welter

In the sweep and welter of its subject matter—dogma, history, fact, law, justice, anecdote, theory, prophecy—it almost suggests the Bible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

But the 2014 YouTube video set off a welter of “fire noodle challenges” around the world, launching Buldak into viral fame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

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

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

The last lingering light welters on the ground and in the water.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray

Blind lake of Sansculottism welters stagnant through the King's Chateau, for the space of three hours.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

Outside the furious mid-stream rush of the current, dark eddies revolved in angry circles and their backwash weltered along the bank.

From The Lure of the North by Harold Bindloss

The placid clay had returned to an old allegiance, and weltered with the tide according to the joint ordering of earth and moon.

From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman

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 utter desolation of night lay about him on the lonely, weltering waters.

From St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various