welter
verb (used without object)
to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
was weltering
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past progressiveof welter.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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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
As to North Italy, where our concern lies, humanity there was weltering like a sea, tossing up and down, with no direction in its waves.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke
To the north where he was running, black masses of clouds were piling, and the sea, so far as the eye could reach, was weltering more cruelly than before.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
Yet, in that calm secluded spot, and under the cold, pure light which fell so holily, what a hell was weltering and glaring!—what a spectacle was that moon to go down upon!
From The Evil Guest by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
But a brief while, and Shelley, who could not swim, was weltering on the waters of Lerici.
From Shelley; an essay by Francis Thompson
