How To Use Hiccup In A Sentence
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This bout of introspection has been brought on by my most recent ethical hiccup.
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Then came our first slight hiccup.
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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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Thursday's trading glitch -- in which the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted over 500 points in five minutes -- was not the first time U.S. markets have hiccuped, nor will it be the last.
How The Dow's Dramatic Plunge Could Have Been Prevented
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When that happens, it will make all previous technological revolutions seem like minor hiccups.
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But it may halt your hiccups, too.
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Elsewhere, though, there has been the odd hiccup.
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She gave a loud hiccup.
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We may feel the presentation had hiccups.
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Hiccups, more officially referred to as singultus, from Latin - to catch your breath while sobbing are repeated, spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm causing a quick inhalation, which is then cut short by an involuntary closing of the glottis.
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This one defeat was the only hiccup in the team's steady progress up the League.
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Of course, there could be hiccups along the way.
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It's just a slight hiccup.
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My eyes stung brutally and I started to hiccup.
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Persistent hiccups (lasting for more than 48 hours) is rare, but may be caused by an underlying disease.
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In the middle of the prayer there was a loud hiccup from the priest.
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He treated a patient in the emergency room who suffered from hiccups every two seconds for three days.
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We may feel the presentation had hiccups.
Christianity Today
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But despite impressive growth over the last ten years, it has experienced a few hiccups along the way and is currently going through a difficult period.
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Swigging something from plastic cups, they grew red-faced and raucous, hiccupping and screeching.
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I breathed irregularly, occasionally hiccuping in my attempts to stop crying.
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Stoick, the Viking father whose body and expectations loom over the slightish Hiccup.
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Another downer is that nicotine chewing gum gives you hiccups.
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Despite that hiccup the fact remains that Denmark have a genuinely decent side.
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The guard, obviously drunk, stumbled over, hiccuping.
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But he has proved a fast learner and there have been no more hiccups.
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In the middle of the prayer there was a loud hiccup from the priest.
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For some 15 minutes strings surged ahead in deliciously hiccupping fugal patterns overlaid with intricate, delicate percussion.
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The lift-off took place with a Disco at Tramore Racecourse and ninety teenagers supported the fund raising venture and thoroughly enjoyed themselves without the merest hint of a hiccup.
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In France, Dr. Olivier Ameisen, a prominent cardiologist, says he was cured of his alcoholism by a common drug called baclofen, which helps prevent the muscle spasms behind a whole range of conditions from hiccups to multiple sclerosis symptoms.
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It came out then, in jumbles, mixed with hiccuped tears.
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Minor side effects from the gum include lightheadedness, nausea, mouth and throat irritation, hiccups, and an excess amount of saliva.
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But I'm willing to overlook small hiccups in an otherwise amazing release.
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I ate too quickly and got hiccups.
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Soon you shall hear and feel the belly of this planet roar, hiccup belch and spew.
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All businesses suffer IT hiccups, but one on which people so rely cannot justify allowing one to knock it so senseless.
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The longest case of hiccups I've seen in a patient lasted two years.
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Going by the UK's progress, there could be a few hiccups along the way.
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A giggle, more a hiccup in sound than anything, emerged from her pursed lips.
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A 47-year-old man began having painful hiccups several times a minute after undergoing an exploratory laparotomy.
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Eileen hiccuped --- quite unromantically --- turned her nose sharply into his cheek and then dropped her bag, heavily, onto his feet.
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Slowly my sobs subsided and all that was left was my hiccups which sounded off every once and a while.
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TO most of us a bout of hiccups is annoying for the few minutes it lasts.
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It is already running at 99 per cent capacity, with the result that it can take only a tiny hiccup to cause havoc.
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If the snake so much as hiccups as the rat inches along, the market analysts and social prognosticators pounce.
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Jake is back on his feet and is doing well apart from a couple of minor hiccups.
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Elsewhere, though, there has been the odd hiccup.
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But hiccups within the supply chain can cause serious problems, as has been shown by the tragic Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
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There had been no obvious signs of an impending collapse, except that he had been suffering a disturbing bout of hiccups for three weeks.
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A fun, creative period is on its way, so use this positive energy to clear up any recent hiccups with lovers.
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Like sneezing, hiccupping is a reflex.
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All businesses suffer IT hiccups, but one on which people so rely cannot justify allowing one to knock it so senseless.
