The hiccoughs were definitely sobs, hard-drawn, shaking him from head to foot.
He had to clench his teeth and his fists not to betray the fact that the hiccoughs were really convulsively swallowed sobs asserting themselves.
To cure hiccoughs repeat in one breath the words,-- There was an old woman who lived all alone, And she was made of skin and bone.
These devices for suppressing hiccoughs are scarcely superstitions in reality, as they doubtless often do relieve the nervous, spasmodic action of the respiratory muscles, by fixing the attention upon the cure.
Groups of men sang dirty songs and then there would be long silences broken only by hiccoughs or the thud of a drunk falling down.
The surroundings had disappeared, the Boulevard seemed to be dead, as if the storm had stretched the silence of its white sheet over the hiccoughs of the last drunkards.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hiccoughs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
