flailing

But I couldn’t predict how bizarre her flailing would be, especially after she publicly hugged Vance in a way that stoked widespread rumors that the two are more than friends.

I glance down into the growing chasm of the ship to see Woo flailing in the water.

Calmly the captain picked up the boy by the back of his coat and moved him, arms flailing, to sit on his mother’s other side, uncomfortably squeezed between his parents.

Shout it as loud as a Will Smith home run, ball soaring, arms flailing, blue immortality awaiting.

By the end of the month, Adams faced reality and dropped his flailing bid for re-election.