hiccough

How To Use hiccough In A Sentence

• A suitable ‘expectation’ of Aristophanes is raised by the ludicrous circumstance of his having the hiccough, which is appropriately cured by his substitute, the physician The Symposium
• You can usually get rid of hiccoughs by drinking water very quickly.
• Or who just glided effortlessly through life with nary a hiccough, much less a contretemps? On David Remnick, Jack Cashill, and the authorship of “Dreams From My Father”
• Every hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. Les Miserables
• With that he hiccoughed again, at least a 7.5 on the hiccough scale, and keeled over sideways. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
• Hiccough" is a perfectly acceptable alternate spelling of "hiccup," and in fact precedes the latter; "hiccup" is a mistaken phoneticization that's stuck. This Comic Is Good – Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
• No sobs or splutters or hiccoughs spilled from her trembling lip, although, her lip did tremble.
• Aristophanes is raised by the ludicrous circumstance of his having the hiccough, which is appropriately cured by his substitute, the physician Symposium
• When I ha 'baked Depper's fourses cake, and sent it off by' Meelyer's little gal -- she ha 'lent her to me to go back and forth to the harvest-field,' Meelyer have -- I kin go," the wife said; "not afore," hiccoughing loudly over the tea she tried to drink; "not afore -- not afore! A Sheaf of Corn
• I did have one minor hiccough where the tension decided to go do-lally for no particular reason (i.e. wasn't at a bobbin change, etc) but I did catch it before I'd sewed too much, and of course, when the tension goes odd, it's often easy to unpick as one of the threads is just lying there with big loops around it ... One Hawaiian Down...