flailing
Example Sentences
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Frederick and Bruno squealed and ran, flailing their arms.
From Literature
Only Byrne’s flashes of humor and desperately flailing humanity keep her on this side of monstrous.
From Los Angeles Times
With the puck inches away from sneaking past him, a desperate, flailing Hellebuyck reached back and somehow managed to deflect it away at the last possible moment.
Netflix is offering $27.75 a share but will take only the streaming and studio businesses, leaving Warner shareholders with the flailing cable TV business.
Rowan and Jonn slipped and fell, their hands flailing helplessly, their feet sliding from beneath them as they struggled to rise and run again.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
