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  1. flailingnoun

    A flailing action or motion.

    The drowning man's flailings soon attracted the lifeguard's attention.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Flailing in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Flailing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Flailing in a Sentence

  1. Samantha Cotten:

    Josh Mandel is unhinged, unfit and flailing because he's losing, he is only a professional at one thing: running for office. He is hell-bent on lying because he is failing. He doesn't have the temperament, experience or fortitude to be a U.S. Senator, and Ohio voters got a firsthand look at just how unprepared Josh Mandel has become, and that will be reflected on the ballot on May 3.

  2. Colleen Scarlett-Stice:

    What you did today truly hurt someone, and you should be ashamed. you didn’t see that he doesn’t understand that flailing, kicking, and trying to hurl himself backward makes it incredibly difficult, painful, and exhausting to carry him.

  3. Rami Khouri:

    The Saudis have many fine qualities but statecraft and diplomacy is not one of their skills, they are really worried, frenzied and flailing around and it's very dangerous. Right now they are acting in a dangerous and reckless way.

  4. Chris Pine:

    Jay Singletary, for all of his complete inadequacies as a human being and his flailing about, is really... Jay Singletary's just funny, jay Singletary's just kind of ridiculous and tragic. So a lot of the times, [ work involved ] just making Patty laugh and that's kind of what I like to do.

  5. Mike Pompeo:

    We can now see the fix was in for President Obama and Secretary Clinton to make sure that Bernie Sanders would never be elected. That's embarrassing to many Democrats, so they're flailing about trying to find separate storyline to deflect from the true substance of what was in those emails.

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