Get to know Floundered better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Floundered meaning
simple past and past participle of flounder
Using Floundered
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of flounder
- In the example corpus, floundered often appears in combinations such as: floundered and, has floundered, had floundered.
Context around Floundered
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Floundered
- In this selection, "floundered" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, floodlights, candidacy, biden, warren and throughout stand out and add context to how "floundered" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and he floundered throughout the and and who floundered in prague. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "floundered" sits close to words such as abbe, abdollahian and abergavenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with floundered
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Efforts to trim those fleet sales and rely more on consumers floundered. (12 words)
But it was on IQ that the paper’s case really floundered. (12 words)
Will we find out that the Government floundered but the public got it right? (14 words)
Payton has some unfinished business at his old job in broadcasting before diving into the task of turning around a franchise that has floundered under first-time head coaches Vance Joseph, Vic Fangio and Hackett during a seven-year playoff drought. (41 words)
While President Biden is looking to have a clean run at the Democratic nomination after Robert F Kennedy's candidacy floundered in recent weeks, the Republican race has entered the stage where it usually ramps up after Labor Day. (39 words)
The hedge, which he started building on March 3, cost him roughly $27 million and scored big as stock and debt markets floundered on fears of the coming pandemic — fears, critics say, that he helped stoke. (36 words)
Will we find out that the Government floundered but the public got it right? (14 words)
England player ratings against Czech Republic: Who fought hard and who floundered in Prague? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
Like many a young hopeful, his youthful dreams of glory under the floodlights floundered on the bench.
Payton has some unfinished business at his old job in broadcasting before diving into the task of turning around a franchise that has floundered under first-time head coaches Vance Joseph, Vic Fangio and Hackett during a seven-year playoff drought.
While President Biden is looking to have a clean run at the Democratic nomination after Robert F Kennedy's candidacy floundered in recent weeks, the Republican race has entered the stage where it usually ramps up after Labor Day.
She also listed his jealousy and repeated allegations of her 'admiring other men' as reasons why their relationship had floundered.
But Biden floundered, Warren lost traction when she moved to the right and Pete Buttigieg never resonated with working people.
Efforts to trim those fleet sales and rely more on consumers floundered.
It will be interesting to see what else comes next, and whether or not Luna will be able to succeed where Stadia has floundered.
The hedge, which he started building on March 3, cost him roughly $27 million and scored big as stock and debt markets floundered on fears of the coming pandemic — fears, critics say, that he helped stoke.
Vader was at one time planned for a world championship run in WWE, but those plans never came to pass and he floundered throughout the mid-card for most of the rest of his run.
Will we find out that the Government floundered but the public got it right?
England player ratings against Czech Republic: Who fought hard and who floundered in Prague?
He also floundered as he defended the party's pledge to nationalise chunks of BT and offer free broadband to everyone in the country - which experts say would cost £100billion.
He floundered the following year at DS Virgin in which he only gained one pole, before a switch to Techeetah proved transformative.
It was established by the last Labour-led government but had floundered under the SNP, Mr Leonard said.
Rather than flourish, Fulham floundered and went through three separate managers as they were immediately relegated, with the likes of Jean Michael Seri and Andre Schurrle flattering to deceive.
The spectrum sale to Jio, which would have brought nearly Rs 18,000-crore to the debt laden company, floundered after RCom's creditors demanded payment ahead of the sale.
But it was on IQ that the paper’s case really floundered.
Efforts to craft an immigration compromise have floundered, and Republicans have not moved a bill to protect Robert Mueller’s investigation.
In recent weeks mining profitability has to levels that may mean it is no longer sustainable as Bitcoin’s price has floundered.
It was removed from a museum along with 13 other statues, and Indian authorities’ efforts to trace this valuable hoard had floundered for decades.
Common combinations with floundered
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- floundered and 4×
- has floundered 3×
- had floundered 3×
- floundered after 3×
- floundered on 2×
- floundered under 2×
- floundered in 2×
- he floundered 2×
- government floundered 2×
- floundered but 2×