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They married two years later, and their relationship endured, with occasional hiccups, for nearly six decades.
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To mix it up, he'd give speeches while so drunk he hiccuped.
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They should carry out a simple risk analysis, looking at the big issues that can threaten a project as well as the minor hiccups that can occur.
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Hiccough" is a perfectly acceptable alternate spelling of "hiccup," and in fact precedes the latter; "hiccup" is a mistaken phoneticization that's stuck.
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The baby had clearly been crying, but was now calm, hiccuping around the chubby thumb he had placed in his mouth.
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A man who has suffered with almost incessant hiccups for five months has appealed for help to find a cure.
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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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How to Train Your Dragon is the story of Hiccup, heir of Viking chiefdom and the most lovable, unlikely hero, and his quest to hunt down the fiercest dragon, bring it into submission, and pass his initiation.
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Later there was a telephone call, Marya hiccuping through tears and speaking in anxious half-Polish phrases.
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While what really causes hiccups is unknown, it could be the act of swallowing the sugar that stops the reflex spasm.
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There were a few minor hiccups in the space shuttle launch.
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A fun, creative period is on its way, so use this positive energy to clear up any recent hiccups with lovers.
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But it may halt your hiccups, too.
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As he hops between them - in what may be the band's most annoying tic - he makes a sound somewhere between a yodel and a hiccup.
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She looked decidedly unimpressed with the boys' antics, or her hiccups, or something.
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(It also lands him with a possibly life threatening case of the hiccups, which accounts for the caesurae in the following quote):
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Hiccups in dogs, just as in people, are caused when a spasm of the muscular diaphragm creates a sudden inhalation followed by a closure of the glottis.
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This gives you time to chase it up if there have been any hiccups.
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We've planned it down to the last detail-we don't want any unexpected hiccups.
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The other day, I had her [Marlie] on the bed asking her to make a "happy face, sad face" to cough, to sneeze, to hiccup and then, for kicks, to poot.
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The data collection for the main study itself went smoothly, with only very minor local hiccups.
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All businesses suffer IT hiccups, but one on which people so rely cannot justify allowing one to knock it so senseless.
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Forget breathing into a paper bag, gulping down a glass of water or having someone scare the living daylights out of you to cure a case of hiccups.
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Perphenazine therapy for anxiety and depression was associated with hiccups in a 32 - year - old man.
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In the middle of the prayer there was a loud hiccup from the priest.
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There had been no obvious signs of an impending collapse, except that he had been suffering a disturbing bout of hiccups for three weeks.
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A hiccup broke his voice as tears pearled at the rim of his eyes.
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Chewing the gum is certainly less harmful than smoking cigarettes, but nicotine can be irritating to the digestive tract, causing hiccups, heartburn and nausea.
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It had a picture of a red-nosed boozehound on it, like Andy Capp, and little hiccup bubbles that floated above him.
I know i am, but what are you?
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Maybe so, but the system still suffered from technical hiccups.
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I sat on the tarnished blue tiles of the bathroom floor, hiccuping, ‘I have to tell you something, Con,’ I murmured, my voice scratchy.
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Two days before admission he noted abdominal distension and began to hiccup.
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All businesses suffer IT hiccups, but one on which people so rely cannot justify allowing one to knock it so senseless.
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This one defeat was the only hiccup in the team's steady progress up the League.
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You would always rather not have small hiccups in the final two weeks before a race, but he does seem to have bounced back very quickly.
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TO most of us a bout of hiccups is annoying for the few minutes it lasts.
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A recent sales hiccup is nothing to panic about.
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Should the disease take an unfavorable turn, the pulse grows more feeble and frequent, the tongue dryer and more cracked, the skin cold and mottled; while hiccup, subsultus, dyspnoea or coma comes on and death closes the scene by claiming its victim.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
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Anyone who has prolonged hiccups, however, should have a diagnostic workup to rule out a serious medical condition.
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TO most of us a bout of hiccups is annoying for the few minutes it lasts.
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Chronic hiccup is an intractable disease and its pathogenesis is still unclear.
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Hiccups are the spasmodic, involuntary contraction of the diaphragm that is caused by irritation of the nerves that supply these muscles.
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Examples include 'supervivant' (a survivor), 'transmural' (situated beyond a wall), 'singultus' (hiccup) and 'breviloquent' (pithy and succinct in speech).
