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
Deep, deep, each autumn flower they hide; Each tuft of green they whelm from sight; And they who journeyed by my side, 342Are lost in the surrounding night.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard
O injur'd Nature, whelm me in the deep, And let not Europe hope for my return, Or guess at worlds upon whose threshold now So black a deed has just been perpetrated!—
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau
