Sample sentences for the GRE study word floundering

SENTENCE:The tempest lulls, the moon comes [floundering] through the drifts.|Leaves of Grass|Walt Whitman|modern
SENTENCE:The [floundering] coursers rolling on the plain.|The Iliad of Homer|Homer|old
SENTENCE:And right in among those sharks was Queequeg who often pushed them aside with his [floundering] feet.|Moby Dick; or The Whale|Herman Melville|modern
SENTENCE:Soldiers [floundering] knee-deep in mud pushed the guns and wagons themselves.|War and Peace|Leo Tolstoy|old
SENTENCE:Big brutes of oceangoing steamers [floundering] along in the dark, lowing out like seacows.|Ulysses|James Joyce|old
SENTENCE:With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, [floundering] and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling to pieces at the larger joints.|A Tale of Two Cities|Charles Dickens|modern
SENTENCE:whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage breakfasting on three or four sailor tarts, that is whaleboats full of mariners their deformities [floundering] in seas of blood and blue paint.|Moby Dick; or The Whale|Herman Melville|modern
SENTENCE:He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the [floundering] legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before.|Metamorphosis|Franz Kafka|modern
SENTENCE:To struggle therein is hideous at the same time that one is going through the death agony, one is [floundering] about.|Les Miserables|Victor Hugo|old
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WORD:flourish

1. boom, thrive, flourish, expand -- (grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming")
2. thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish -- (make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance; "The new student is thriving")
3. brandish, flourish, wave -- (move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun")

1. flourish -- (a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish")
2. flourish -- (an ornamental embellishment in writing)
3. flourish -- (a display of ornamental speech or language)
4. flourish, brandish -- (the act of waving)
5. flourish, fanfare, tucket -- ((music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare")