Words similar to flailing

Example sentences for: flailing

How can you use “flailing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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.
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.
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.
The crackdown on Chechnya has swelled the popularity of Boris Yeltsin's flailing administration, but the Russian system remains robustly pluralistic.