Crossword-Solution: FLAILING
We have 3 clues for the answer “FLAILING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Old-fashioned threshing method | 1 answer |
| Thrashing about | 1 answer |
| Threshing or thrashing | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FLAILING (5)
The isle was all bright sand, And flailing fans and shadows of the palm; The heaven all moon and wind and the blind vault; The keenest planet slain, for Venus slept.
But what a heavenly change since yesterday! No more wielding of the ugly cudgel; no more flailing with an aching arm; no more broadsword exercise, but a discreet and gentlemanly fence.
Without a rehearsal our resolve is a mere fantasy, and our warmup is nothing more than flailing our arms about without throwing the ball.
The isle was all bright sand, And flailing fans and shadows of the palm: The heaven all moon, and wind, and the blind vault— The keenest planet slain, for Venus slept.
Out of the night and storm, mad with terror, screaming like fiends, with distended nostrils and flying manes and flailing hoofs, there plunged into the midst of the assaulting party a pair of snow-white horses--astounding, felling, trampling, scattering, filling them with confusion.
Quotes with FLAILING (3)
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
Eve still marveled on a daily basis at the speed with which her own life had changed. A year ago, she'd been lost and flailing, and now she was found. She wanted to call it a miracle, but it was simpler than that, and a lot more ordinary; she'd met a kind and decent man who loved her.
This, it occurred to me, this was the undisciplined human community that, fired by its dull collective wit, now drove the armed nation towards it knew-not-what sort of epic martial cataclysm: a massive flailing organism with all the rectitude and foresight of an untrained puppy.--In the private letters of Albert Sloane, by permission of the Sloane family.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1989–2012).