Example Sentences

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Without a plan to cut debt payments, their economies will flounder, sapping global growth.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

Without it, both you and your dream will flounder.

From Forbes • Jan. 2, 2015

Professors also say they are strict because science and engineering courses build on one another, and a student who fails to absorb the key lessons in one class will flounder in the next.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2011

But if you put a general question he will flounder resentfully; and if you generalise yourself you will see him dismissing you as a windbag.

From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

We will flounder along with Tug and Jim, who are bowing their faces to the storm, and toiling up the dark and treacherous hillside.

From The Ice Queen by Ingersoll, Ernest