How To Use Flail In A Sentence

Does a father react angrily when his tired, overwhelmed twelve-month-old flails out and hits him on the nose?
In my scenario, the Senator tells the drowning person that it was the flailing non-swimmer's fault for falling in and not learning how to swim, not the Senator's doing, just before the erratic splasher goes under the surface for the last time. Norman Cressy: Musings II
I grabbed Carmen, but she hit me in the mouth while flailing her arms wildly.
First of all, under the flail of the incessant wind, a crust would form on the surface of the snow of the type we knew as "piecrust," when out sledging. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
His weapon of choice is a deadly flail and he doesn't balk at finishing off wounded soldiers - or at sneaking up on them and strangling them.

He gave me several chances to quit - "‘Do you give yet?" - but I flailed about, trying desperately to get out of his viselike grip.
It works well, though, and since we bought a rotary slasher to replace the original flail mower it does the job of topping the paddocks and light mulching very well.
As we came closer we could make out two men in a life raft with dye marker showing and flailing their arms wildly in the air pleading to be seen.
The campaign is flat out, and so is the prime minister, a whirlwind of argument, arms flailing, fingers stabbing.
Somehow my flailing managed to get the errant slide to slam shut.
So much so that one begins to wonder if one is in fact witness to an ancient Flanderian sign language, life-threatening to those who fail to grasp its flailing inflections.
With the asymmetric, twisting, flailing impetus of Petronio's signature style dialled right up, they often appear to be battling the elements: they're hurled across the stage in whirling, lop-sided turns or jagged leaps. Stephen Petronio Company – review
The bluesy southern stomp of Beautiful Sorta, with its restless energy and reckless singing, is doused in drink and James Dean fatalism, and finds Adams flailing around for the arms of a good woman to cling to.
What hedges still remain are no longer laid but occasionally slashed by a mobile mechanical flail.
It would also catch grain bounding off the floor with the force of flail threshing.
I flailed around trying desperately to grab hold of something.
With an exclamation of surprise Ko-chin flailed her arms to stay balanced.
On climbing from the cockpit, Rosberg was surprised to discover that his right-rear tyre had begun to delaminate and it was rubber flailing against the bodywork which had resembled the sound of a V6 ruining its bearings. Chequered Conflict
He dove under and for about two seconds there was only darkness but his eyes adjusted to the dark water and then he saw Will flailing about a few feet below him.
And my uniform-case, of which he never let go, described a very beautiful parabola, and then came down upon the weigh-bridge, as the swiple of an uplifted flail comes down upon grain .... Jonah and Co.
The aponeuroses and muscles connecting the fractured ribs to the non-fractured ribs probably play a major role in transmitting the inspiratory force of the contracting parasternal intercostals to the flail portion of the chest.
Adams' opponent whipped its flail around; the weapon practically ripped the physicist's legs off at the knees.
His sinewy arms flailed around uselessly, his legs kicked furiously, but the ocean's grip on him only got stronger as it pulled him further down.
Nonetheless, they provided the missing link that connected a flailing Wild West show tradition with the Western movie industry.
The rice was then cut with the sickle and carried in on the head, then threshed with the flail, then milled and dressed, in some cases wholly by human labor, and in others by a rude machine, called a pecker mill. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
Before I had a chance to flail my body across the table at her, she made her case - and guilted those people into moving.
What hedges still remain are no longer laid but occasionally slashed by a mobile mechanical flail.
But I would not compare a tribe of children flailing weak appendages at the hard surface their soft bellies go upon, in protest for the high muckymuck partisan Brown, to the battle for Iwo Jima Think Progress » As Obama Nominees Languish, Committee Schedules Vote On Right-Wing McConnell Nominee
He jumps two feet in the air, screeching at the top of his lungs, arms flailing.
While flails can cut strong stems, a circular saw is recommended for stems over two centimetres.
Before the Pict could straighten the red sword flailed down and clove him from shoulder to mid-breastbone where the blade stuck. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
Somewhere further away, a tail tipped in membranous, half-transparent white fin violently flailed in the water, rippling all the way up to where Po had shot her arrow.
For, what great, black horse is this which, despite Carnaby's flailing whip and cruel, rowelling spur, is slowly, surely creeping up with the laboring gray? The Amateur Gentleman
But surely there's a difference between iconoclasm and the blind, flailing in the dark that might, just might, if she's lucky, cast an idol at Simpleton's feet.
If you're an intermediate skier uncomfortable in crud and crust, you'll flail no matter what gear you're on.
Pena turns and looks several lockers away where Byrnes is filling the room with laughter and flailing arms as he describes some college experiences to a reporter. USATODAY.com - Pena's refrain: I can only be me
Without delaying for another second, he shook his saber free of the flail and swung across to the halberd, causing the man to retreat for a moment.
A local peasant farmer is threshing corn nearby and, hearing the commotion, comes to the rescue, using his flail as a weapon.
I instantly panicked, clumsily splashing and flailing about as I instinctively fought to keep myself afloat.
It takes all kinds, and da dumb sheep-kine is definitely flailing around looking for their trough of free oats, headpats, comfortable daily livings for doing jack-diddley and making fun of other people as long as they're straight, white or don't want to share their sexual orientation or personal problems with the entire world . . . Preaching to the Choir When the Song Has Changed
The priest awoke with a start, flailing about in the bed until he recollected where he was and heaved himself across the mattress, in search of breakfast, no doubt.
And while your arms are uncrossed, avoid flailing.
Towdah fell to his knees, faking a little flailing motion as he fell.
As when an individual soldier lost his balance, many flailing and falling soldiers deranged the enemy formation causing a serious decrease in the enemy's own firepower.
You can be lonelier sighted than flailing about in the dark. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
His arms started flailing, and whoops! he was heading backwards again.
The anguishing power of these scenes—even stronger now than in the shell-shock of the days just following the attack—comes not only from the sight of those silent, distant figures, arms flailing, jumping from a window 101 floors high, but from the people below who watch, weeping and screaming. A Dark Day's Enduring Life
The Top Hat tried to say something, his hands flailing, his expression demanding mercy now that he was powerless. Masked
But the dreadlocks look — an intense kind of ringlet where strands fuse into a flail of single ropes — is really West Indian in origin. In Africa, where there are dreadlocks, there are white tourists being preyed upon
The alcohol-marinaded man who flails around for a hug before confidently laying down this nuanced judgment: "Next year cannot be any worse". In praise of … an alternative New Year's Eve | Editorial
I yanked the control back, slowing further, my heart beating as the hauler again compensated, the connected pods jerked against the median and flailed out into the lane. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Our patient had paroxysmal coughing as a result of bronchitis and sustained rib fractures that resulted in flail chest and rupture of the diaphragm, which required surgical intervention.
He released another arrow into the centermost human, one that was flailing his arms wildly as he shouted.
Past the flailing dramatics it will come down to a well-placed drop-step or well-timed tip-in.
Upon this granite hd a master mason was fashioning the likeness of the mummiform Pharaoh, with his arms crossed and the crook and flail gripped in his dead hands. River God
The plants will begin to die back by February or March, when they will be ‘flailed’ and the ground will be fertilised ready for next year's crop.
In his hurry he almost tripped on the stairs to the porch, but managed to keep his balance by wildly flailing out his arms.
He struggled under the weight of the heavy tomes, his twiggy arms flailing pitifully.
As he slept, he warmed, and as he got warmer, he flailed in the moleskin gown and kicked away his covers, tossed and muttered. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
When he first saw her perform he was so impressed with her arm - flailing and gyratory motions that he incorporated them into his own static stage act.
On small farms this was done with a flail or wooden mallet and block.
The pruning machines were simply reciprocating cutters or flails mounted on a tractor.
He arranged two lines of men with flails, clubs, pitchforks, sickles, and reaping hooks.
This Teddy, so the tale went, had had one paw removed and a small flail with leather tails sewn on.
Legs flailing, they trample over each other for Weetabix and milk. The Sun
He landed hard on his side stabbing at the guard, the sword entered the man's side and he dropped his flail, falling to the ground in pain.
From all this you are probably guessing that I am flailing around for excuses for a woeful underperformance this year. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, the man in the middle swung his flail sideway to his left side.
He was torn backwards, his hands flailing, and he got a grip on the doorjamb.
Thrashing wildly, she flailed her arms and legs in a desperate attempt to move upwards, to the surface, to salvation.
Her hands flailed wildly, searching for anything to help her free herself from his grip.
March 19th, 2010 at 11: 09 am spearNmagicHelmet says: dudes are just flat out flailing in flop sweat desperation. Think Progress » Rep. Paul Broun: The ramifications of health reform will be like ‘the Great War of Yankee Aggression.’
It is a stellar performance - Keith Moon's orgiastic flailing, mugging, and thrashing behind the kit leaves one utterly transfixed, and that's just a quarter of the group's dynamic.
They have therefore given some thought to music they know or might remember some of, and if they don't say, "So what d'you want to hear?" or otherwise seem to be flailing, let them play. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
This beating I did with a stick, about the size of the stick used as a flail in threshing corn. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
He does this by hurling himself to the floor, arms and legs flailing, with only the whites of his eyes showing.
The stones have had to survive vehicles mounting the verges and the modern peril of the flail cutters used to mow the grass roadsides.
As they plough through the water of a plush north London swimming pool, their arms flailing to Beyonce and Rihanna like hippos in a disco, the 15 or so middle-aged women eye the comic in the studio next door as he demonstrates the throwaway oversway that led to the Strictly Come Dancing judges awarding him an impressive 27 points out of 40 for his waltz. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
It would be a cunning weave - the warp and the weft so utterly tangled that the thugs set loose on the streets would flail themselves.
She flailed her arms trying to grab hold of something, but her hands were wet and clammy and slid off of everything she touched.
The Mule tried to hold himself upright, his torso severed and disjointed by a flabby crack in the mirror, his arms flailing out to either side and trying to latch onto the shoulders of two other stoned zombies who'd risen with him.
There is no struggle: no flailing limbs or desperate twists of torso for a last lungful of oxygen.
She ran from the house in a terrible rage, her arms flailing in the air.
Corbett lost his footing and went down, his flailing hands seeking something to grip.
They sowed seed by hand, harvested using a curved sickle, threshed grain with a hand flail, and winnowed it by throwing it into the air and letting the wind carry away the chaff.
He burst into their midst, flailing about him with the flat of his sword as if he would hack them all apart.
To the defensive or culpable Right Winger the emotion-based gesticulations of the flailing Liberal plaintiffs will never sway them and only serve to illustrate their already disdainful characterizations of the limp-wristed Left. Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird
Then his arms would start flailing wildly like a birds in erratic flight.
The keeper comes out, arms flailing, but the corner is too long and drifts into touch.
On small farms this was done with a flail or wooden mallet and block.
Soon two large, hammy hands clamped down on his flailing fists and pulled him away, gasping and sputtering, his hair hanging in his face.
He arranged two lines of men with flails, clubs, pitchforks, sickles, and reaping hooks.
James flailed about in the shallow water.
I turned and observed both of these young inebriates tumbling down the stairs, their hand luggage bouncing along beside flailing limbs and gyrating torsos. Border disorder: passages into Mexico
Sometime he kotch de rawhide, an 'sometime de flail. Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study
I would have a great time flailing round to this song, limbs akimbo, mouthing all the words.
Displays, literature and videos will also be available on Morbark's entire line of tub grinders, whole tree chippers, flail chiparvestors, screens and more.
She ran from the house in a terrible rage, her arms flailing in the air.
He darted forward, heedless of the flailing hooves and cursing rider and struck out towards her with his placard.
Mostly gone is the over-peppy cheerleader and steady spouter of talking points running a campaign recently labeled flat and flailing.
Taking a flail, the priestess scourged the body of the horse.
Vanessa shrieked, bucking and squiggling, kicking and flailing.
Many a time while rushing around at work, I've stumbled after stepping on the material and ended up flailing about on the steps.
Pin him down while he flails around and try to wipe the snot from his nose with your shirt.
Vehicular clearing methods have entailed the use of flails, plows, and lightweight rollers.
For we who are about to die, we saw a shape in war, a blind, castrated wreck with cankered mind in flail of fury, saw it lamed, The Lucifer Cantos 10/13
He flailed around, trying to gain purchase on anything he could.
He gave a choked cry, flailed his arms wildly for a moment, and then went over the edge.
She smashed the head of the lich whose legs were severed at the knees, then did the same to one whose rusty sword flailed wildly even though its pelvis lay to one side of the upper body. Lord of the Isles
Set stepped forward to meet him, his staff and flail replaced by a long, ornate spear.
Bowring reeled, choked, flailed his hands, tried to grab at reality, wherever it was.
Perhaps he imagines that the flax is first bundled and then beaten (swingled), though that would go against the flailing process which is normally done on a threshing floor.
So, while some were barring the gates, the young devil climbed up, and took down the flail that had the handstaff and booltheen both made out of red-hot iron. Celtic Fairy Tales
Then, if you manage to take his weapon, it usually means sacrificing your one flail as well.
It's a staccato language of enigmatic hand gestures, flailing arms, touching oneself, herky-jerky starts and stops, plunging into space, crashing, spinning, jumping back up.
In the west, it was mostly oaten straw that was used and it was important that the material had not been damaged and so, there was great care taken with the straw when it was threshed by the flail.
The thieves sighed but waved goodbye nonetheless as I was taken, kicking and screaming and flailing about, back to the palace.
He staggered, arms flailing wildly, and fell backward into the young pine tree.
Some mohawk girls were skipping around flailing their arms while other people pogoed up and down.
When these sharks feed in the murky surf zone where the jostling of waves and currents forces them to rely on quick grabs to feed, a flailing leg or arm of a bather frolicking in the surf can be mistaken for the animal's normal prey. Dr. Douglas Fields: Alarming Increase in Fatal Shark Attacks World-Wide: Science cuts through the hysteria for answers
Or use a flexible tree branch or heavy jacket as a flail to beat the person back.
The boundaries between the play and the audience dissolved further when a woman in the crowd began sobbing and flailing her arms.
He was kicking and punching, his arms and legs flailing like a madman. The Sun
An enterprising run from Henley won a corner, from which Hanley outjumped the flailing De Gea not once but twice to score the winner. Sir Alex Ferguson's hard line gives Blackburn's rollercoaster a push
With tomato red cheeks and heavy breath, more than 20 teens and preteens squatted, jumped and flailed their arms during a dance called Zumba at the end of their six-month reunion Saturday from a weight loss camp. Chron.com Chronicle
All I needed to read was about three posts of yours to realzie that your incoherent flailing around for a stick with which to beat Obama was not in any illuminative. Hillary: Obama Is So Friendly, He Won't Fight
He still shows up opponents with his belly-shaking, fist-flailing ‘Walker Wiggle,’ though the wiggles come less frequently now.
I would have to do this nutty, wild, exhausting sort of dance where I would flail my arms and legs out with so much gusto I would eventually lose some of the bottled up energy.
Some of the crowd even stood as the players entered, some young girls flailing around with blue colored pompoms.
Before the Pict could straighten, the red sword flailed down and clove him from shoulder to midbreastbone, where the blade stuck. Conan The Warrior
Manure can be spread as a solid or semi-solid in a box or flail spreader.
This leaves the majority flailing around trying to sort things out alone, or dumping their angst on family and friends. Times, Sunday Times
I tried to memorize the serenity that lived in her hands and arms, the calmness and sweetness that came off her like incense as she enfolded my flailing, slippery daughter. The Bird House
Josh's arms flailed wildly, catching Katie in the face at times.
