FLOUNDER in a Sentence
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25 example sentences for FLOUNDER, such as:
1. At that time the industry was floundering.
2. By this time Chichikov was floundering badly.
3. What a pity that his career was left to flounder.
4. His thoughts seemed to be floundering about in his head.
5. I found myself floundering as I tried to answer her questions.
2. By this time Chichikov was floundering badly.
3. What a pity that his career was left to flounder.
4. His thoughts seemed to be floundering about in his head.
5. I found myself floundering as I tried to answer her questions.
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Meanings and Examples of FLOUNDER
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flounder
v. move or act clumsily and in confusion
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 Lying on the flat of his back like a drifting old dead flounder, here's your old Bill Barley, bless your eyes.
2 whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage; breakfasting on three or four sailor tarts, that is whaleboats full of mariners: their deformities floundering in seas of blood and blue paint.
3 And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pushed them aside with his floundering feet.
4 His thoughts seemed to be floundering about in his head.
5 By this time Chichikov was floundering badly.
6 Soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud pushed the guns and wagons themselves.
7 All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic.
8 A natural fillip followed, the beetle went floundering into the aisle and lit on its back, and the hurt finger went into the boy's mouth.
9 A little floundering across the sand, which was heavy, brought me to the door, and I went in.
10 It is something to have touched bottom anywhere in this bog in which we are floundering.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
Context Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
11 To struggle therein is hideous; at the same time that one is going through the death agony, one is floundering about.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
12 "It's natural enough you should be leaving us" he floundered on, following his thought.
13 Well," she floundered helplessly, "money does help, you know, Rhett, and God knows Frank didn't leave any too much.
14 "A--a-mis--but, Rhett, she--" Scarlett floundered.
15 He felt the confused titillation with which the lower organisms welcome the gratification of their needs, and all his senses floundered in a vague well-being, through which Miss Bart's personality was dimly but pleasantly perceptible.
Example Sentence:
1 Bewildered by the new software, we flounder until Jan shows her how to get started.
2 What a pity that his career was left to flounder.
3 I found myself floundering as I tried to answer her questions.
4 Anna couldn't swim and was left floundering about in the deep end of the swimming-pool.
5 At that time the industry was floundering.
6 He lost the next page of his speech and floundered for a few seconds.