How to Use choppy in a Sentence

choppy

adjective

• 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
• Her hair is long and loose per usual, but enhanced by fresh set of choppy, perfectly imperfect bangs.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 22 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024