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Maybe so, but the system still suffered from technical hiccups.
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Lamb vindaloo is deliciously spicy enough to give us the hiccups.
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I hugged her and soothed her back as she began hiccuping and sobbing.
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Despite a few minor hiccups the traffic flowed in and out of the site with ease.
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Despite Mum's apprehensions we made the motorway journey from Little Walden (north of Cambridge) down to the London orbital road and out to Portsmouth without a hiccup.
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Then came our first slight hiccup.
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We've had one or two slight hiccups, but progress has generally been quite steady.
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But hiccups within the supply chain can cause serious problems, as has been shown by the tragic Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
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It was an accent or a hiccup in her pronunciation that made all the difference.
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When talking[sentence dictionary], he hiccupped and lit a cigarette.
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Then came our first slight hiccup.
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To further obfuscate matters, he hiccups, barks, yaps, and swallows his rhymes.
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There had been no obvious signs of an impending collapse, except that he had been suffering a disturbing bout of hiccups for three weeks.
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That a minor hiccup could occur during brain development in the womb, perhaps caused by a hormonal glitch, or environmental factors such as administration of diethylstilboestrol during pregnancy seems very plausible.
Brains, Gender, Humour, Pain, and possibly Depression
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This bout of introspection has been brought on by my most recent ethical hiccup.
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It's just a slight hiccup.
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It's just a slight hiccup.
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A young baby may frequently get a bout of hiccups during or soon after a feed.
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Because the on the alkalinize infant is unknown, gabapentin hiccups should wreak mutagen in stabilizers who are eugenol measely if the cohorts unknowingly outweigh the risks. 1 billion for the tidal fortified an slideshow over the rapidly victory of.
Wii-volution
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She hiccuped and for a second her face faded, then she swallowed back into herself the words.
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Despite the odd few hiccups the ban has been a huge success and I've no doubt that it will have a long-term impact on our country's health.
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Thought you might like to know, i've stumbled across two other unsettling algorithmic hiccups: searching for "11-year-olds" gets you ebay ads for children, and searching for "ringworm" results in "sexy ringworm singles." i've got screenshots of each on my blog: one, two.
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Objective To probe into the effects of methylphenidate injecting in Zusanli point on patients with hiccup post cerebrocranial trauma.
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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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A good brain hiccup or an overly playful mind could come up with a phrase like that.
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Hiccups are believed to be caused mainly by irritation of either the phrenic or vagus nerves anywhere along their paths.
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Everyday hiccups don't need medical treatment, as they will go away on their own.
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Q I get terrible bouts of hiccups.
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There have been hiccups and faux pas in the past, albeit most of them storms in a teacup.
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I sobbed, uncontrollably, starting to shake and hiccup I was crying so much.
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But it may halt your hiccups, too.
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It's just a slight hiccup.
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You would always rather not have small hiccups in the final two weeks before a race, but he does seem to have bounced back very quickly.
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I had a normal pregnancy with no complications except that I got the hiccups a lot.
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Loud snores started to come out of him as occasional hiccups followed.
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Her dark eyes are wide with childish terror, and she hiccups so dramatically that, at first, she cannot speak at all.
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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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There were a few hiccupy sounds and then Sophie shot out from behind the door.
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I love your brother," Val says to Gary with glassy, swacked eyes, and she hiccups.
"You Go"
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I stopped hiccuping and reached for the punch.
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When you have to hiccup, drink a glass of cold water
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Windows booted without any hiccups, and to test load performance I ran a cruncher (Seti@Home) on it for about 10 minutes before concluding that the new speeds were solid.
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Fire up your PC, and presto, you've got 24/7 access to every hiccup in the financial markets.
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However, all sides are insisting this is a temporary hiccup that can be overcome.
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The story Ben tells me is that he walked me back, me hiccuping and gagging from time to time, until we got to his dorm.
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Q I get terrible bouts of hiccups.
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Maybe so, but the system still suffered from technical hiccups.
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If a dropsical patient be seized with hiccup the case is hopeless.
Aphorisms
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This bout of introspection has been brought on by my most recent ethical hiccup.
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TO most of us a bout of hiccups is annoying for the few minutes it lasts.
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He still holds the record for the longest hiccuping bout.
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Other medications were tried but did not stop the hiccups.
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There had been no obvious signs of an impending collapse, except that he had been suffering a disturbing bout of hiccups for three weeks.
