FLOUNDER in a Sentence

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To struggle therein is hideous; at the same time that one is going through the death agony, one is floundering about.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLOUNDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flounder
 v.  move or act clumsily and in confusion
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Lying on the flat of his back like a drifting old dead flounder, here's your old Bill Barley, bless your eyes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
2  whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage; breakfasting on three or four sailor tarts, that is whaleboats full of mariners: their deformities floundering in seas of blood and blue paint.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
3  And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pushed them aside with his floundering feet.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
4  His thoughts seemed to be floundering about in his head.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  By this time Chichikov was floundering badly.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
6  Soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud pushed the guns and wagons themselves.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII
7  All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
8  A natural fillip followed, the beetle went floundering into the aisle and lit on its back, and the hurt finger went into the boy's mouth.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  A little floundering across the sand, which was heavy, brought me to the door, and I went in.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31. A GREATER LOSS
10  It is something to have touched bottom anywhere in this bog in which we are floundering.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
11  To struggle therein is hideous; at the same time that one is going through the death agony, one is floundering about.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
12  "It's natural enough you should be leaving us" he floundered on, following his thought.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
13  Well," she floundered helplessly, "money does help, you know, Rhett, and God knows Frank didn't leave any too much.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
14  "A--a-mis--but, Rhett, she--" Scarlett floundered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
15  He felt the confused titillation with which the lower organisms welcome the gratification of their needs, and all his senses floundered in a vague well-being, through which Miss Bart's personality was dimly but pleasantly perceptible.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  Bewildered by the new software, we flounder until Jan shows her how to get started.
2  What a pity that his career was left to flounder.
3  I found myself floundering as I tried to answer her questions.
4  Anna couldn't swim and was left floundering about in the deep end of the swimming-pool.
5  At that time the industry was floundering.
6  He lost the next page of his speech and floundered for a few seconds.