flounder

Barack Obama referred to China's recent space walk as a sign that it was catching up while America floundered.

So the poor old Lion floundered about and floundered about, and as he could 't get up the steep sides of the well, he was drowned dead.

Well. . . " He floundered as he examined my smile, clearly not happy with my response. " I told her I had to think about it.

Suddenly one of the helicopters floundered, its landing gear snagged on the guy wire of a transmission tower.

I floundered a bit for the next four years. I moved to Buenos Aires, where a friend found me a job as a sushi chef in a local restaurant.

It is a critical distinction, on which national policy floundered in the United States for many years.

The local economy, like that of so many other cities, has floundered.

Presently, as we blundered and floundered along, there was a sharp cry, then a storm of exclamations.

My jaw fell open. I floundered around in my head, trying to remember how to close it.

Itstunned her for a moment and she floundered outward, struggling to swim and regain her breath.

It has prospered, while advanced countries floundered. China has noticed.

Ricardo Rocha and Anthony Gardner, the stand-in centre halves, floundered, run ragged by a tireless Andrew Johnson.

Colt founded a company to manufacture his revolving-cylinder pistol; however, sales were slow and the business floundered.

Japanese technology giants, meanwhile, have floundered.

The airline business floundered as fuel prices surged, the credit crunch hit and world-wide travel plunged.

Still, advertising is scarce and such "retail schemes" , which cannibalise wholesale revenues, have floundered in the past.

Similarly, 3Com, which makes computer-networking gear, floundered as such products turned into low-cost commodities.

They host students with radically different learning styles, many of whom have floundered in traditional classrooms.

Maybe everyone feels this way during major life changes, but I floundered.

Efforts to reform public universities have floundered.

the frightened girl floundered through her song . .

The government, previously adept at public relations, has floundered in its response.

Efforts to protect the species have floundered.

I also have all those great friends in the world of women without whom I would have floundered.

Yet today, after art prices plunged by some 60 percent in the past year, the expansion plans have floundered.

He floundered through that song at last.

National legislation was proposed last year to outlaw possession of child porn as well as the virtual variety, but it floundered.

As a result, I floundered around aimlessly for a long time.

And while other blue-chip firms such as Sears, IBM and General Motors, floundered in the 1980s.

the next afternoon , i floundered about unhappily

floundered up the muddy mountain trail;

obviously unprepared from the way he floundered through therecitation

Set me on fire and watched as I floundered