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
While Rome was weltering under Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, China was recovering herself, getting used to a calm equanimity, under Haii Kwang-wuti: the conditions in the two were as opposite as the poles.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
A table lay overturned at the top of the stairs, and a broken flower vase was weltering in its own ooze.
From When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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
