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.
  • The love, the glitches, the sweat, the tears, the laughter and, and, and.
    — Tommy McArdle, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • In a video, @mfakhrihdnpng showed off how the glitch works.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 4 June 2020
  • This is one of the first times he's made aware of a glitch in the Matrix.
    — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • After a pause to get the glitch fixed, Denslow read the rule all over again.
    — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2020
  • There was a bit of a glitch with the pen’s final batter.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Jump to 16:16 in this video to see the Akuma glitch in action.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 21 June 2022
  • There even seems to be some kind of glitch on the James Brown legacy right now.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2025
  • But there’s a glitch in the matrix; too often, Black Thought’s voice is buried in the mix.
    — Joe Gross, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The Polestar is not the first EV to experience this type of glitch.
    — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The glitch occurred when the copter tried switching from pre-flight mode to flight mode.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Hopefully the chopper can bypass the glitch and take to the skies.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 30 Apr. 2021
  • What sound like glitches are fleeting glimpses of the past.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2020
  • As is the case with all new tech, there are design glitches.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The Voyager team is working hard to understand the source of the strange glitch.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 May 2022
  • TikTok faced a glitch on Thursday and the app no longer showed view and like counts on videos.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 10 July 2020
  • There was a glitch during the move that left the house parked in the street for several days, Jones said.
    — Kelly Kazek | Kkazek@al.com, al, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Brown does not appear in the video, which has a glitch when the shooting begins.
    — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2021
  • But is this a psy op, a glitch, or a secret third option?
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Once inside, Crispr made cuts at the site of the genetic glitch.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Is this a glitch or a tease of what’s to come?
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 12 Nov. 2020
  • But when a glitch causes one child to be missed, Santa's youngest son steps up to save the day.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The early part of the process has been marred by technical glitches at banks and the SBA.
    — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 13 Apr. 2020
  • In the digital world, a glitch is a rapid-fire error loop.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
  • The initial news of the talk was the big glitch: Users who tried to tune in at its 8 p.m. ET start were unable to access it.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2024
  • If murder hornets were simply a glitch to be fixed with the next patch?
    — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Does that seem like some weird, random voting glitch to you?
    — Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • In each of the recent cases, while the actual tech glitch was fixed within hours, the effects lingered on through at least the following day.
    — Barbara Peterson, AFAR Media, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Typically, an owner and his personal designer mandate the look and, minus any technical glitches with the design, the shipyard does its best to fulfill it.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2025

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