiccup. |
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| He let loose the loudest hiccup I'd ever heard and took another swig of something or other from his canteen. |
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| However, all sides are insisting this is a temporary hiccup that can be overcome. |
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| Just because you sing with the odd hiccup or twang a certain phrase doesn't mean you can say you're singing country music. |
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| For one, the leap second occurs in the middle of the day in Asia and Australia, causing a time hiccup during stock trading. |
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| To me, this isn't the occasional mnemonic hiccup, it's a cognitive hacking cough. |
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| Full marks must go to Stroppy Cow, who, somehow, managed to fall sideways as she introduced herself with a hiccup and a glass in each hand. |
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| And while they've had a hiccup or two along the way, the fact is that they remain firmly on course to lift the title. |
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| Mary began to hiccup, her efforts at trying to not cry getting the best of her. |
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| Secondly these students deserve the chance to overcome this initial hiccup, to show whatever aptitudes, abilities they have. |
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| I sobbed, uncontrollably, starting to shake and hiccup I was crying so much. |
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| Was it an interlude, a parenthesis, a hiccup, an embarrassment, or a beginning? |
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| Our wind turbine and hydro worked virtually without hiccup, making our lives sensitive to fluctuations between energy abundance and paucity. |
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| There was a slight hiccup on Saturday when the locomotive jumped the rails on its way back to Bury after the Heywood station celebrations. |
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| The only hiccup is the sudden loss of batting form of vice-captain Ryan Watson. |
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| That demotion, however, was a mere hiccup compared to some of the troubles experienced in previous decades. |
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| This small hiccup in the otherwise smooth functioning of the hospital was quickly forgotten. |
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| Despite that hiccup the fact remains that Denmark have a genuinely decent side. |
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| I could hear the call going along the line, but then at the final moment, instead of ringing, there was a strange, almost imperceptible hiccup. |
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| It was an accent or a hiccup in her pronunciation that made all the difference. |
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| My girlfriend does the same hiccup thing with carbonated things. |
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| It is specific for asthma and oppressed breathing, hiccup, whooping cough, spasmodic croup, tetanus, hydrophobia, hysteria paroxysms and hysterical convulsions. |
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| This was a mistake, a glitch or hiccup in Lara's life plans. |
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| One man's hiccup is another man's multi-million pound premium rate phone-in scandal. |
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| Their stupefaction outweighed the triumph and what echoed on the stands resembled a giant hiccup. |
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| For many mailers, there will be a hiccup and for others it will be the final straw. |
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| It did not, however, take steps to offset the impact of the financial hiccup on growth expectations. Markets reacted. |
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| In Luxembourg this Monday, the ministers apparently devoted half an hour or so to this event, which one of them described as merely a hiccup. |
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| Could this be a signal of global economic development slowing again, or just a severe hiccup in the road to recovery? |
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| On the whole, things went well in Sydney, but there was one notable hiccup in the accreditation of priests. |
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| The Lisbon process is not the only one which has seen a hiccup in the European machine. |
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| You have boldly said not to worry about carbon dioxide, that the climate change is nothing, it's just a little hiccup in time. |
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| It is a grave matter, a substantial hiccup and a serious problem in relations between Europe and the United States. |
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| Of course, the winter quarter will ultimately determine whether this is a real trend or just a hiccup. |
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| She sobbed so hard that her chest hurt and she began to hiccup. |
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| A hiccup broke his voice as tears pearled at the rim of his eyes. |
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| Despite Mum's apprehensions we made the motorway journey from Little Walden down to the London orbital road and out to Portsmouth without a hiccup. |
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| But the challenge of acting in a major franchise was just a hiccup when compared to the challenge of acting in front of the press. |
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| He was always straight-ahead and anytime there was a hiccup or anything, he was really good at dealing with it. |
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| As it happens, the setback turned out to be the only hiccup in the 14 race series, and Andy made an astonishing recovery to claim 11 victories in his last 12 race meetings. |
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| At the time, I called it a hiccup rather than a heart attack. |
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| The finale is set in motion with a subject that incongruously combines a hiccup, a growl, a burp and a fairy dance, all within the space of a few seconds. |
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| Not that Kiev and U.S. counter-propaganda goes through without a hiccup. |
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| But I am guessing this is going to be a hiccup in his career. |
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| A hiccup was bound to come at some point for this 'run and gun' Port Adelaide side and with four losses in the last five rounds they've been struck most remorselessly by the reality bus. |
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| Since the January inflation hiccup was largely the result of one-off or temporary factors, headline inflation is expected to renew rapidly with the downward trend observed in the second part of last year. |
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| The post-war baby boom which looms so large in current thinking about population matters in Canada was just a demographic hiccup in the overall pattern of change. |
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| We need to stay the course and do what is right and get back to a stable financial market and a stable investment culture and atmosphere without this unfortunate hiccup of income trusts. |
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| It appears from what Dr. McEwan has said that this is a hiccup in the system that will iron itself out, and that we'll be okay overall in terms of iodine. |
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| There was a loud hiccup from the back of the room and the class erupted in laughter. |
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| But despite the bizarre computer problems Rover last night insisted the hiccup was nothing to do with the much-hyped Millennium bug. |
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| Delirium, hallucinations and hiccup occur rarely. |
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| The growth hiccup in the second quarter reflects to a large extent exceptional weather conditions and statistical effects but might also be a sign that the euro-area business cycle is maturing. |
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| The stock market has continued to rise, except for a slight hiccup earlier this month. |
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| Albert didn't notice the switch, the subliminal flash and hiccup in time as the man he had been talking to only seconds before was catapulted backwards half an hour. |
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| Our computer problems were caused by a hiccup in the power supply. |
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