floundered

Certainly there were those who were married, but many floundered, living solitary lives.

His bid quickly floundered; memorable only for his promise to try to evangelize Chuck Schumer if elected to the Senate.

And indeed, when people tried to explain things like the banking system to me, I floundered.

Google so far has floundered in the living room, with a half-baked product called Google TV that was a total flop.

While Romney has floundered to explain his religion, Love is confident in her faith.

The Cockalorum pondered over this for a moment, and then murmuring, "I prefer croquet," floundered away through the waving grass.

At last the lascar rose and floundered through the mud toward the village, but he was careful to leave an ally to watch the boats.

Occasionally the horses floundered over smooth rocks and were nearly carried away.

Walking, half awake, Ida floundered among the boulders and through a horrible maze of whitened driftwood cast up by the stream.

He floundered aimlessly, striving by short sallies to recover the path from which the storm had taken him, but all to no purpose.