11.   His movements grow jerky, his arms flail.

12.   His arms flailed against them the whole way down the stairs.

13.   Later I saw him on television, toothless and grizzled and beer-gutted, eyes filmy, arms flailing as his mouth flapped and no words came out.

14.   No one who recalls a manager racing out of the Yankee dugout, arms flailing, face contorted, to challenge a call at first.

15.   The first thing visitors notice about paralysis victim Ramon Dominguez is the way he vigorously swats at a pesky fly, his two arms flailing about his head.

16.   The two second-graders ran through the halls shrieking with laughter, arms flailing like scattering birds.

17.   Then he tossed the other end of the rope to Kristen Carney, whose arms were still flailing above the water.

18.   Their arms were flailing.