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Meanings of flail around in English

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Usage of flail around in English
1
I flail around, trying to use vines and trunks to right myself.
Catching Fire
2
My arms were threatening to flail around, so I crossed them.
The distant hours
3
Why didn't you speak up, instead of letting me flail around?
To the blight: the eye of the world
4
The hand continued to flail around, hunting for him, as the door jerked down, down.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
5
I flail around, grasping for any kind of handhold.
Seven Minutes in Heaven
6
Arms flail around, above legs unco-ordinated with them; often the legs barely co-ordinate with each other.
The Irish Times
7
If someone shoots at us on stairs, we can scream and flail around a lot more.
Death masks
8
One of the rods had kicked loose from its gib and started to flail around death and destruction.
Major Vigoureux
9
The sergeant patiently watched me flail around with my flashlight for a few minutes before he pulled the plug.
Murder most frothy
10
With only one arm to flail around with, he tumbled awkwardly from the chute as the hem released him.
The Naked God
11
And Molly... she's the kind of person who fries ants with a magnifying glass just to watch them flail around.
Divergent
12
The rider lashed out with its javelin, only for one of the Calma to wrap its flail around the shaft and pull.
The call of kerberos: twilight of kerberos
13
And since I really had no interest in finding out who did, I let Anderson flail around in his dull and ignorant fog.
Dexter’s Final Cut
14
I offer to take a bunk, but they make me keep to the floor mattress since I flail around so much when I'm sleeping.
Mockingjay
15
I flail around for a moment, only working the web more tightly around me, and then I catch a glimpse of it in the moonlight.
Catching Fire
16
But after years of flailing around, Greece is providing an interesting test case.
The Irish Times
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