choppy

They have a short, choppy stride, far different to the gangling gait of the American soldier.

The boat was still moving with unabated speed, and the dark, choppy water stretched all round them.

The water was choppy and roily, the canoe bobbed a good deal, the anchors dragged, and we did not see any fish.

It was at about this time that the siren in the Shed began its choppy, hiccoughing series of warm-up notes.

Or the fog comes down over a choppy sea with a whizzing wind that sets the whitecaps flying backward like a horse's mane.

Twenty odd juvenile voices resumed the choppy, monotonous chant.

Sometimes the waves are in long windrows, but oftener they are short and choppy like the surface waves of midocean.

The Fortuna rolled viciously in the trough of the choppy sea, making their footing extremely unsteady.

It came at him with a short, choppy gait, eyes half closed and mouth open as it sought any hold at all.

He stared downward at the choppy surface that seemed to sweep upward to meet him, gritting his teeth to drive fear away.