flailing

Example Sentences

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Once considered a canny innovator, and then, with his purchase of the flailing Washington Post, a white knight, he has since become the embodiment of capitalism run amok.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

“They’ve been flailing for several years,” Rob Britton, a professor at Georgetown University, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • May 2, 2026

The United States, on the other hand, is flailing mightily.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026

Four years later, Trimble was left flailing at a rampaging Jonathan Davies who sprinted away to cross for two tries in the 2012 victory that set Wales on to a Grand Slam.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

Turn around, flailing my arms, find the keg bobbing next to me.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick