welter

This is the view from downstream, looking up at the house and its welter of projecting terraces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Being an MP, while a privilege, isn't easy, splitting your life between two places, the welter of public scrutiny and being subject to the vagaries of your party's political fortunes.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2024

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 lay in a welter of fine dust that had drifted into this dark, secret space over the years.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

He has no imagination at all—or, what is the same thing, an imagination which welters in impotence, far below the level of the emotions which it ought to overrule.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

Such lava welters redhot in the bowels of this Mountain; unknown to the world and to itself!

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

I have tried to show how from one ideal to another mankind has passed to this present sham ideal, or no-ideal, wherein it welters as in a sea of boundless sentimentalism.

From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More

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

It was in the beginning of August, and the Temple weltered in sultry days and calm nights.

From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore

They weltered in the mire of fraud and deceit, behaved like cheap sharpers.

From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

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 rearing river, backward pressed, Shook all her trembling banks amain, Then madly at the eygre's breast Flung up her weltering walls again.

From Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth