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How to use foundering in a sentence

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Parapsychology needs transpersonal psychology to keep it from foundering in technical sterility.
As Hammann made a wide circle to gain altitude and get his bearings, he sighted enemy patrol boats racing toward Ludlow's foundering Macchi.
Once again, the RNLI lifeboat was called out, when a quarter-decked fishing boat was reported in danger of foundering on the rocks.
Debut long-player Nia came out the next year, rocking in places but too often foundering in hippy-dippy indulgences.
The foundering Kraft buyout of Cadbury is the latest example of how corporate boards are costing us trillions.
Relief was clear because the tour had seemed on the point of foundering.
The foundering was initiated by the loss of the port roll-dampening paravane.
If it fails to get a grip and quickly, the Commission is at real risk of foundering in futility.
Obama's lawyers are foundering in explaining the legal rationale for his Libyan adventure.
Ballance, a Zimbabwean by birth, scored his maiden international fifty, marshalling an England innings that was in danger of foundering.
By late Autumn, the negotiations became seriously stalemated and both delegations were frustrated that the talks were foundering.
Seafarers are entitled to adequate compensation in the case of injury, loss or unemployment arising from the ship's loss or foundering.
It kept ships from foundering on the rocky point and sandbars in the waters nearby.
However, the reality is that most of our communication efforts are foundering because the EU fails on the basic issues.
Improper loading and progressive flooding continue to be the primary factors in the capsizing and foundering of fishing vessels.
The resultant reduced freeboard aft rendered the vessel highly vulnerable to the shipping of water on deck which culminated in her foundering.
The two survivors, when rescued some 16 hours after the foundering, were suffering from hypothermia.
Right at the epicenter of big time pop, music is foundering as a wealth enterprise.
The now ageing boat took a heavy battering struggling into head winds in the Red Sea, and, after coming close to foundering, limped into an Egyptian marina.
The development of action to prevent the foundering of bulk carriers due to improper loading and unloading practices is best done at Community level, since Member States in isolation cannot take adequate and effective action.
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They ought to have left before, when we had that narrow squeak from foundering.
Had it fallen out, no human power could have prevented the ship from foundering.
And isn't Hodgson foundering my mare at this moment in chase of him?
Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful, there a pint, anon, maybe, a quart or so, and returned to the shore like foundering derelicts.
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