flail

While investment and consumption flail, China’s dollar-denominated exports power on, surging almost 20% year-over-year last month on demand for artificial intelligence and clean-energy products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

They scampered around the office looming above the Outdoor stage, while delighted fans on the ground watched them flail behind glass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

With the USA bats continuing to flail against Rodriguez, the Venezuelans doubled their lead in the top of the fifth inning.

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

"When other fish get caught in those nets they sort of flail and it sends out a vibration underwater, sort of like ringing the dinner bell," says Prof Pepin-Neff.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

"Is that your wolf, boy?" a skinny youth called, unlimbering a stone flail.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

When he flails the way he did in the playoffs last year, it’s bound to raise suspicions that he’s distracted or not entirely invested in the sport in which he makes his living.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

Cure turns toward Aldridge and flails his arms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

Blusteringly self-important, he flails through life, naïve and directionless and pontificating nonetheless.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

At times it’s hard to recognize the ascending superstar as he flails at pitches out of the strike zone and, despite his seemingly unflappable persona, shows unmistakable signs of pressing.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2023

The horse flails, and the knight is up to his cobalt-cloaked chest in water.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

As time passed and no government help appeared, del Giudice became exasperated and flailed at the rubble.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

They attacked the game, while Rangers flailed wildly.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

But throughout the 2025 Emmys telecast, the nice guy comic flailed in the deep end of a flop sweat pool.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2025

His fastball was more than a tick down from his season average as he flailed with his command early.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2025

Then a noise reached him through the unformed nothingness that surrounded him: the small soft thumpings of something that flapped, flailed, and struggled.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

"She came out with her two little arms flailing," family friend Rolando told AFP, asking to be identified by only his first name.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Or maybe Becerra was, indeed, a feckless, flailing and thoroughly awful Cabinet member, deserving of scorn and shame.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

Messi toyed with United like a kid on the Playstation - twisting, turning, nutmegging defenders whose flailing white shirts might as well have been a call for surrender.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Hannah Einbinder of “Hacks” stars as Kris, an indie-film director tasked to reboot a flailing horror franchise in the vein of “Friday the 13th.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

He went completely under, came up, went under again, and came up flailing and floundering with such wildness that for a few sincerely mortifying moments I thought he was drowning.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson