Examples of choppy

• Most of the travellers seemed limp and exhausted, and were pale with the pallor that comes of a choppy Channel crossing. 

• The boat was still moving with unabated speed, and the dark, choppy water stretched all round them. 

• The sea being choppy, by this time the vessel echoed from end to end with groans and lamentations. 

• The wind was quite high, which made the water choppy. 

• We had a very choppy crossing, and you would most certainly have been sick had you been on board. 

• We are passing through choppy waters, and some water is slopping over the side.

• My second point deals with the form which family courts should take; and here we are in choppy waters.

• We have heard that cruise liners could not send passengers to the island last year because of the choppy water.