flailing

Example Sentences

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But at the last second, Pages pulled up to let Tucker make the catch, and Tucker hesitated before flailing after it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

Messi toyed with United like a kid on the Playstation - twisting, turning, nutmegging defenders whose flailing white shirts might as well have been a call for surrender.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • May 2, 2026

In video clips, robots were seen flailing around, stumbling and falling over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

By the time I looked up again, Marlene was charging off through the snow, chasing the dog away, trumpeting as she went, her trunk flailing, her ears in full sail.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo