Example Sentences

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All he could do was imitate them, flounderingly, unsuccessfully.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last she managed to climb flounderingly back into her seat, and, bending her stiffened arms to Jim’s neck, she moaned and cried to him.

From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)

Robinson apologetically hums and hahs, flounders through the bad bit of road as he can; flounderingly indicates that he has more to offer.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Carlyle, Thomas

The boy’s explanation was even more flounderingly abrupt than his former question had been, but his eyes never wavered from the newspaper man’s face.

From Once to Every Man by Fischer, Anton Otto

"I doubt if I shall ever feel otherwise—about her," he went on somewhat flounderingly.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul