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Example sentences for: floundering

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The Mirror left rivals floundering yesterday when we broke the news that the Premier and his 45-year-old wife are expecting a baby in May."
USA Today goes with the apparently floundering negotiations between Lewinsky's lawyers and Kenneth Starr.
It is this gloomy but coherent vision that has made Kissinger a favorite of floundering anti-Kosovo Republicans.
People were drawn to the new capital like bees to a honey-pot, and throughout the 19th century the dispossessed of the economically floundering Aegean islands flocked here to find work.
McCain's increasing visibility is attributed to the disappearance of half the Republican campaign field, a floundering Forbes, a best-selling memoir, and the ability to draw in the politically disenchanted.