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Sentence Examples If you're an intermediate skier uncomfortable in crud and crust, you'll flail no matter what gear you're on. A local peasant farmer is threshing corn nearby and, hearing the commotion, comes to the rescue, using his flail as a weapon. The laborers tell him that Ching was teaching a newly hired farmer the right way of holding the flail, but it was too much on the old man. Set stepped forward to meet him, his staff and flail replaced by a long, ornate spear. At the same time, the man in the middle swung his flail sideway to his left side. This man was far better with his weapon, a flail that was whipping dangerously close to Romon's face. Pascall says one man tried to handcuff him while others attacked him with an axe, a spear and a flail. Then, I spotted a super spiky little green thing that looked like a cross between a hand grenade and a medieval flail. Then, if you manage to take his weapon, it usually means sacrificing your one flail as well. He landed hard on his side stabbing at the guard, the sword entered the man's side and he dropped his flail, falling to the ground in pain. Will's favorite weapon is a flail, and as soon as an enemy is stunned, he can't help knocking him down again. The stones have had to survive vehicles mounting the verges and the modern peril of the flail cutters used to mow the grass roadsides. Flopping had become a mysterious plague, forcing players' legs to buckle and their arms to flail in the air at the slightest hint of contact. During the game, his head twitches, his arms flail away, hitting his pads and file goalposts with his stick. Do they flail around gracefully while I'm walking, to demonstrate their limberness? When there was no one else to spar with, he and his brother Johnny, who's now 16, would flail at each other like mad bantams. Character after character gets vacuumed up by the camera-hogging alien, all of whom shriek and flail as they disappear into its oversized maw. How are women faring in these countries as the superpower, the militias, the terrorists, and the U.N. flail? Will you please flail around like a zombie and spout gibberish in one of the worst fantasy movies ever? They steam implacably ahead while the rest of us flail about in a sea of moral relativism and get nothing but mental cramp for our trouble. Show More Sentences A flail is a simple device made up from two pieces of wood a handle or staff about five feet long and a swingle that is about two feet long. The handle of the flail was raised until the swingle was shoulder high and then brought down firmly. He swung a tremendous blow with an arm flung out like the swipple of a flail. One day the Norwegian mine clearers bring up a huge metal mechanised flail, beat the mines out of the earth and lay out a football pitch. Their little mouths flail about searching for nourishment, and their mothers are often ill-equipped to help them. On small farms this was done with a flail or wooden mallet and block. He was fiery enough to pump his fist, yet classy enough to hold it frozen in motion rather than flail about, screaming. Sadly, this ever growing populace is destined to flail about, because according to a Pew Hispanic report, Latinos feel leaderless. On the boat stands an anthropomorphized djedpillar holding a flail and scepter in its hands, wearing an atef-crown and an elaborate costume. Manure can be spread as a solid or semi-solid in a box or flail spreader. Your destiny is to flail around like a loon, go gaga over Natasha and make profound statements about old men's dogs. Batters, with a fraction of a second to decide where the ball is going, flail helplessly. Japanese batters are subtle, too. Mowing the orchard floor with flail mowers after leaf drop has been shown to speed up the breakdown of fallen leaves. Never use wire, wire rope, or flail blades, which can break off and become dangerous projectiles. The mobility of the thoracic structures makes the child more sensitive to tension pneumothorax and flail segments. I observed here and there many in the habit of servants, with a blown bladder fastened like a flail to the end of a short stick, which they carried in their hands. The revelation of Anske turning down offers from interested publishers likely provokes other aspiring novelists to facepalm as they flail under a pile of rejected query letters. Without delaying for another second, he shook his saber free of the flail and swung across to the halberd, causing the man to retreat for a moment. I flail in terror to the nearest bank, where I try to gather my wits. Taking a flail, the priestess scourged the body of the horse. Show More Sentences The younger boy has gone under the river, and the girl continues to flail in the older boy's arms. It works well, though, and since we bought a rotary slasher to replace the original flail mower it does the job of topping the paddocks and light mulching very well. He is going to have to work hard not to flail around aimlessly, following the lead of congressional Democrats. Watching them squirm is more fun than watching Romney and Paul Ryan flail away. Displays, literature and videos will also be available on Morbark's entire line of tub grinders, whole tree chippers, flail chiparvestors, screens and more. We flail but find groundlessness and chaos an improvement over tending ground for profit, for a separate, avaricious, maddeningly protected class. Right now, we flail around, treating Eurovision as an excuse for another feeble reality show. Burkina Faso flail around, trying to clear the ball, and Moses is just unable to get a shot in. Once they are dry, they are brought indoors, stored in