flail about

But after flailing about for a while, they can't figure out what to do.

You love it when I'm all over the place, flailing about.

She flailed about for some way to turn him away from this decision.

He flailed about with his arms, but there was nothing in reach.

What resulted was a lot of flailing about, but no serious result.

But sometimes, wildly flailing about can bring the wrong kind of interest.

It was one of the men down in engineering, his arms flailing about.

Yet county officials flailed about without being able to rid themselves of the problem.

He flailed about him without knowing how to find the surface.

He gasped for air, his other hand flailing about, trying to feel what was around him.

There was commotion and someone flailing about in the street.

Would he flail about himself in a frenzy of killing?

There'd been no reason to flail about and discuss any number of options into the ground.

People are flailing about like they won the lotto, whatever.

And here he stood, with his eyes shut, flailing about helplessly.

Catherine was flailing about on the bed, her eyes tightly closed.

Falling without hope of surviving, arms and legs flailing about.

I saw him flailing about as he struggled to run through the tall grass.

As they flailed about Sean's hand came into contact with something metal.

She could hear Bill Black flailing about in the living room, trying to find it.

His arms were still flailing about, and he wasn't to know I was about to put out my hand.

A huge meaty hand flailing about closed on her shoulder.

Women have proved time and again that they don't want to flail about in a dressing room, trying to figure out which end is up.

His arms and legs seemed to flail about more like long blades of grass than go as he wanted them to.

In flailing about to make sense of the inexplicable, the first step is to ask the obvious question.