| Most people in the room flailed their arms wildly around in the air and one selected girl was taken away. |
| Thrashing wildly, she flailed her arms and legs in a desperate attempt to move upwards, to the surface, to salvation. |
| As they hurried to do as he ordered, he flailed his strap against each of their backs in turn. |
| She flailed her arms trying to grab hold of something, but her hands were wet and clammy and slid off of everything she touched. |
| His sinewy arms flailed around uselessly, his legs kicked furiously, but the ocean's grip on him only got stronger as it pulled him further down. |
| They were standard gun-tanks fitted with rotating drums driven off their engines, from which weighted chains flailed paths through minefields. |
