Swing around wildly

Usage examples of flail.

The swordsman ducked under Ballas flailing arms and sent a disembowelling cut across Ballas belly.

Poor Ferdy started to look sick, flailing about with all four legs, until Barong caught him and held him still.

At least one Batavian had died under the flailing feet before the rest learned that the safe place to be was behind him or far to the side.

A few beet had entered with the people, and there was pandemonium inside the parlour as people tried to kill the bees, upsetting glasses and dishes as they flailed around them with newspapers and maga.

Judging by his clumsiness, his flailing efforts, I thought that the blackheart must be impairing his motor control.

He screamed in sonar, bubbles pouring out of his blowhole and backed up, his tail flailing wildly.

He flailed for balance, snatched at the closest tablecloth and dragged a cascade of smashing china and chinking silver to the floor as he fell.

Men in padded suits armed with sacks would occupy the ambushes, and if the dogs got close without discovering an ambush, the men were to jump out and flail threateningly at them.

It was like flailing in deep water as the riptide drags you inexorably out to sea.

The barbaric Shinyar, near-naked and tattooed and earringed, flailed at the sagging defense, but their numbers and the confining cave walls prevented them surging like a tidal wave.

His body floats above the open creche, his flailing hands can get no grip.

It pulled its rear up in a great arch, vised its prolegs into the hard earth, took the weight of its forebody, and with a flail lifted it, straightening the tube of bodiness, the humanish torso high at the end of outstretched grub physiognomy that batted uncertainly at the air, then onto the spongy caterpillar forelegs.

First the Emeraldina would stand atop it, then she would be flung off by the Kesperle, who would be frightened off by the Hanswurst flailing a long sausage, who would in turn be chased off by the Emeraldina wielding a brick.

The fearless Ismaili Assassins, seeking sure reward in the afterlife, screamed the name of God and flung themselves into the midst of the enemy, blades flailing.

He wore a puffed and powdered wig, and a garish ensemble of matching justicoat, waistcoat and breeches, his ruffled cravat sprouting from beneath his overlapping chins like the desperate hand of a drowning victim, flailing for aid.