How to Use choppy in a Sentence

choppy

adjective
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  • Swipe to the fourth slide to see a close-up of the choppy bangs' uneven ends.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note has been choppy.
    — WSJ, 26 Sep. 2023
  • His friends scoured the choppy waters for half an hour, then called the Coast Guard to help in the search.
    — Jillian Sykes, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The waves were too choppy for his boat to be towed back to the marina that day.
    — oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The water was choppy and the rocking of the boat knocked her phone out of her pocket.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The lyrics changed; the rhythm changed; the chords and the melody went from being quick and choppy to deeply madly infectious.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • Cathedral held off Fishers 47-44 in a game that was choppy and without much of a flow from the jump.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Feb. 2023
  • These lifts stop the dance phrase, even if only briefly, leading to a choppy texture.
    — Elizabeth Kendall, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • His neon-yellow wig has been styled with choppy layers and short bangs.
    — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
  • The swell, which will arrive from the west-northwest, will peak Sunday evening and will turn choppy as coastal winds pick up.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Her choppy bangs just grazed her eyebrows while the rest of her black waves cascaded to her chest.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The fringe hits just above her brows; this isn't a thick, full retro bang, but instead a choppy, wispier texture to add to the rock chick vibe of the song and video.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 22 Mar. 2024
  • However, the waters of Beaver Lake were choppy that day.
    — Joseph Wilkinson New York Daily News (tns), al, 12 Apr. 2023
  • That choppy air would reduce the performance of any turbine that was downwind of the first one.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2023
  • Its choppier tones, and nostalgic feel brought his fans back to a time when New York ruled hip-hop.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Though hardly the stuff of the rousing crusty Irish jigs and reels that would follow as part of the Pogues, MacGowan’s first, choppy record signaled things to come.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The reality star chose a chic black design and went for short, choppy bangs.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The editing was also choppy at times, and there seemed to be no real flow to the season in terms of tribe dynamics.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Banks can earn more from trading when markets are choppy.
    — Patricia Kowsmann, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The editing was also choppy at times and there seemed no real flow to the season in terms of tribe dynamics.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
  • The boat’s twin hulls were designed with fine entries engineered to slice through choppy seas.
    — Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The picture that emerges is a universe that looks like a choppy sea, churned by violent events that happened over the course of the past 13 billion-plus years.
    — Joel Achenbach and Victoria Jaggard, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
  • With a blunt, choppy finish on ends, the jawline-grazing haircut looked lived-in and flattering, and was styled with a slight bend through the mid-lengths.
    — Hannah Coates, Allure, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Then, after an up-and-down spring training, Rodriguez opened the season in Triple-A, and the team used his choppy camp as reasoning.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2024
  • At low tide there’s access to shallower parts of Siletz Bay, and on stormy winter days Taft is home to big, choppy waves coming in off the ocean.
    — oregonlive, 5 June 2021
  • Most of the performances skim the surface of the characters, the songs are mostly forgettable and the pacing feels choppy.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Overcast skies and rain are expected to be in place for much of the rest of the week, with choppy seas leading to a high rip current risk along the Florida coast.
    — Nicholas Reimann, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • One day, a strapping Viscountess sets out on choppy waters to swim to a distant rock.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
  • Keep that in mind, and your funding process just may prove to be some smooth sailing in the current economy’s choppy waters.
    — Elena Volotovskaya, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • There are umbrellas on the beach in front of the property, but don’t come expecting a dip in the ocean, though; the water here’s too choppy for swimming.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 29 June 2023

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