Doused in burning oil, the creatures wailed and flailed, rolling on the ground and setting their kin alight with their wild thrashing.

With wild thrashings of wings and tails they swam swiftly out of sight.

The man's head disappeared again and there was a commotion in the grass; a wild thrashing and the sudden panic ridden bellow of a beast.

There was a wild thrashing, a flailing, a horrible yell that died and echoed against the walls of the enclosing towers.

Jagang lifted a finger and Christabel resumed her wild thrashing and screaming.

During the wild thrashing that followed, the gauntlet brushed against the harp and fell free.

But everyone heard the champion of Gualdar let out a wild death scream, spraying blood all over his opponent, then topple over in his last wild thrashings.

Zur stepped up to the pinned Leaper, hesitated for a moment to gauge its wild thrashing, then raised his wedge-sword.

The leg whose wild thrashings had endangered the native now recoiled toward the man.

I swam for the raft in frantic strokes, precisely the sort of wild thrashing that sharks find so deliciously inviting.