a dry, airy place, then threshed in traditional threshers called 'bogueses', which do not break the beans, or with a flail. On the slopes of the Algarve, it would seem preferable to use a rotary flail or hoe rather than a plough for limiting regrowth of the maquis bush cover. His arms flail and appear raised at one point. Of the three circuit courts that have ruled on this issue, two agreed with the Tax Court, but one allowed a flail deduction for such fees. Ed discovered for himself that cutting or mowing the plants could produce new growth similar to burning, long before flail mowing became fashionable. That is to say that the field was first cleared of mines and UXO as well as vegetation using a mechanical mine clearer, in this case a Bozena mine flail. At first your arms flail uselessly short of the required hold, and when you do get the direction right, you may mistime the gripping mechanism, sending your climber into the abyss. He began to flail about, and his foot got stuck in a bucket. My wife, at least, enjoys watching me flail about on our elliptical. In times of tragedy, we all flail about, full of uncertainty. Rather than finally accept that Canadians do not want an election, the Liberals continue to flail about, making baseless accusations that are proving to be absolutely false. How many companies get the chance to flail around for 6 years and then get a second kick at the can? Show More Sentences Poor forgotten pop stars, affected by this recession just like the rest of us, flail around desperately for a steady Iceland ad campaign or a weekly OK! column. Manufactured with cast and hardened steel, 2 flail knives and 1 chipper blade pulverize yard debris into beautiful mulch at an 8 to 1 ratio for the 020D model. He begins to flail and exhaust himself before submerging for good. The result was a totally flail chest, with huge effort required to move very little air in and out of his lungs. Typically, a tiller system might be more cost effective when there are no mines encountered, while a flail demands less repair and downtime when detonating mine targets. When serious, depending on the fractures type and location, complications may include flail chest, compartment syndromes or fat embolism. Flanked by Canadians,he was in a flail tank crew ordered to clear land mines on Juno Beach, near Caen. Other methods used to detonate IEDs and landmines, such as armoured machines that flail the ground or sift through it like a potato harvester, are less violent. If so, then tonight proved it because none of the winners could do anything but flail around and profess amazement that anyone's even heard of them. Swollen joints limit movement, and arthritis may lead to limb deformities, ankylosis, malformed bones, flail joints, and stubby fingers. In Europe, a rope flail has been tried with some success. During technical survey, the flail may be followed by visual inspection. A flail is an agricultural tool used for threshing, the process of separating grains from their husks. In ancient Egypt the flail was a symbol associated with the emperor, symbolizing his ability to provide for the people. Barry continued to shout obscenities and to flail about in a strait jacket, finally succumbing to the effects of intravenously administered tranquilizers. The saga of Newt Gingrich's ethics suddenly resembles a brawl between blindfolded boxers who flail away so wildly that each lands a haymaker on his own jaw. Examples from Classical Literature Zircon had found a piece of two-by-four lumber about eight feet long, and he was swinging it like a flail. Theodoric of Engedi, you know, the flail of the Desert, that's a splendid one to do. The scythe, the sickle, and the flail were the same as their forbears had used for centuries. The sound of the flail and the fanning mill is heard in the farmers' barns no more. The photo contained an image of a man, two springer spaniels and a long stringer of ducks and upland birds hung on a buckboard flail of gear. His hits, I imagine, were those of the flail, which falls quite at random, but nevertheless smashes an insect now and then. The flail of the thrasher does not fall more swiftly upon the corn. The flail is a passably good flail, and will not wear out yet. Syed Zaidi, 44, ordered the pair, aged 15 and 13, to flagellate themselves with a flail of chains with blades attached, a court heard. If I was a flagellant now, I would don hairshirt and up flail. It wasn't long till the thresher shouted to him to leave go the flail. He had one cop in his left arm, using him as a flail against the others. Later still he was threshing some of this corn with a flail. I was the flail of the Lord up in those parts, I may tell you, though you won't find it in any Blue-book. Daniel galloped up silently, holding a naked dagger in his left hand and thrashing the laboring sides of his chestnut horse with his whip as if it were a flail. Hearing the hubbub of voices, and blows that sounded like the noise of a flail in the barn in wintertime, they stopped, listening and wondering what was toward. I observed, here and there, many in the habit of servants, with a blown bladder, fastened like a flail to the end of a stick, which they carried in their hands. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of flail? Words that rhyme with flail What is the past tense of flail? What is the plural of flail? What is the adverb for flail? What is the adjective for flail? What is the noun for flail? Translations for flail Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Flaherty flag-waving flagstones flagstoned flagstone flagstick flailed flailing flails flair flak flake 5-letter Words Starting With f fl fla flai