Example Sentences

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I loved “The Wire” and “Justified” and have been floundering ever since.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2019

Milk prices took a nosedive at the end of 2014, and have been floundering ever since.

From Washington Times • Nov. 19, 2016

AT&T's cable operations have been floundering, with industry-trailing profit margins of 16%.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is it only since '89 that people have been floundering?

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel

Had it not been for our guide's good sense and boldness we should still have been floundering through the snow, and losing our way among the bewildering peaks, ten miles south of the Samanka River.

From Tent Life in Siberia by Kennan, George