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Example sentences for: flailing

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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.
Armey prefers his wildlife flailing at the end of a baited hook.
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.
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.