floundering

His November 2007 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner speech in Iowa jump-started a floundering campaign.

There between the third and fourth version of “Sheep in Fog” is the shift that sets Plath floundering and signals her desperation.

In this case, Santorum received a major assist from Ron Paul, who left Romney floundering in an embarrassingly weak third.

In 2011, with the economy floundering and even bad jobs in short supply, advice like this might ring a bit idealistic.

When she graduated from Mount Holyoke College, leaving behind an undistinguished record, she was floundering.

So had he stopped there it would have been wonderfully well; but he had to go floundering innocently on.

He loosed the blankets from his shoulders, and floundering down the slope was lost in the vapor.

Dawn found him at last, floundering hopelessly in snow-screened woods, going on toward he knew not where.

After two or three more steps, the bottom fell away and, floundering savagely, he sank to his shoulders.

My fears of burglars or stray cattle were dispelled by the voices of lost and floundering men calling to each other.