welters
- present tense form of welter (3rd person singular).
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
Behoves us, not to enter exploratively its dim embroiled deeps; yet to stand with unwavering eyes, looking how it welters; what notable phases and occurrences it will successively throw up.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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 More, Paul Elmer
A Western writer "spreads himself" at the expense of a rival who "welters" in "gush" or "slops over" too profusely.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
