(a.) Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Of course this recovery which is starting is likely to be choppy and uneven.
(2) It all amounts to increasing uncertainty at Leeds, the latest squall on their voyage through choppy waters.
(3) He directed the paper through choppy waters in its relationship with the Bush administration, earning the then president's wrath with a steady stream of scoops on the US government's use of phone tapping and torture.
(4) "This report shows that the recovery will be choppy for economies around the world but confirms, like other independent forecasters including the IMF and Office for Budget Responsibility , that the UK will continue to grow steadily in the years ahead," he added.
(5) "Look, there will be choppy waters and there will be Liberal Democrats who are nervous about the figures coming out," a source close to Nick Clegg told the Observer .
(6) Poland was never expected to unseat Tusk, but the row threatens to fracture the unity European leaders are seeking in time for the EU’s 60th birthday celebrations at the end of the month and before entering the choppy waters of Brexit talks.
(7) And, as we make our way along this choppy recovery, how can we better shield bill payers from price shocks in oil and gas?
(8) To produce this fine mist of sea spray artificially, Salter envisages thousands of unmanned yachts zigzagging across the sea, carrying equipment to make very choppy waves, known as Faraday waves.
(9) But yes, it will be a choppy period that we'll go through."
(10) But if you are in choppy waters you don't change the captain."
(11) ‘owl-light’ (Lancashire) fizmer the whispering sound of wind in reeds or grass (Fenland) grimlins the night hours around midsummer when dusk blends into dawn (Orkney) The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape Read more gruffy ground the surface landscape left behind by lead-mining (Somerset) grumma a mirage caused by mist or haze (Shetland) hob-gob a dangerously choppy sea (Suffolk) muxy of land; sticky, miry, muddy (Exmoor) outshifts the fringes and boundaries of a town (Cambridgeshire) roarie-bummlers fast-moving storm clouds (Scots) snow-bones long thin patches of snow still lying after a thaw, often in dips or stream-cuts (Yorkshire) turn-whol a deep and seething pool where two quick streams meet (Cumbria) zwer the whirring sound made by a covey of partridge taking flight (Exmoor)
(12) We are headed into very, very choppy waters.” Russia and Trump: the chronicle of a scandal Read more “The pressure brought to bear on Comey could well amount to obstruction of justice depending on the intent and motive,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut.
(13) The choppy waters crash into the concrete wall creating a dramatic backdrop.
(14) While a double-dip recession remains unlikely, the survey suggests that the risk has increased and that growth looks set to be slow and choppy going forward."
(15) It was clear from the beginning, however, that writing was one of the few constants in her choppy existence.
(16) On financial markets, investors are gearing up for choppy trading between now and the 23 June vote.
(17) But we’re also very clear that there’s much much more that we want and can do to improve the business yet further.” Supermarkets including Tesco are braced for a choppy year ahead, as the sharp fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote pushes up the price of imported foods and ingredients.
(18) Hence the Godard-influenced vignette-style layering of authentic photos that place the film's events firmly into their historical context, a choppy narrative timeline and, rather more surreally, a talking dog.
(19) On currency markets the euro had a choppy day although oil prices rose amid some signs of an improvement in the US economy .
(20) Her wealth and breadth of experience will be critical in steering the CBI through choppy political and economic waters, including an EU referendum.” Fairbairn began her career as an economist at the World Bank and then worked as a journalist at the Economist and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. She was also a Downing Street policy adviser from 1995-97 when John Major was prime minister and ITV’s director of strategy between 2007 and 2010.
Spasmodic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.
(a.) Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry.
(n.) A medicine for spasm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a special electromyographic hypodermic needle, we injected botulinum A toxin into one of the vocal folds of two patients with severe spasmodic dysphonia.
(2) These experimental findings suggest that stereotactic thalamotomy of the ventrolateral nucleus for spasmodic torticollis should be performed on the side ipsilateral to the contracting SCM muscle.
(3) The patient (a 46-year-old woman) suffered from a spasmodic quadriplegia, walking was nearly impossible.
(4) 4 ng of botulinum type A toxin per eye were applied in the M. orbicularis oculi as first injection in the 18 patients without spasmodic torticollis.
(5) Spasmodic dysphonia (SD) is a low-incidence voice disorder of unknown origin.
(6) The first case was a young girl of 16 years of age with a lesion at the D6 level and spasmodic paraparesis.
(7) Bilateral TA denervation represents a hopeful new long-term approach to spasmodic dysphonia treatment.
(8) The view emerging is that spasmodic dysphonia is a manifestation of disordered motor control involving systems of neurons rather than single anatomical sites.
(9) Spasmodic attempts were made to relieve the suffering of Yarmouk’s civilians.
(10) To determine the usefulness of EMG-assisted botulinum toxin (BOTOX) injections for the treatment of spasmodic torticollis (ST), we randomized 52 ST patients into two groups and studied them prospectively.
(11) Vestibular findings in a group of 35 patients with spasmodic torticollis without other otological or neurological symptoms were reviewed.
(12) The purpose of this study was to determine whether adolescents with "spasmodic" dysmenorrhea (SD) versus "congestive" dysmenorrhea (CD) respond differently to naproxen sodium therapy.
(13) Further, he maintained that spasmodic constriction of the rectum resulted from dysfunction of this rectosigmoid sphincter.
(14) Of them only 13 (0.26% of the total patient material) were spasmodic bronchitis.
(15) The patient, a 22 year old woman, presented with a three-year history, with clinical onset of staged spinal pain and cervicobrachial neuralgia, of spasmodic paraparesis with sensory and sphincter disturbances.
(16) The first is a hemolysin (100-200,000 mol.wt) which also causes initial spasmodic contractions in larval and adult specimens of Drosophila.
(17) Laser-assisted myomectomy may be a feasible alternative to current methods to treat spasmodic dysphonia.
(18) Paroxysmal cerebellar ataxia (PCA) is a specific disease which exhibits spasmodic cerebellar ataxia but rarely shows abnormal neurological findings in the intermission.
(19) The concept of MVC might be more convincing if MVD can be shown to cure a condition such as spasmodic torticollis, which cannot be remedied by damage to or section of the same cranial nerve or nerves.
(20) The authors describe the anatomical and clinical findings in a case of the pure form of Strümpell Lorrain's familial spasmodic paraplegia.