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Example sentences for: flailing

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The issue did not take for Gore, but the exchange attracted the interest of Jim Pinkerton, the research director for the then flailing Bush campaign.
But football, there's a spectator sport that I really enjoy (though this year, with the Jets flailing so miserably, it has been painful, tragic, and somewhat dull).
But after flailing away in my living room for a few nights, my interest was piqued, and I decided to find out more about the real thing.
The crackdown on Chechnya has swelled the popularity of Boris Yeltsin's flailing administration, but the Russian system remains robustly pluralistic.
In fact, as early as in the second edition of his classic, in 1957, he was worried that parents might be flailing.