hiccough

Example Sentences

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There is finally a hiccough in this Colts drive, though, as Garcon puts down a pass on third and four.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2010

The child may shake his head, nod, frown, scowl, blink, grimace, twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week one shrewd doctor decided that she had hiccoughed so long she had forgotten what it was like not to hiccough, was therefore psychologically incapable of helping herself.

From Time Magazine Archive

When she sat down at a chemin de fer table, she began to hiccough, loudly.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he wasn’t, for the moment his father peeped at him, Demi’s eyes opened, his little chin began to quiver, and he put up his arms, saying with a penitent hiccough, “Me’s dood, now.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott