Example Sentences

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Prudie, I am floundering around without a compass here, and I need some perspective on this situation from you.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2019

Worn out and weary of any life that I could conceive of here—don't you see how I am floundering about?

From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival

I am floundering hopelessly—but at home I shall be able to clear my mind of its mists and see this whole thing as it really is.'

From The Parts Men Play by Baxter, Arthur Beverley

Instead of which, here I am floundering in holes, stumbling everywhere, and suppose I lost my way altogether and then broke my neck!

From The Man-Wolf and Other Tales by Erckmann-Chatrian

The moment I begin to think about that sort of thing I feel that I am floundering.

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred