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
And when I passed your balcony Expecting only blows, From height or vantage-ground, you stooped To whelm me with a rose.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
She called upon them to lift up the sea on their invisible wings, to raise its waves as mountains, and whelm the ships upon its bosom.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
