Example sentences for: glitch

How can you use “glitch” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • glitch [from German glitschen to slip, via Yiddish glitshen to slide or skid] n.

  • USAT says that a computer system glitch mistakenly rolled back United Airline's increase in all markets and when American, Delta, and TWA saw that, they, fearing the loss of business from being underpriced, rolled their fares back too.

  • 5-million laptop owners--and more importantly, the odd fact that none of them seem to have actually suffered from the glitch.

  • The vocabulary is jocular in its easy mixture of the casual (in slang or coinages or abbreviations), the learned (in avatar, baroque, catatonic, synchronous ), the visual (in hieroglyphics or emoticons), and even the aural (in the fondness for explosives, like bang , common spoken name for !) or onomatopoeia ( bletch, glitch, gonk ).

  • USA Today goes with worries the Y2K glitch could severely affect the health care system.


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