The phrase "a bumpy path" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or journey that is difficult or filled with obstacles.
Example: "The project has been a bumpy path, with many unexpected challenges along the way."
Alternatives: "a rocky road" or "a rough journey".
This is a bumpy path Taiwan has trod.
Each man had a bumpy path to power.
As such it often leads the typical fan down a bumpy path where turmoil and ecstasy go hand in hand.
Mustiness pierced my nose as we descended stairs that gave way to a bumpy path, and I concentrated on not losing my footing.
"We've gone through a bit of a bumpy path here," he said, "and I think there's an interest both within the United States and China to get back to business as usual as quickly as possible".
"Thought I was gonna be away from chemicals and breathe my clean air down here," he said ruefully before guiding his pickup truck down a bumpy path next to the future dump along a hayfield dense with dancing butterflies.
But for those with disabilities, or who have traveled a bumpier path for whatever reason, don't for one second think there isn't opportunity.
Or a subtler approach could put the country on an inevitably bumpy path towards tolerance, pluralism, decentralisation and the steady containment of violent opposition.The happier outcome won't happen fast.
If true love travels on a gravel road (in the words of the old Frazier-Owens Elvis Presley tune) then social enterprises move along a long and bumpy path.
He said Solidarity "must sometimes look the other way" as the country follows the bumpy path from a centrally planned economy, in which every worker was guaranteed a job, to a free-market system in which some level of unemployment is endemic.
But perhaps this bumpy path to market wasn't an accident or a sign of failure so much as an indication of Rihanna's new approach.
