welter

This is the view from downstream, looking up at the house and its welter of projecting terraces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Amid a welter of rumours, the general staff was forced to deny reports that Gen Syrskyi was about to be – or even had already been – sacked.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

When, in Season 3, Storer and his writers opted to slow things down a bit, to pull each character aside and unsnarl the welter of emotions that fueled the Bear’s kitchen, some viewers were disappointed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025

Among a welter of preliminary deals was an actual contract between Seoul’s state-run Korea National Oil Corp. and Saudi Arabia’s state-run energy giant Saudi Aramco.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

I don’t care if you’re the best welter in the country.

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

Intimations of jazz, Balinese gamelan, African drumming and Japanese music floated from welters of rapid passagework.

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2010

Carole Bolsey’s paintings are welters of vivid hues from which recognizable forms — boats, a horse — emerge.

From Washington Post

And he now welters in a debtor's prison, with few save his old faithful Daddy Bob for friends.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Jormungand welters In giant rage And smites the waves.

From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Rasmus Björn Anderson

The wind is as iron that rings,   The foam heads loosen and flee;   It swells and welters and swings,   The pulse of the tide of the sea.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

With each successive year since the fall of the Empire, China has weltered ever deeper in the morass of civil war.

From Time Magazine Archive

For 48 hours the West weltered in the confusion of factlessness: the air waves and the news columns were splashed with words like "purge" and "shake-up."

From Time Magazine Archive

One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence.

From Time Magazine Archive

It weltered round with a woozy sound, and ere I could retreat, With the witless roll of a sodden soul it wantoned to my feet.

From Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

I was impeded by the water, which already reached to my thighs; but with desperate energy I plunged and weltered through it, till I had gained a point of safety.

From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart

The echo, here, is of “Citizen Kane,” where the camera cranes over a rooftop and down through a skylight, in a weltering storm.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015

Some people ride out their lives weltering in a vivid spiritual experience regarding which they scarcely ever speak.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2015

Spain was weltering last week in a revolution which experts had to certify as absolutely Grade A. Its authentic qualities of mass upheaval reduced to secondary stature both the government leaders and the revolutionary generals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wife At Nantasket Beach, Mass., a bather thought he saw his wife weltering in the surf, frantically summoned lifeguards, who plunged in, rescued a beer keg.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the rush and glow of genuine poetical inspiration seize him, he invariably rises in spirit far above the weltering and eddying dust-clouds of faction and sect into the serene atmosphere of genuine patriotism.

From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by W. Sloane Kennedy