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
Brave Gama, touch'd with gen'rous woe, believes, And from his hand the pilot's hand receives: A dreadful gift! instructed to decoy, In gulfs to whelm them, or on rocks destroy.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
Why whelm they that light under a bushel which ought to stand on a candlestick?
From The Apology of the Church of England by Lady Ann Bacon
