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flailing

/fleyl/US // fleɪl //UK // (fleɪl) //

摇摆不定,耀武扬威,摇摆不定的,耀武扬威的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an instrument for threshing grain, consisting of a staff or handle to one end of which is attached a freely swinging stick or bar.
    • : a similar instrument used as a weapon of war.
  1. 1
    • : to beat or swing with or as if with a flail.

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Examples

  • I enjoyed whipping through enemies with a flail that increases in speed and momentum the more its swung.

  • The firing of a new executive brought in to shake up the flailing show is getting dead-movie-star tabloid coverage.

  • As he performs, he can be seen flailing around on the street in front of a setting sun.

  • But can a 22-year-old winning formula save a flailing system?

  • What do you do when your political career is flailing and the election is only weeks away?

  • A flailing genre seems revitalized, if “revitalized” means youth, though not female, or black, or openly gay talent.

  • Men rushed to get away from the reach of those flailing arms.

  • It was like an inexpert boxer flailing according to rules unknownand Greys face flamed and actually turned anxious.

  • He balled his fists and hammered air like a windmill, arms flailing, striking flesh often enough to batter Larry toward the floor.

  • But always, when a fly was hit, his ear registered the crack of the flailing bat, and his eye followed the ascending ball.

  • He drove them to the sidewalk, flailing away at those within reach.