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

Beneath its silken vestments beat A lion heart of jungle heat; Its couchant soul delights in battle To fell the rock and to whelm the fleet.

From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)

That thus ye mock me with contemptuous words And futile arguments, and dig a pit In which to whelm the man you call a friend?

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard