How to Use glitch in a Sentence

glitch

noun
  • Glitches in the speaker's schedule caused some delays.
  • A technical glitch caused a temporary shutdown.
  • There was a bit of a glitch with the pen’s final batter.
    Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Dave Davies learned the hard way this week what happens when there’s a glitch in the Matrix.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2023
  • As is the case with all new tech, there are design glitches.
    Clio Chang, Curbed, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Flowers is a 5-foot-9 big-play threat whose jump cuts look like video game glitches.
    Mike Tanier, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Monday’s outage marked the second Twitter glitch in less than a week and the third in under a month.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The glitch had no follow-on impact on prices or trading and was quickly resolved by the LME.
    Mark Burton, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2023
  • One of the last to do so, citing a technical glitch for his delay, was McCarthy.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2023
  • There’s a ticketing glitch, and passengers have to buy new tickets to get to their cruise or to get home.
    Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • But what if one small glitch in a virus’ makeup changed everything?
    Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The bank itself said that faulty software from one of Swisscom AG’s contractors caused the glitch.
    Bastian Benrath, Fortune Europe, 27 Feb. 2024
  • But for young people, who are embracing typewriters and vinyl, the glitches are part of the charm.
    Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Behind all of this, in a market economy there’s sort of a basic glitch.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Even the technical glitches were embraced as a sign of the candidate’s strength.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 25 May 2023
  • There was a glitch with the big screen when Cena went for the Attitude Adjustment, and the action was not aired on the big screen for the remainder of the match.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The importance of that infrastructure became all too clear with the FAA’s glitch last week.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2023
  • There were a few glitches during the lead-up to their special day, as Crawley's dress was stolen from her car a few days prior.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
  • While some opening day glitches can be expected, Ohio State does not have long to solve them.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The organization has not yet provided a clear cause for the glitch.
    Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Benavidez's ring entrance has a glitch with the music, but it is corrected, and the big fella is greeted with cheers.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The ugly One brief glitch that turned Miles Morales into a disembodied head.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The broken web apps appeared to be a glitch at the time, but this seems less likely now that the broken feature has made its way into the third beta of iOS 17.4.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Be prepared for the occasional glitch that will require you to reboot to get things up and running again.
    Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In addition, there is still yet another glitch to deal with.
    Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The glitch was causing the company’s internal accounting to overstate the amount the hedge fund owed back to FTX customers.
    Eli Tan, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • One of the stars of The Crown just delivered a royal reaction to an apparent audio glitch at the 2024 Golden Globes.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Will Ticketmaster’s plan to stagger ticket sales and to do something to fend off bots result in a glitch-free process?
    Peter Cohan, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Sources are saying an apparent software glitch caused the older version to be used.
    Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 15 June 2023
  • What remains is a glitch, a bit of hesitation, the suggestion of something amiss.
    Niela Orr, New York Times, 6 July 2023

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