During the game he twitches his head, flails his arms and hits his pads and the goal posts with his stick.
She recalled flailing in the water, desperately trying to keep afloat and barely aware of the screams and chaos around her when she heard the voice offering help.
He starting flailing around and hitting Vincent in the chest.
Her arms were flailing
Ten minutes late, he tumbles into the room in a kind of flailing pirouette, scatter gunning apologies.
I awoke, arms flailing and my head floating in a pillow drenched in my own slobber.
He dropped his knife hand from his face and flailed at the spirits around him, loosing as he did so a venomous yell. GALILEE
Releasing a fierce battle cry, I pounded flailing fist after flailing fist onto him, oblivious to his insouciance and lack of flinching.
The slug or snig as they call it can grow and grow and the zombies STICK to it, being dragged around the screen, kicking and flailing. 25th June '06
For those of you who live in thoroughly unhip neighbourhoods with no access to flailing studios, I'll produce a series of flailing DVDs.
If the paralysis is widely distributed, and the joints are flail-like, it is better to ankylose the ankle and mid-tarsal joints. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
My ice axe, tied to my wrist by its nylon sling, was flailing around wildly and every time the snow engulfed me, I choked as it went in my eyes, up my nose and into my ears.
During the game, his head twitches, his arms flail away, hitting his pads and file goalposts with his stick.
A flail is a simple device made up from two pieces of wood a handle or staff about five feet long and a swingle that is about two feet long.
The sound persisted, like something small urgently flailing about inside a confined space.
He became moody and unreasonable, flailing out at Katherine at the slightest excuse.
The pace soon slows as the road narrows to a rocky rollercoaster single track, changing often and abruptly and leaving most newcomers flailing for gears.
Their giant combine-like seed strippers use a flailing brush to remove seeds from grass heads.
The creature's head split in a gargantuan soundless scream, the pieces of her mouth flailing in the cavernous rictus. MINUTES TO BURN
The Flying Fangalis swung across the trapeze with curved blades, slashing the flailing woman across her mid-section.
Alex tried to slowly rotate her body into a warrior yoga pose, but her legs began to tremble, her arms started flailing and she landed with a splash in the pool.
Susanne was kneeling up in her chair, flailing her arms wildly at me, her glowing face evidence that the celebrating had started long before my arrival.
Whereas I, equally self-taught but a good deal less bright, flail about in the clumsiest possible way. Jean's Knitting
Bowring reeled, choked, flailed his hands, tried to grab at reality, wherever it was.
Every gulp is conscious, difficult, near-desperate, the flailing of a decked fish. Waldo Jaquith - Me and my flu at 4:30 AM.
Earlier this month the area between seven and six furlongs was flailed and the nesting skylarks took flight.
Will you please flail around like a zombie and spout gibberish in one of the worst fantasy movies ever?
Her arms flailed up and around in a desperate and truly valiant bid to keep her seat.
That outburst---and her "nanny nanny boo boo, Barb's an alcoholic" tattle-taling after the disastrous school board meeting where she is exposed as a bottom-threatener---keep Nicki from being Wife of the Week, but her furious, flailing relinquishment of power stokes the drama in scene after scene. Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 1
Flopping had become a mysterious plague, forcing players' legs to buckle and their arms to flail in the air at the slightest hint of contact.
That's an elbow, not a flailing arm. The Sun
The creatures seemed upset and began to flay the skin on their backs with flails and whips they carried in holsters around the thick trunk of their neck.
Zach flailed against the cuffs, his rage escalating at her flippant attitude.
Ragnor dropped and rolled upon the frosted grass, trampling it beneath his flailing limbs. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
It was an average performance made to look exceptional by Logan, who flailed at the first pitch as though he were chopping wood, then golfed at the second. Parents Behaving Badly
Others proposed the "anguille," another kind of recreation, in which a handkerchief is filled with sand, pebbles, and two-sous pieces, when they have them, which the wretches beat like a flail over the head and shoulders of the unhappy sufferer. The Count of Monte Cristo
I decided it was probably an injured animal, so a bit nervously I pulled back the curtains from the French windows (yeah, yeah, but I got a crap room in the previous year's ballot so I was entitled) and there, flailing against the glass, was a zombie. Utterly tedious faux laconic partisanism
This chamber's walls were decorated with racks and racks of swords, maces, flails and other dangerous weapons.
Flocks of terns and cormorants fished offshore, while fronds of kelp writhed in the surf like the flailing arms of sea monsters.
The beast screamed, its eyes reddened with pain, and flailed its leg wildly in an attempt to dislodge the feline.
The local news showed a whole montage of people flailing like windmills before descending. Times, Sunday Times
They steam implacably ahead while the rest of us flail about in a sea of moral relativism and get nothing but mental cramp for our trouble.
Howling in agony, the monster recoiled and twisted away, flailing in fury.
That's an elbow, not a flailing arm. The Sun
A lightning-fast, skilful and occasionally violent hurly-burly blur of whirring limbs and flailing, splintering timber in which all 30 players take to the field simultaneously armed with wooden clubs, hurling is not actually as dissimilar to cricket as you'd think. Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
Every baby I would swaddle would end up busting out of his bundle and crying his damn little head off, limbs flailing and clawing at the air.
Then, I spotted a super spiky little green thing that looked like a cross between a hand grenade and a medieval flail.
Some tourists frolicked in the resulting paperdrifts, flailing goofily to catch the falling sheets.
Each rider carried one of many weapons - a wicked scimitar, a powerful lance, or a flail.
Mrs Cunningham practically screamed as she threw herself at her grandson, her arms flailing as she pinned him bodily to the bed.
Manure can be spread as a solid or semi-solid in a box or flail spreader.
Many mayfly species are clumsy swimmers at best, and combine that with shucking their outer nymph skin, they become a flailing treat for the waiting trout.
Where their predecessors in the ring had both comported themselves as if points were being awarded for artistic impression, these two stand toe to toe and flail at each other with apparently random fists, knees and elbows.
Do they flail around gracefully while I'm walking, to demonstrate their limberness?
This man was far better with his weapon, a flail that was whipping dangerously close to Romon's face.
As the two No 9s flailed about on the floor, the two packs closed for a bout of ugly and prolonged fisticuffs, a scenario that was repeated throughout the match.
He yelled, his ribs burning with pain, and flailed his arms wildly.
But with Martin ailing and the rest of his teammates flailing, he was virtually a one-man show and ran out of gas in the fourth quarter, failing to make a basket. USATODAY.com
The political calculus is that Palin is hilariously unelectable, especially given the outstanding contrast between the president's seriousness and legislative accomplishments and Palin's awkwardly-cadenced screeching, her dissonant incomprehensible populist word salads and unserious, airheaded public flailings. Bob Cesca: The Perfect Storm That Could Elect Sarah Palin
Ignoring her flailing limbs, and ignoring her desperate screams, Bryan sunk his hand into the bucket, which Christie had dropped only a minute earlier.
A farmyard suggested in her mind a scene of cheerful bustle, with churns and flails and smiling dairymaids, and teams of horses drinking knee-deep in duck-crowded ponds.
He jumped to avoid the flailing leg of the defender.
Seventhly, let the young and strong Jews and Jewesses be given the flail, the axe, the hoe, the spade, the distaff, and spindle and let them earn their bread by the sweat of their noses as in enjoined upon Adam’s children … Think Progress » BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Year, Murtha Reveals
I was hopping around, stomping my feet, arms flailing about in a cross between ‘Riverdance’ and a vertical epileptic fit.
Pascall says one man tried to handcuff him while others attacked him with an axe, a spear and a flail.
Ragnor dropped and rolled upon the frosted grass, trampling it beneath his flailing limbs. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE

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