flounder

A decade ago, city leaders floated a brand new City Hall complex but the idea floundered and the city, instead, began renegotiating its leases.

Instead, Bayou, Israel's hedge-fund group, continued to flounder and the deception only grew.

China may flounder on the soccer field, but the country is in the grip of a mad World Cup fever.

And, indeed, Mart soon found that he need spend no worry over leaving wounded fish to flounder out their lives.

The alligator gave a spring, and began to flounder in the sand, while his companions deserted him, taking to the water.

They rise to Alpine heights of pure wisdom and power, leaving him to flounder ignobly in the mire of his own fatuity.

What we've done so far, you might best describe as flounder.

Where the crust held us we made good time, but most of the way we had to flounder along through soft drifts.