We struck the floor, surged up like balloons to the ceiling, struck it with a flailing arm or a leg and floated back.
Even as he spoke his fists were flailing back and forth between each one of his staccato commands.
He rolled to the side, flailing an arm to try and recover his balance, but the room was in rotation, his vision playing tricks.
Hardly fallen--floated down to the ground, with flailing arms and legs, landing in the dark ferns unharmed.
We struck the floor, surged up like balloons to the ceiling, struck it with a flailing arm or leg and floated back.
McGuire felt his companion's hold loosen as he was lifted from the ground; there were other arms flailing about him--living, coiling things that seemed to fight one with another for this prize.
His flailing arms were everywhere and a huge fist caught Karl on the side of his head and sent him reeling.
The fist went back and came again and again, as if that piston, gathering speed, had broken loose and was flailing through the screaming air.
On he walked, his voice now stilled, his breath sucking and whistling through his teeth, his hands flailing and pinching and spurting red with every contact.
MacLachlan came staving up the cobbles in a great hurry, flailing the air, as he went, with a short rattan, for he affected some of the foppish customs the old officers brought back from the Continent.
Gordon stung Arlok's shoulder with the flame, then desperately leaped to one side just in time to dodge a flailing blow that would have made pulp of his body had it landed.
Dodging the blindly flailing arms of the Xoranian, he stabbed again and again at that oval-shaped skull.
She screamed and her flailing hand hit the tiny distended head.
Sinking beside us were the flailing bodies of Molo, Snap and Venza were drifting down.
From the ceiling, with flailing arms and legs, I sank back to the grid-floor; and in a moment I was able to stand upright with so slight a feeling of weight that I could have been a bit of thistle ready to blow away in the least wind.
We seated ourselves inside the semi-circular capsule and the fun began, flailing us clockwise, then counter-clockwise, as the capsule raged up and down on its track.
Outraged, Norm flew at the can with a metal punch, flailing and prying with a vengeance until a jagged opening would accommodate a spoon.
The two of them, morsels down the gullet of skies, seemingly torn by winds active as enzymes, pummeled the air futilely with desperate, flailing limbs in an attempt to swim through the air from whence they came but could never return.
Koa fell to the deck, arms flailingfor balance--but flailing against his protective clothing.
When the flailing arms ceased flailing and the panting executioners stood quiet, the Emperor stretched out his right hand for silence; the rumbling snarls and growls of the mob abated till silence reigned.
Charles heard a sharp crunch and a snap, and theflailing sweaty figure, beneath him lay still.
Where had been pillar and flailing arms was now a tripod thirty feet high, its legs alternate globe and cube and upon its apex a wide and spinning ring of sparkling spheres.
The machine lurched forward, swooped, spiraled, and with a sickening rush, a flailingtumult of the stays and planes, plunged into nothingness!
A slight sound, there behind him in the room, set his heart flailing madly.
And, following it, they heard again that muffled drumming, as though gigantic fists were flailing a tremendous tambour in the darkness.
Shouts and cheers of triumph burst from the little band of defenders on the terrace as the sweeping wind, flailing the flame through the sun-dried underbrush, whirled it crackling aloft in a quick-leaping storm of fire.
As Dan had surmised, it was from the south-east, and laboring and flailing as sorely as she might, the winds and the waves had steadily lashed the vessel toward safety.
He could see the hundreds of planks flailing out in the air like arms; he could see the thick water spurting through thousands of cracks and crevices; could hear the gnashing of plank on plank.
He struck a flailing blow, and his hand and the weapon struck a metal brace.
And thousands and thousands of stones like that, millions of them, were descending on my wheat, were thrashing down my half-ripened oats, were flailing the world and beating the life and beauty out of my crops.
The little Hun will also fall on his picture-books, at times, and do his best to tear the linen pages apart, flailing them about in the air with genuine Berserker madness.
He marched to and fro beyond the rail, his heavy shoes flailing down on the hardwood floor.
One of his flailing fists caught Gard across the face, flattening his nose and filling one eye with stars; the other hand, trying to grip his opponent, ripped open his coat, tearing away both button and cloth.
The first went down beneath the Cimmerian's flailing sword, but the others did not falter.
In an instant the guards would be on his back--in desperation he redoubled his strokes, flailing like a smith on an anvil, and then was suddenly aware of a diversion.
Flailing swords cut empty air or glanced from his blade, and when he struck it was with the fury and certainty of a hurricane.
But briefly in his mind he saw the black uniformed giant from Wortan, felt again the flailing Kard raised high overhead, saw accusation in the woman of Nugat's eyes.
Arms and legs still flailing wildly, Kard struck the mat, seemed almost to bounce, landed in a heap atop Jorak.
He got shakily to his feet, to see Brand standing over him and flailing out with his fists at an ever tightening circle of towering figures.
With wide distended jaws Sadu lowered his head past the futilely flailing arms.
As though by signal, the prisoners threw themselves upon the handful of guards, and the room became a seething inferno of flailing arms and threshing legs, the four walls echoing muffled shouts, screams, curses.
One flailing paw struck his chest a glancing blow, the claws raking long scratches there, and Tharn was catapulted heels over head a full fifteen feet across the arena.
Flailing arms and flying hair represented the eddying foam, while quick, jerking forward movements of the shoulders gave the suggestion of impulse to a body that never moved from the heart of the floating cloud of luminous mist.
A piece of steel cable, used as a "hurricane guy" to hold down a corner of the Consulate in just such an emergency as the present, had parted under the strain and was swiftly flailing the galvanized iron roof of the veranda to pieces.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flailing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
