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Example sentences for: flailing

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Bush, who gets high marks for his positivism and inclusiveness, may succeed in the 2000 presidential race, because he can steer clear of the flailing Republicans in Washington.
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.
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.
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.