Sentence examples for flounder about from inspiring English sources

In his 1937 handbook "The Backward Child," the British child psychologist Sir Cyril Burt depicted left-handers as fumblers and bunglers who "squint" and "stammer" and "flounder about like seals out of water".

Twining plants (like pole beans) and plants with tendrils (peas and cucumbers) flounder about until they find support to pull themselves up.

Instead he'll flounder about, sometimes doing things right but more often doing them wrong.

The worst episodes flounder about for some sort of emotional foothold.

I used to flounder about whenever my inner being sensed that something was amiss in my world and sent out a message that I could not decipher.

Capello may not look much like Jim Carrey, but there was something about his relief on escaping to Italy that recalled the closing moments of The Truman Show, where the lead character eventually works out he has not been experiencing real life but floundering about in a gigantic television studio for the amusement of watching millions.

It would be good if there was more objective knowledge about this thing, so that you weren't just floundering about".

I did a lot of floundering about in my 20s.

FOR years Chile has been floundering about in search of cheap, reliable sources of fuel.

H. Reeves-Smith flounders about in the rôle of Dr. Watson.

Fleming was very much the duffer of the family, floundering about and getting into trouble.