whelm

Example Sentences

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You almost wish that the book would occasionally simply whelm you, but of course that’s all that most books do, even good books.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2020

In it his flair for the spectacular, the mod and the grotesque is overwhelming, in ways that admittedly may whelm some more than others.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now we wait simply for Engagement, & hear continual Word that Gen. Gage shall march from out the Town and try to whelm us all.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Filled with the conscious essence that shall grow, Through many-changed existence, up to Man, The sighing airs of scented Ceylon blow, And desert whirlwinds whelm the caravan.

From Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various

The cities whelm us in spite of ourselves.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)