Flailing

Word FLAILING
Character 8
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈfleɪlɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Flailing"

What do we mean by flailing?

To beat using a flail or similar implement.

To wave or swing vigorously

To thresh.

To move like a flail.

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The word "flailing" in example sentences

But try anyway, your hysterical flailing is quite amusing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More screaming and flailing from the floor of the House will not, as Boehner said, "reflect the will of the American people." ❋ Jonathan Capehart (2010)

Nah, this is just more desperate flailing from a desperate clueless campaign. ❋ Unknown (2008)

John McCain -- flailing about for an economic policy -- has seemed bolder, or perhaps just noisier, on this front. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Uliassutai Karakoram Blake shouted in English, flailing his arms out and thrusting his head a few inches from the face of the startled young Chinese. ❋ Michener, James (1959)

All the otherwise fast people would either drown from laughing at me in the water, or would be too busy gossiping about the whatever a newbie triathelete is called flailing around on the swim, and then I'd smoke 'em on the bike, with enough cushion for the run. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

Sharpe landed heavily, fell, and he came up with the sword flailing at the man he had wounded. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1985)

In one exchange, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) pressed BP on why it seemed to be "flailing" to deal with a spill only 2 percent as large as what it had said it could handle in its license application. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Grand Central publisher and executive vice president Jamie Raab said she liked to call him "The Professor" because Pockell knew so much about so many subjects and would become visibly animated in discussion, his hands "flailing" everywhere. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yes so that ` s-- and I was sort of the one kind of flailing in the back. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But watch: Romney will begin to flip-flop so fast he'll become a blur -- and then it will changed to "flailing". ❋ Unknown (2009)

If nothing else, perhaps we can be sure that an Obama presidency would be absent this kind of flailing, destructive, death by a thousand cuts tantrum-like HRC behavior. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jim Geraghty at National Review calls Obama's use of the house quote "flailing". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Second, until the last few days, McCain, I think, was passive and kind of flailing around. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For example, if my father were to join Facebook, he would become a member of the "City of Seattle" work network, as well as the "Seattle, WA" network, but the redundancy would be lost on him after the five or six hours of grueling physical and emotional labor, such as flailing the mouse around, roaring at the computer, or giving it the silent treatment, that it took him to set the account up. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lest anyone think I'm somehow shilling for Hillary, I think her claiming Obama is somehow not trustworthy on choice despite a 100% choice record - and after staffers over the weekend called Obama too liberal; her hitting Obama for voting for bills that she also voted for; and her borrowing a page from the Giuliani playbook with some scare-mongering on terrorism, represent a campaign that is kind of flailing about. ❋ Unknown (2008)

COLLINS: I can't believe all of that noise in the background, that being your roof that is just kind of flailing around. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Are you -- are you a good swimmer, too, or were you just kind of flailing away there? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sears still kind of flailing away, trying to put a wrench on things, tighten things up a little bit, that kind of thing. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And he was kind of flailing around, not satisfied with any of the career choices that were facing him, and he joined the police department. ❋ Unknown (1996)

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