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Small hiccups don't look set to stand in her way, though.
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My face red and blotchy, I leaned back in the seat, hiccuping now from trying to slow down the tears.
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It was difficult to breathe inbetween his spasms of hiccups and tears.
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Mary began to hiccup, her efforts at trying to not cry getting the best of her.
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Maybe so, but the system still suffered from technical hiccups.
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I had to laugh when I saw your article on curing hiccups with a spoonful of sugar.
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This one defeat was the only hiccup in the team's steady progress up the League.
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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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Minor side effects include light-headedness, nausea, sore mouth, sore throat, hiccups and excess amount of saliva.
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Despite a few hiccups along the way, the verdict from teachers and pupils is that it has been worth the wait!
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Kidney disease can lead to a build-up of toxins in the bloodstream and mineral disturbances which can trigger hiccups.
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It is especially useful for afterpains and will also effectively treat digestive discomfort including cramps, flatulence and hiccups.
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To me, this isn't the occasional mnemonic hiccup, it's a cognitive hacking cough.
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She hiccupped, her hand too tardy to reach her mouth before the din was out.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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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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It is already running at 99 per cent capacity, with the result that it can take only a tiny hiccup to cause havoc.
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I finally started to cry like a child, the kind where your sobs make slow, choky connections to hiccups, nose and mouth all kind of linked with spitty suspension bridges that you have to unstring with wet fists and fingers because you never have a tissue handy.
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The scornful laughter of the corpulent man was accompanied by a slight hiccuping.
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These businesses will indeed suffer earnings hiccups, as they always have.
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The car was superb all year and we have had one small hiccup at the wrong time.
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Small hiccups don't look set to stand in her way, though.
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This was a mistake, a glitch or hiccup in Lara's life plans.
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She's got to get rid of this before she becomes like that guy in Iowa who hiccupped for more than sixty years.
GOING OUT
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To add extra indignity to his humiliation he is suffering from a bout of hiccups that threatens to enter the Guinness Book of Records.
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A fun, creative period is on its way, so use this positive energy to clear up any recent hiccups with lovers.
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It's a real-life, working home — now twisting and groaning under the thrall of a tectonic hiccup.
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And those hiccupping layers of counterpoint and colours?
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Hiccups, heartburn, colds and warts are often treated with remedies passed down from one generation to another.
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This sent her into even more dramatic hysterics and she began hiccuping unbecomingly.
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The longest case of hiccups I've seen in a patient lasted two years.
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Small hiccups don't look set to stand in her way, though.
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And she has shown no signs of stopping ever since — hiccuping up to 100 times a day.
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how do you cure the hiccups?
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There were the usual hiccups that come with any new business.
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You would always rather not have small hiccups in the final two weeks before a race, but he does seem to have bounced back very quickly.
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Caitlin quietly obliged, hiccuping as she went.
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Obviously there are issues to be worked out about the privacy of your computer and so forth, but these really are minor hiccups in ironing out what it is people actually want (hysterical copy-fighter rantings notwithstanding).
Publishing Enemy No 1
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A young baby may frequently get a bout of hiccups during or soon after a feed.
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The show was not without a few hiccups and it took a while for the sound technician to tweak the sound to the performer's satisfaction.
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However, as with any transition, we expect there will be a few hiccups along the way, and you may even see some short-term interruption in the availability of our eBooks, especially in the first few days, as systems are being adapted to accommodate changes.
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We've had one or two slight hiccups, but progress has generally been quite steady.
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While the education authority is keen to talk up the new system, it admits there are likely to be hiccups as it beds in.
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Jindal writes that afterwards, his friend was no longer afflicted, except for one demonological hiccup.
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He has treated three other chronic hiccup patients with some success by implanting what's called a vagus nerve stimulator.
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A recent sales hiccup is nothing to panic about.
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It is already running at 99 per cent capacity, with the result that it can take only a tiny hiccup to cause havoc.
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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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Soon, my tears were gone and I was just hiccuping and sniffling.
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At times 25,000-plus onlookers were struck dumb by tension and anticipation, a hiccup resounding like a roar.
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While what really causes hiccups is unknown, it could be the act of swallowing the sugar that stops the reflex spasm.
The Sun
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You can usually get rid of hiccups by drinking water very quickly.
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Hm hm hm hm '' - she mimics a hiccupy laugh, like a man clearing his throat very gently.
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