What is "flailing"

Usage examples of "flailing".

Thinking furiously, Knucklebones tried to time the erratic flailing of the lurker, but found no pattern.

She stared through the gloom at Vika, who started flailing and clawing at herself, then dancing about like a person gone mad.

Delum began chasing the floundering Rathyd warrior about, chopping pieces from his flailing limbs.

The flint creature became a center of snapping, flailing tentacles that spattered into slimy fragments or else wrapped around their creator like seaweed around a shipwreck.

Men and women and children of the clan could plunge amidst a hurtling maelstrom of spooked animals to whip a snug noose around a neck while dodging flailing hooves, then somehow jerk the recalcitrant beast out of the herd and pacify it within a few minutes.

The imprudent driver, one of the Harpers, was flailing hysterically at the animals and trying to force them to move the wagon.

For a moment his flailing turned him sideways to the prevailing westerly wind, and he winced at the sudden roar and pressure in his left ear.

Arms and legs flailing pitifully, he hit the water fully fifteen feet from the wharf, where he splashed and bobbed, crying out for help.

A third man rammed him full speed, and over they all went, falling down in a jumble of flailing arms and kicking legs.

Groaning, it tried to straighten, flailing its arms, and Morik flew aside, his breath blasted away.

By the time they arrived in Washington, Parker had become hysterical, flailing at hallucinations of spiders that tried to smother him.

Weeping, he kicked, but he touched only air, flailing as the hands spun and lifted him.

He stumbled in a rut, flailing his arms for balance, charging forward, desperate to reach the murky trees beyond the spotlights.

On the window across the room, various error messages reported on her flailings.