Floundering in a sentence

But the factors driving migration in Central America haven’t changed much, Nicolás Maduro is as firmly in control as ever, and many democracies in the region are floundering.

DeSantis has yet to answer Jenner’s inquiry, but by contrast, she’s only escalated her Twitter war on the floundering Florida governor.

Due to the floundering economy, illegal mining is rife and often takes place under dangerous conditions.

Instead, the floundering Hawks proved to be the perfect opponent against whom the Jackets could get themselves back on track.

It also means that students already accepted into these programs by WVU — and already mired in debt — are left floundering.

It’d be too much trouble to undo all that – not to mention McCall Unlimited is now a floundering company that’s been caving under a mountain of debt.

One of the memorable tunes in Broadway’s greatest hit of 1946 would make a fitting theme song for Ron DeSantis’ floundering presidential campaign.

The Huskers looked a lot like the floundering teams coached by Scott Frost in their opener, committing four turnovers and a couple of devastating penalties in a 13-10 loss at Minnesota on Thursday.

While was expected to lean more on the domestic box office, the film seems to be floundering internationally, with markets from France, Korea, Germany, and others seeing a slew of "review bombings" and unexpectedly low box office performances.

Her horse was terrified and was floundering beneath her; luckily Bertha had the presence of mind to release the horse to fend for itself.

It was supposed to be a grand exit, but felt like a floundering victory lap.

State lawmakers’ first attempts at curtailing discrimination in artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role American's lives are floundering across the country.

The Bulldogs were floundering before Mullen got to Mississippi State in 2009.

This battle for resources, which often defaults to equitable rather than strategic allocations, is one of many illustrations of a floundering, hedging national-level approach to foreign policy that Americans can’t afford.

When even the most successful signing of the post-Ferguson years, arguably the best player of the last decade is floundering, it is indicative of deep-rooted problems at Old Trafford.

And at least no one had mistaken my floundering form for a cetacean and alerted the Norwegian Whaling Fleet.

But their distaste might be a telling indicator of why Trump is floundering in polls across the country.

Contrast that with Britain’s politicians, floundering around like drunkards at closing time, flip-flopping on policy and constantly being dragged into ever more stringent measures to appease the public hysteria.

In unhappy cases, exit becomes difficult because the company is floundering and is not IPO-ready.

Someone comments on a swimmer’s floundering butterfly, which doesn’t have the graceful rise and fall of the others we see but rather looks like a constant lurching and collapsing into the water.