choppily

The motor continued to run choppily for a few seconds and then quit.

Her engine ran choppily, missed, fired again, and then died.

Then the car was running, choppily, missing on two cylinders, but really running.

The narrative in these early pages is on the bare-bones side and choppily organized.

Harnak nodded again, less choppily, and Tharnatus slapped his arm.

The blades of the heliporter missed a beat and we dropped a yard, but then they cut choppily back in.

"Put me on record," Hill told his white-faced com officer, and the lieutenant nodded choppily.

He held it for another five or ten seconds, then exhaled noisily, opened his eyes, and nodded choppily.

Speaking choppily, the Korean stared about in dazed fashion.

These Erasers moved more in sync with one another than the others they had encountered, but still awkwardly, choppily.

His text is haphazardly organized and choppily written.

He held Hillyard's eyes fiercely until the exec nodded choppily, then rubbed his face again.

-her father's probable reaction to that imagery and nodded choppily for him to go on.

Tamman's voice was flat, and Sean nodded choppily.

The calls are series of piercing sharp whistles rising in pitch but shrill and choppily delivered.

The Hawk's engine ran choppily and stalled.

The last APU was roaring choppily, cycling up and down, shaking the plane.

This is a space issue: the Harn has less of it and what there is is somewhat choppily arranged.

The playing is powerful, if somewhat choppily mannered, which is intensified by the percussiveness of the piano.

The motor gunned and roared choppily.

Choppily, Dronz gave orders.

Among other structural flaws, the scenes of the play proceed choppily, and its Cinderella ending feels rushed and perfunctory.

Choppily, Yeddo spat the words: "You cannot be The Shadow!"