flailing

Example Sentences

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For all my mad flailing I felt myself sink as surely as I was trying to rise.

From Literature

Not everyone understood that Mary’s outflung left arm isn’t some randomly flailing appendage but a gesture pregnant with meaning—multiple ones.

From The Wall Street Journal

The water was churning and white, and something with wings and a tail was flailing.

From Literature

And what he sees, Page argues, is our own reflection — humanity, in all its fractured and flailing self-destructive foolishness.

From Los Angeles Times

Once they finish—it involved a lot of flailing arms and jumping around—we slide past.

From Literature