Example Sentences

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The result is a film that’s engaging enough, but choppily paced and oddly inert.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2022

However, the euro was comparatively unaffected, and was last at $1.1331, marginally higher in early Asia, having traded choppily this week, but without finding a clear direction.

From Reuters • Feb. 23, 2022

She ended up teaching three classes with a document camera — designed to capture papers and static objects — pointed at her face instead, choppily recording her movements.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2020

There’s something to the Mulligan-Gabriel dynamic — and even what passes for a bit of dimension here — but it’s too choppily and awkwardly rendered.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2019

Night morphed into day as José wallowed choppily though his routines and changed clothes every ten seconds; it was like one of those arty found-footage montage movies.

From Nature • Mar. 13, 2018