choppily

Example Sentences

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With so much chronological haphazardness, the handsomely produced if choppily edited “Freud’s Last Session” becomes trapped in a no-patient’s-land, neither effectively enlarged nor satisfyingly intimate.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

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

The fight scenes, full of swordplay and gunfire, are choppily edited and somehow lackadaisical.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 22, 2021

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