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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.
He described all his work as "documents"--that is, not the poems, essays, polemics they seem to be, and certainly not "art," but mere records of his flailing attempts to reach the elusive substance of Truth.
Armey prefers his wildlife flailing at the end of a baited hook.
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).
By the end of his book, Walsh has unwittingly painted himself as Ahab without a whale, flailing after targets large and small in his attempt to vindicate his effort.