welter

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

In the welter of ideas and insights, it can be tricky for the reader to follow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Of the many double-edged gifts bestowed upon us by the streaming service gods, the welter of celebrity documentaries is perhaps the most remarkable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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

Malcolm X plunged into a welter of activities.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

And such a thing is it that trudges and spreads itself over the climbing road that, in spite of the unbounded dome of night, one welters in the odor of a den of lions.

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

He who, death-wounded, welters there, Came hither, o'er the deep to bear Far off from her paternal nest, The white dove I have watched so long.

From Mazelli, and Other Poems by George W. Sands

A Western writer "spreads himself" at the expense of a rival who "welters" in "gush" or "slops over" too profusely.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

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

It was raining when we departed, and continued to rain all night, as we weltered through the mud.

From Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Tyrone Power

Once more he weltered in despair, With hands, through denser-matted hair, More tightly clenched than then they were.

From Rhyme? And Reason? by Lewis Carroll

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

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

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

We need not say that the ill-omened ship is broken in fragments by the wrath of the weltering fiend.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various