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Example sentences for: flailing

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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).
The crackdown on Chechnya has swelled the popularity of Boris Yeltsin's flailing administration, but the Russian system remains robustly pluralistic.
Armey prefers his wildlife flailing at the end of a baited hook.
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.
In fact, as early as in the second edition of his classic, in 1957, he was worried that parents might be flailing.