thrash
Example Sentences
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For those rapids were not rapids at all… but the thrashing bodies of a hundred cottonmouth snakes.
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I was thrashing feverishly on the cot one morning when the cell door opened and there stood the steel-voiced matron I had seen the night I entered the cell two weeks before.
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Lloyd thrashed in the black water and finally found his feet.
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A vise clamped around my chest, my heart thrashing inside.
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Symptoms of nocturnal seizures can include signs of sudden awakening with confusion, thrashing, violent movements, screaming, or waking up on the floor.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.