Flailing Sentence Examples

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  • His opponent was flailing again.

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  • The ball passes his flailing hands by mere centimeters.

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  • The boxing, for instance, is not just flailing around.

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  • He snatched her again by her belt, then grabbed both flailing wrists and swept her feet from beneath her, falling with her.

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  • And unlike her sister Liza, she has none of her mother's physical mannerisms (the braced legs, the flailing arms ).

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  • I do not agree with flailing the hedgerows, but summer growth is so profuse.

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  • With a map in hand, allocation is much easier to do than when you're flying by the seat of your pants and potentially flailing in too many directions.

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  • He also took on a different personality, usually one that was flailing and frightful.

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  • The panicked screaming, kicking, thrashing, and flailing is alarming in its intensity.

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  • The screaming, flailing, and kicking that accompany a night terror may frighten parents who fear the child is having a seizure.

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  • Parents can tell what babies need by the loudness and pitch of crying and the flailing of arms and legs.

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  • Pushing and shoving can be dangerous, and if users crowd each other, flailing limbs can cause bruises and black eyes.

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  • From the time a baby reaches out to grasp a flailing appendage only to realize that the wiggling, pink thing in front of his face is actually his own foot, children are learning what it is to be human.

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  • The leg wound from Shipton's flailing ice ax had been an eight-stitcher of no permanent consequence but the clump of frozen mountain Dean caught on the head kept him fuzzy and blurred his vision for a day and a half, necessitating the stay.

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  • Action Men with wildly flailing limbs, thrown helplessly about at terrifying velocity.

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  • Babies may begin flailing at objects that interest them by two weeks of age but cannot grasp them.

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  • The vampire struggled to break free, a blur of flailing limbs.

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  • I desperately race around the classroom, arms flailing in clumsy attempts to grasp at adolescent screeches and high-pitched howls of derisive laughter.

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  • Now, please, ladies - no wailing, no flailing, no suicides, no tears.

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  • Sneering at Jackson in disgust, Victor stood in front of Elisabeth and began hitting her, first with open hand and then backhand, sending her head flailing from side to side.

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  • Xander rose, snatching the flailing coffee mug with one hand while gripping her around the waist with his other.

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  • The leg wound from Shipton's flailing ice ax had been an eight-stitcher of no permanent consequence.

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