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.
  • This is one of the first times he's made aware of a glitch in the Matrix.
    Marcus Jones, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Voyager team is working hard to understand the source of the strange glitch.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Any random glitch that flips the value of a bit will cause an error.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
  • That’s why this latest glitch in payments is so painful.
    Washington Post, 30 July 2021
  • But even so, PinkPantheress seems like a glitch in the Matrix.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2021
  • That could be an ominous sign for the market, and for the funds themselves as glitches emerge.
    Jesse Pound, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Is that a glitch or Frank messing with her head as some sort of punishment?
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
  • 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 attack on Wednesday suggested that if there was such a glitch, it had been fixed.
    Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Jace struggles with his glitch and resists becoming part of the group.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 18 Oct. 2022
  • All this might not have been possible if not for that propulsion glitch.
    New York Times, 14 June 2021
  • The glitch had no follow-on impact on prices or trading and was quickly resolved by the LME.
    Mark Burton, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But rewinding the state of the universe plus an extra photon creates a glitch.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • It can also be triggered by app or browser glitches, and is usually out of the user's control.
    Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2024

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