It is enough to make angels weep to see how the logicians, skilled in the schools, are left floundering on every field before the simple intuitions of American womanhood.
She distinctly heard some one floundering over a high board fence that shut in the rear yard of the store and post-office.
She is likely to saw the rope in two at the rate she is floundering about.
They could hear the canvas ripping; and the noise of the floundering hordes just outside was still going on.
The next minute the horses were floundering through it, tugging with might and main.
James Curtis, "have you been floundering around all this time in these woods so close to the house?
C" Company, as darkness fell, found themselves floundering in a swamp, and could make no headway.
It was impossible to be very enthusiastic at the prospect of floundering once again through mud and water in the dismal country of Northern France, with which we were already only too familiar and had no wish to renew our acquaintance.
This was only half finished, though you could with much floundering get through it to Gloucester Avenue; in reality, however, it was quite useless.
I talk to a man I don't have any difficulty in making myself understood, but here I am, floundering round with you like a school-boy!
Presently a horseman appeared, his mountfloundering through the snow.
The smith, finding that his assistant was on the point of being spirited away in the huge flying machine, came floundering towards them.
In the chaotic splashing and floundering that ensued, Helston's rifle spoke.
There was just barely room to pass, but only then by flounderingup the most rugged part of the dry watercourse.
But only a renewed and fiend-like scream came in reply, and horses, floundering fetlock deep, were making surprising headway, and the wild savage faces were alarmingly nearer.
Up jumped Maula in a moment as soon as these words were uttered, charging with his stick, then floundering and n'yanzigging as if he had been signally rewarded.
I turned in the black ditch, loathing the storm; A rocket fizzed and burned with blanching flare, And lit the face of what had been a form Floundering in mirk.
Shrouded is every chink of cabined light: And sluiced by flounderingwaves that hiss and boom And crash like guns, the troop-ship shudders .
A woman came floundering along the trail at the edge of the cornfield.
The entire Overland party were now floundering about in the bushes, and Washington Washington was up a tree, clinging to it, wide-eyed, as he listened to the uproar below him.
The action of the ponies was followed by a floundering and crashing out there in the bushes as if a large animal were tearing its way through them.
Emma Dean stuck out a foot and succeeded better than she had hoped, for Washington tripped and plunged floundering into the campfire.
Hippy's floundering finally ceased and the mountaineer could not find him.
The marks of people's feet floundering in slush, but now baked, show that the country can be sloppy.
I found myself floundering outside my hut and unable to get in; I tried to lift myself from my back by laying hold of two posts at the entrance, but when I got nearly upright I let them go, and fell back heavily on my head on a box.
Floundering there he could not make much headway, and at last in desperation the animal started to turn upon his pursuers.
If the animal was tired after floundering so long through the deep drifts they would likely soon be able to come up with him, when a single shot might do the business.
While arguing the matter he is unhorsed, and finds himself floundering in the water.
He told me that they had seen Sir John pass, floundering madly northward and dragging three brass cannon; but explained naively that four Oneidas considered it unsafe to give battle to two hundred white men.
So we let go the Pup, and she turned and legged it, yelling her scorn and fury as she ran; and we saw her go floundering and splashing across the river, doubtless to carry news of us to McDonald.
Now a quick rush, as if over thin ice or a treacherous quagmire; anon, a trip-up and tumble, with a spell of floundering before feet can be recovered.
A great floundering racket was going on above, mingled with growls and shrieks, but there was no howling.
But Florimel's insight had reached its limit, and her judgment, vainly endeavouring to penetrate farther, fell floundering in the mud.
Here and there he could discern the ghostly outline of a towering trunk a little more solid than the night it rose against, and he could hear the men and beasts floundering and splashing in front of him.
Then he felt unpleasantly lonely as he stood more than waist-deep in the noisy flood, but after a few yards floundering he found the mule again, and at last scrambled up, breathless and gasping, beneath the pines on the farther side.
Then he went out into the deepening shadows, and floundering waist-deep through the ford, plodded up the climbing trail with his face towards the snow.
A Boston newspaper reporter went and took a look at the Slave Ship floundering about in that fierce conflagration of reds and yellows, and said it reminded him of a tortoise-shell cat having a fit in a platter of tomatoes.
We saw men and women standing away up there looking frightened, and there was a bulky object tumbling and flounderingdown the steep slope toward us.
After two or three more steps, the bottom fell away and, floundering savagely, he sank to his shoulders.
Floundering through the snow, he reached the end of the pile, but found nobody there.
Soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud pushed the guns and wagons themselves.
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.
All their rushing and galloping at one another did little harm, the harm of disablement and death was caused by the balls and bullets that flew over the fields on which these men were floundering about.
Picture that little group of men floundering down into this mountain stream, swollen by the heavy rain, in the utter darkness of that night!
Four days were spent in floundering over the last sixty miles of this journey, the party being driven into "Mires and Swamps" to avoid crossing the swollen Riviere aux Boeufs.
We were in two floundering heaps, as we dragged at the main-boom aft, and the headsheets on the forecastle, while she came trembling up in the long bight of the sea, and took the gale steadily before her other beam.
How long it took me to get back to Anita, floundering with Molo's body, I do not know.
Anita and Venza were flounderingto their feet in horror.
Snap was already there, floundering on the water, awkwardly maintaining his balance, bending over Venza.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "floundering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
