welter
verb (used without object)
to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
welters
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present tense formof welter (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
In the underworld from which Gideon had sprung—the underworld where welters the overwhelming mass of the human race—there are three main types.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
So the South-West smoulders and welters again in an 'Amnesty,' or Non-remembrance, which alas cannot but remember, no Lethe flowing above ground!
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
