flailing
Example Sentences
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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
She seemed to hover for a moment, her arms and legs flailing away as if she were trying to fly.
From Literature
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
