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

It never made any connection with the Spurs players, while a welter of tactical shifts hinted that he was struggling to work out how to get the best out of the shambles he had inherited.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 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

He has his field light and is swinging its beam repeatedly over a welter of compacted wreckage in the far corner-stones and cement and splintered wood.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

We see the—   "Flame that welters up and of worms the fierce aspect,   With the bitter-biting jaws—school of burning creatures."

From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

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 Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

They had clambered up those mighty trees, weltered in the sand of the drove and coursed like foals in the meadow.

From The Path of Life by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Either class of failure was hailed by groans and laughter, which the appearance of the half-drowned and dripping cavaliers, as they weltered out on the bank, rendered almost continuous.

From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans

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

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

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

The evil was due to a badly-regulated, weltering, bimetallic system; the remedy was a monometallic system.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw