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How to use glitch in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun, verb

Glitch means a problem affecting function. Example: “They are still trying to work out all the glitches.”

Examples of glitch by meaning

nounA problem affecting function.

  • They are still trying to work out all the glitches.
  • Glitches—a spaceman’s word for irritating disturbances.1965, Time magazine
  • A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix.1999, The Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix (motion picture), spoken by Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss)

nounAn unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior...

  • Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was "glitch." Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical circuit which takes place when the circuit suddenly has a new load put on it.1962, John Glenn, Into Orbit, London: Cassell

nounA bug or an exploit.

  • Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.

nounA genre of experimental electronic music since the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that...

  • You can hear this in the contemporary genre of ‘glitch’, where artists like Oval and Fennesz make radically beautiful music using the snaps, crackles and pops emitted by damaged CDs, malfunctioning software, etc.2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 313

verbTo experience an unexpected, typically intermittent malfunction.

  • My computer keeps glitching; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
  • Jake’s parents, played unnervingly well by Colette and Thewlis, are like alien robots who have been programmed to behave like human beings, but keep glitching.2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC

verbTo perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.

  • His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.

More sentences with glitch

  • The game glitched out and I had to relog before I could continue playing.From the entry relog
  • The software glitch caused an overcharge.From the entry overcharge
  • Sure enough, Mozz and their fellow glitch hunters were able to replicate them.2023 June 6, Lewos Gordon, “Tears of the Kingdom glitch hunters aren’t just breaking the game — they’re expanding it”, in The Verge…. From the entry glitch hunter
  • He is the Devil's concubine!” “Probably a computer glitch.” “Quickly, Jefferson!2018 August 5, Jackson Publick, “The Venture Bros. & The Curse of the Haunted Problem” (19:06 from the start), in The Venture Bros.…. From the entry prisebar
  • Still frames from a datamoshed (glitched) MPEG video showing time–motion displacement (the graphic, repeating elements).2016, Michael Betancourt, Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space, Routledge. From the entry datamosh
  • Shout-outs again to Sockfolder for discovering the glitch and writing this code.2016 September 19, Ben Kuchera, quoting scrumpee, “Intricate Legend of Zelda glitch allows you to warp straight to Zelda”, in Polygon…. From the entry glitch hunter
  • Typos are the processing glitches that intercede between a thought and its expression.2009, Geoff Nunberg, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times, page 59. From the entry thinko
  • If you're reading another group through Deja and you see it there, that's a glitch at Deja.2000 August 28, stevenson deborah j, “"White Trash"”, in rec.equestrian (Usenet), archived from the original on 18 Aug 2026. From the entry Dejaer
  • This glitch can misclock the DMA state controller and indirectly mess up the memory unit in use.1977, Conference Proceedings: Computer Faire, page 288. From the entry misclock
  • On Friday, amid increased traffic from the Outside Lands music festival, a number of self-driving cards seemed to glitch.2023 August 14, Kari Paul, “Robotaxi breakdowns cause mayhem in San Francisco days after expansion vote”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry mayhem
  • Some people linked to other Reddit threads about photos of time travel 'proof' or 'glitches in the matrix'.2016 April 27, Lauren Ingram, “'I guess I know what my son will look like in 70 years': Dad comes face to face with the 'future version'…. From the entry glitch in the Matrix
  • Now all it needs is a glitch in technology.2013 August 31, “Code blue”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2023. From the entry take
  • I am pretty sure it's another computer glitch, but hey, it's not my fault and it's perfectly legal.2004, R. Broadhead, Dear Valued Customer, You Are A Loser, Andrews McMeel Publishing, page 89. From the entry but hey
  • The output of a multiplexer can also be glitchy due to the propagation of glitches from the data and select inputs.1996, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design: 1996 : November 10-14, 1996, San Jose, CA : Digest of Technical Papers…. From the entry glitchy
  • Her owlism and his larkism are mild forms of circadian-rhythm glitches known as delayed- and advanced- sleep phase syndromes.1994, Shape - Volume 13, Issues 9-12, page 109. From the entry owlism
  • Earlier this month a technical glitch involving LTN data resulted in dozens of roads in Oxford incorrectly appearing as closed on satellite navigation devices.2021 June 19, “Hundreds protest over Oxford Low Traffic Neighbourhoods”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2021. From the entry oxford
  • I'm a huge fan of movement glitches (strafe-jumping and ramp-jumping made Quake 2 for me) so I hope CDPR don't patch this out, especially as it's a singleplayer game.2021 January 5, Alice O'Connor, “Cyberpunk 2077 bunnyhopping is a bug I hope they don't fix”, in Rock Paper Shotgun, archived from the…. From the entry skill ceiling
  • He had to finally consider the possibility that this was a genuine electronic switchboarding glitch, and what he was hearing was not intended for his benefit.2000, Darrell Schweitzer, Jason Van Hollander, Nightscapes: Tales of the Ominous and Magical, page 109. From the entry switchboarding

Meaning of glitch

  1. noun A problem affecting function.
  2. noun An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.
  3. noun A bug or an exploit.

Full definition of glitch

Questions about glitch in a sentence

How do you use glitch in a sentence?
Glitch is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They are still trying to work out all the glitches.”
What is a short sentence with glitch?
“Glitches—a spaceman’s word for irritating disturbances.”
What does glitch mean?
Glitch means a problem affecting function.

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