WordNet
Usage examples of "thrash about".
It is well past midnight now, and Daisy and Mark thrash about in shallow sleep, occasionally reaching for me and for each other as we dream together.
The fuel did not explode outright but as the fire licked over the monsters' hideous limbs, they began to thrash about furiously and it seemed that the shop would be pushed into the sea.
Leaving Ruha to splash in the copper tank and Fzoul and Thir to thrash about on the floor, I extinguished all the torches in the room, save one that I kept to light my own way, and turned toward the passage by which the witch's guard had left the temple.
As the bull crocodile writhed and hissed in his hideous death throes, a second reptile began to thrash about in gargantuan convulsions, and then another and another, until the pool was turned to white foam, and their terrible stricken cries and roars echoed along the bluffs of the river, startling the eagles and vultures from their nesting platforms high on the cliffs.
He began to dance and thrash about with his arms and swept a can of Leipzig stew off the shelf.
Its climax over, it belatedly seemed to realize that it couldn't breathe and started to thrash about.
Disappointed, his reluctant followers ceased making the branches thrash about.