| On this breezy late-August night, the police van hiccupped and bounced over the streets' grooves and potholes. |
| Podtikin smiled affably, hiccupped with pleasure, and doused the blini in hot butter. |
| New Yorkers most likely will remember Aug. 23, 2011, as the day the earth hiccupped for a matter of seconds, providing a worthy conversation piece but, ultimately, a fleeting interruption. |
| Mathematician benoit Mandelbrot is namedropped on page 49 in a hiccupped discussion of chaos theory. |
| It never failed to feed, it never stuttered, it never hiccupped, it never stovepiped, it just plain works. |
| She hiccupped, as though hyperventilating. |
