flounder

When we got to the river, the enemy were still floundering through the mud.

I wasn't expecting the interviewer to ask about my private life and was left floundering for a while.

The army, now one of the most solid state institutions after years of floundering, presents the biggest threat to al-Qaeda.

Black oil is washing ashore, at least one person drowned in the viscous oil slick, and efforts to clean up the mess are floundering.

If your team is floundering near the bottom of the pack, it may be time to make some moves and shake things up.

Twenty-two year old David is floundering - stuck in that lazy period between college and "what am I going to do with the rest of my life? "

I wanted to make a good impression on her, but I felt I was floundering a half an hour into the date.

Your partner may be a floundering dancer, but my partner is so ungainly. She makes an elephant look like a ballerina.

I seem to be floundering in a sea of metaphor.

One of South Africa's leading HIV research initiatives is floundering due to a lack of funding.

images from Fukushima, and the sense of floundering haplessness, will not be forgotten even if final figures reveal little damage to health.

After eight years of rapid and increasing prosperity, Putin's Russia is floundering amid the global economic crisis.

Straightforward bankruptcy is usually the most efficient way to allow floundering firms to restructure or fail.

But a toxic combination of external debt and collapsing confidence left the economy floundering.

With the Japanese and euro zone economies floundering, the dollar becomes just about the only short-term alternative, analysts said.

But, in 1997, a floundering Apple acquired Mr Job's second company, Next, and within the year he was back in control.

I mean, they're basically floundering around -- the crew of the previous administration more than the current one.

He was like a vessel, powerful and dangerous, but rolling and floundering without sail.

And the army, despite much suffering, won the biggest victories of a floundering eight-year campaign on its north-west frontier.

However, the ASEAN agenda this year will focus not so much on proud New Asia, but probably more on floundering Old Europe.

With its tourism floundering and problems such as high youth unemployment and poverty festering, Tunisia is in a fragile state.

Europe, used to privileged access to African markets and politics, has been left floundering by the new competition.

Yes they are visibly missing and those who rely on their mandate are floundering just as your markets are currently.

Regardless of the floundering economy, the shopping list of its powerful military grows and grows.

Two whales floundering between the Sacramento River and San Francisco Bay have moved several miles closer to the Pacific Ocean.

Those payments were being made as the floundering company received billions of dollars in government aid to avoid bankruptcy.

Skinner returned to the U. S. business in 2002 to a McDonald's that was floundering.

But with mid-term elections in November, the Republicans have every reason not to throw the floundering Democrats a lifeline.

Since a disputed election at the end of 2007, it has been floundering under a shaky coalition government (see article).

Anna couldn't swim and was left floundering about in the deep end of the swimming-pool.

But what if the war is still floundering?

The IPOs come as markets across the region have been floundering.

The bizarre metamorphosis that occurs in halibut and other flatfish had even Charles Darwin floundering for an explanation.

The little dog was floundering around in the snow, so I picked it up.

Better yet, for the opposition, the leaders of the ruling Congress Party are floundering in response.

Like Plato, he saw the public as a great beast or a bewildered herd, floundering in the 'chaos of local opinions'.

Mr Bush is floundering in Iraq and has a duty to explore every new idea with an open mind.

Al-Maliki's effort to portray himself as a new strongman was floundering even before the recent spate of bombings.

The child was floundering about in the water.

There are several stray dogs and Ms Lee is even nursing a pigeon back to health after she found it floundering behind the clinic.

The horses were still floundering through the mud an hour later.

The absence of support, guidance, and encouragement can lead to "floundering, " the inability to develop and pursue a specific career focus.

The horses were still floundering through the mud an hour late.

the gentlemen and the driver, encumbered by their long coats, were floundering helplessly in the water.

'I asked myself, 'Why am I floundering so much? ' ' she says, recalling her search for direction.

This could be big news for the ever-floundering news industry.

the beetle went floundering into the aisle and lit on its back.

Techies may go nuts over its flexibility, but normal people are in for some floundering.

When attractive women will still bed you, life for young men, even those who are floundering, just isn't so bad.

neither of which felt quite right. So he deferred law school and joined a new, floundering outfit, Teach for America.

However, by the 1960s, economic policies were floundering.

Governor Brewer was floundering until she signed 1070, whereupon her ratings soared.

They are floundering as on the deck of a sinking ship.

Men and horses were floundering in the deep snow beside the road.

Indonesia's proposal to have a nuclear plant up and running by 2016 is floundering, according to the Jakarta Globe.

Men were floundering in the deep snow beside the road.

In other areas, however, the firm is floundering.

The Doha round of global trade talks is floundering.

Patrick Miller, an English literary agent floundering in New York, needs a big break.

However, with BA apparently floundering, perhaps this is the very time to grab market share.

Microsoft is hoping that by stealing a march on its competitors, it can make up ground on Sony and leave Nintendo floundering in its wake.