Sample Sentences for
flounder
(editor-reviewed)

flounder as in:  she floundered

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    I plunge right in, boots still on, and flounder downstream.  (source)
    flounder = move with difficulty
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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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    She was floundering for an answer when Judith spoke.  (source)
    floundering = struggling
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    He was two weeks learning to use his flippers; and all that while he floundered in and out of the water, and coughed and grunted and crawled up the beach and took catnaps on the sand, and went back again, until at last he found that he truly belonged to the water.  (source)
    floundered = moved awkwardly
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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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    Little pubescent Aryan back there is definitely a flounder pounder.†  (source)
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Even experienced men were apt to flounder badly in crises if they lacked leadership.†  (source)
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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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    He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks.  (source)
    floundered = moved awkwardly on unsure footing
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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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    Pompano, grouper, cobia; trout, mackerel, redfish, flounder, mullet; blue crabs and stone crabs.  (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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    I swear I wouldn't give you kids a dead flounder for a pet.  (source)
    flounder = a kind of fish
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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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    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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    Instead, we were limp and floppy like two wounded flounders.  (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 bought three flounders from the man for a quarter.  (source)
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    "He's a big flounder," George said.  (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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    Grinning at the memory of his editor's expression, Jeremy flipped through various stations—rock, hip-hop, country, gospel— before settling on a local talk show that was interviewing two flounder fishermen who spoke passionately about the need to decrease the weight at which the fish could be harvested.  (source)
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    And as for other fish common to the Atlantic and Mediterranean, I was unable to observe miralets, triggerfish, puffers, seahorses, jewelfish, trumpetfish, blennies, gray mullet, wrasse, smelt, flying fish, anchovies, sea bream, porgies, garfish, or any of the chief representatives of the order Pleuronecta, such as sole, flounder, plaice, dab, and brill, simply because of the dizzying speed with which the Nautilus hustled through these opulent waters.  (source)
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