flailing limb
Frequency: 6.50.4 per million words
describes a limb (an arm or leg) moving in an uncontrolled, wild way
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Examples (20)
- The boxer avoided his opponent's flailing limb and countered with precision.
- Two arms reached around her flailing limbs.
- She stumbled on the ice, her flailing limbs searching for balance.
- The swimmer's flailing limbs struggled against the strong current.
- The victim was rescued from the water, his flailing limbs finally still.
- In the panic, his flailing limbs accidentally hit the rescuer.
- During the seizure, medical staff carefully monitored each flailing limb.
- She woke from the nightmare, her flailing limbs tangled in the bedsheets.
- The dancer's choreography included moments of controlled flailing limbs.
- The baby lay on its back, happily waving its flailing limbs in the air.
- Emergency responders secured the patient's flailing limbs to prevent injury.
- Witnesses described seeing flailing limbs as the boat capsized.
- The child's tantrum involved flailing limbs and loud screaming.
- With flailing limbs, he tried to maintain his balance on the slippery rocks.
- Witnesses described seeing flailing limbs through the car window after the crash.
- The desperate animal thrashed its flailing limbs to escape the trap.
- The instructor taught students how to calm a person with flailing limbs.
- He remembered a brief vision of flailing limbs before everything went black.
- His flailing limb struck the table, knocking over the glass.
- Despite his flailing limbs, the unconscious man was pulled to safety.