He floundered badly.

She was floundering badly.

But she floundered badly for a moment, out of her own topheaviness, and almost tumbled in lowering herself.

Like Ms. Rivers, who is floundering badly in the ratings, "Married. . .With Children" is loud, coarse and life-of-the-party vulgar.

But behind that bizarre and embarrassing drama, Poles believe, are the desperate straits of Solidarity's current leader, the ambitious Marian Krzaklewski, whose own candidacy for the presidency is floundering badly.

The Hying object began to take shape as it emerged from the haze, slowly becoming recognizable for what it was, floundering badly, but staying aloft.

Drizzt pointed to the goblin in the pool, floundering badly now, barely able to keep its mouth out of the water.

The husband floundered badly.

"There has to be a Guild Master, " she began, floundering badly as the discomfort swelled and brushed against concepts and memories that she didn't want to recognize.

Until the middle of last year, the company was floundering badly.