Sentence examples for choppy in from inspiring English sources

Gold prices have been choppy in recent weeks, as two big market forces play off against each other.

Goldman gladly took the other side of the trades, but when the markets turned choppy in May, the firm was caught short and quickly lost $250 million.

The policy quickly toppled inflation to a rate that is near zero, but growth has been slow and choppy in the last five years.

Loose and casually choppy in feeling, that structure is less like a linear whodunit or one-problem "Honeymooners" episode than like a day at the office or a party.

In the US, markets are choppy in early morning trading.

The currency's trading has been choppy in recent months as traders consider whether deep spending cuts among European nations will upend the global economic recovery.

Oxford University's women's boat crew have been rescued by an RNLI lifeboat in choppy waters in the Thames during training for the Boat Race.

In South Korea, trading was choppy, but in the end the benchmark KOSPI index was the biggest winner among the major markets, rising 1.2%, to 1,537.43.

Grow up in certain homes and it's like being out on a cold, choppy sea in an open dinghy with two angry fishermen in charge.

A late rally in technology issues led the stock market higher yesterday, a choppy session in which investors pondered conflicting signals about the prospects for corporate earnings.

Never mind the choppy conditions in unfamiliar waters.