welter

A welter of memoirs and biographies have traced their colorful lives as well as their relationships with one another and with their hot-tempered father, David.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

Within the government here in the UK, there is a quiet pride that Britain made its contribution to the welter of diplomacy European neighbours and others have been doing in recent days.

From BBC ● Jan. 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

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

Such welters of words are very common in Crabbe, and Johnson saved him from one of them in the very first lines of "The Village."

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

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

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

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

"Must be kinda fun—acting," Ivo told Paul the morning after the New York opening, as Paul weltered contentedly on his bed—he had the best room in the house now—amid a pile of rave notices.

From My Fair Planet by Evelyn E. Smith

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

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

We need not say that the ill-omened ship is broken in fragments by the wrath of the weltering fiend.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various