foundering
IPA: fˈaʊndɝɪŋ
noun
- The act by which a vessel founders.
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Examples of "foundering" in Sentences
- "foundering" and that Europe's days as a world power are over.
- The Capitals' foundering power play is nothing new this season.
- So my mind sinks in this immensity: and foundering is sweet in such a sea.
- Neglect of this precaution may cause "foundering," which has ruined many a fine horse.
- Consider that Yahoo is foundering and has pretty much destroyed all the properties it has acquired in the past.
- So after eight straight losses when you read some of the press about what's going on with the Hillary Clinton campaign, the word foundering is seen a lot.
- And then you hear the chap is no longer with us, as if the foreground were a busy harbor and out at sea a ship was foundering, comically unattended as it sunk and perished forever.
- So too it is to listen to the thunder of one of them "foundering"; for their equilibrium is very unstable, and the action of the sea, as they travel southwards to their death in the Gulf Stream, cuts them away at the surface of the water.
- So Bush's tenure of 8 years wasn't in denial about a foundering economy, spending billions on a failed war in Iraq and a continuation of a status quo that included offshoring of our manufacturing, skyrocketing healthcare costs and decline of US standing worldwide?
- For many, the incident—how the ship veered off course, the internationally broadcast images of its foundering, the struggle over who would take initiative to save those aboard—has become emblematic of a country struggling to right itself after a decade in the economic doldrums.
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