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

Now, nerved to woe, no more I’ll know How hope deferr’d makes mortal sick; The gathering storm may whelm my form, But I will suffer “like a brick!”

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 4, 1841 by Various

She submits with a shudder—she weeps—" "That a Frank should be ready to subjugate us and whelm us with misery we can understand: he is a conqueror who abuses his power.

From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Sue, Eugène