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

But if there is a wise man anywhere he will make terms with me, and will set himself to guide the underlying forces that may otherwise whelm everything.

From Caves of Terror by Mundy, Talbot

Surely he will tear down the slum and whelm the robbers in their iniquity and visit upon us all punishment for the crime which all alike have shared!

From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by Miller, John Maurice