flounderin a sentence
flounder as in: she floundered
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She is floundering in collegefloundering = having difficulty
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Floundered on the uneven footing.floundered = had difficulty
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I floundered my first week on the job.
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It was the better jest to see what extremes I would try, to see how I would curse and flounder. (source)flounder = have difficulty
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I plunge right in, boots still on, and flounder downstream. (source)flounder = move with difficulty
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Metal ripped on metal and I fell to the ground and rolled as far as I could, floundering to escape my wire prison. (source)floundering = moving awkwardly
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I floundered around until one of the clerks, a tall guy with a blond ponytail, came over. (source)floundered = had difficulty -- such as not knowing what to do
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She was floundering for an answer when Judith spoke. (source)floundering = struggling
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The place was otherwise as flat as the flounders he'd heard about on the radio. (source)flounders = a kind of fish
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Dave refused to run quietly on the trail behind the sled, where the going was easy, but continued to flounder alongside in the soft snow, where the going was most difficult, till exhausted. (source)flounder = moved awkwardly with difficulty
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They, to their post on each side speedily Descending, stretch'd their hooks toward the fiends, Who flounder'd, inly burning from their scars: And we departing left them to that broil.† (source)
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But I visualise my own efforts to keep up the conversation as the wild flounderings and scrapings of a skater who cannot skate.† (source)
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He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. (source)floundered = moved awkwardly on unsure footing
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In the darkness floundering in the cold water they had a difficult and very nasty job finding which were the right barrels. (source)floundering = having difficulty
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I want a half-pound of pork, to fry some first-rate flounders for Mr. Gubbins's breakfast; and, lady or not, Old Maid Pyncheon shall get up and serve me with it! (source)flounders = a kind of fish
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Dire was the clatter of their jaws; the sweat Pour'd forth, profuse, from ev'ry limb; then rush'd Epeius on, and full upon the cheek, Half turn'd aside, let fall a stagg'ring blow; Nor stood Euryalus; but, legs and feet Knock'd from beneath him, prone to earth he fell; And as a fish, that flounders on the sand, Thrown by rude Boreas on the weedy beach, Till cover'd o'er by the returning wave; So flounder'd he beneath that stunning blow.† (source)
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And that great shot of you holding that flounder on the boat! (source)flounder = a kind of fish
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The sand stirred around me, and a flounder darted from my feet. (source)
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He offered up his famous specialty—grilled flounder stuffed with shrimp served on pimento-cheese grits—only a few times a year. (source)
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Pompano, grouper, cobia; trout, mackerel, redfish, flounder, mullet; blue crabs and stone crabs. (source)flounder = a kind of fish
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Instead, we were limp and floppy like two wounded flounders. (source)
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We sang it to a flounder in the back lying in a low basket by itself, with its two button-eyes on the side of its head shifting around. (source)
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Old platter-foot Doxology was daintily nibbling hay from the manger with lips like two flounders. (source)
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Then hot dishes: fried whole flounder, and we always pushed the head to our dia's side of the plate. (source)
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He bought three flounders from the man for a quarter. (source)
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He stopped to talk to card-players in a social club and watched a woman buy a flounder in the market. (source)
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"He's a big flounder," George said. (source)
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Later, he grabbed a flounder and used it to flavor one of Henry's sandwiches by running the fish over the bread. (source)
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I swear I wouldn't give you kids a dead flounder for a pet. (source)
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