How to Use welter in a Sentence

welter

noun

• In all of this, in all the welter of the world and all the things in it, who understands my sadness?
  — Daniel Dorsa, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
• DeLillo glimpsed, in the mid-’80s, a welter of clues about the world that was coming into being.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Aug. 2022
• The other half is the welter of rules for determining what income gets taxed and what does not.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 7 June 2021
• This new welter of facts, though, may be different (hope springs eternal).
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 4 Mar. 2022
• In a movie that is redolent of violence, yet devoid of bloodshed, here is a welter of scarlet.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2021
• As to the season, the details always blur into a welter of emotions and affections.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
• Britain’s schools debate echoes that in the United States and has swept in the same welter of thorny issues: economics, social justice, race, and the role of government.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• On the other side is a welter of docks, cranes, favelas, and apartment blocks, marked with more gang tags and festering with uncollected garbage.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• The debate swirled around a welter of different timelines for the schools, technically a state agency, from as little as two years to as much as 10.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
• As more urgent beats kicked in, Mr. Williams ratcheted up the pace and the emotion, sending out a welter of looks layered with elements of workwear, streetwear, normcore and grunge.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• It has been called out for the whiteness of its cast, the welter of its plots, the shallowness of its characters and the fact that so many of the relationships involve men in power and the women who work for them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• But the efficiencies those techniques might have ensured are lost in a welter of paperwork.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 30 June 2021
• But there is something else hovering just to the side: the paradox that rises, willy-nilly, from the welter of contrariness Bailey unveils.
  — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2021
• Boxing's day one in men's heavyweight and men's welter and light heavyweight as well as women's featherweight begin.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 7 Aug. 2021
• In recent years, there has been a welter of developments in the U.F.O. world that has brought the subject out of the realm of science fiction and supermarket tabloids, and into the halls of Congress and the pages of newspapers of record.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
• From nine simple notes, a welter of potent, bittersweet emotions.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 6 July 2020
• Despite the calls for unity, some Tory lawmakers are mulling ways to topple Truss, who was elected by the party after Johnson was forced out in July amid a welter of ethics scandals.
  — Jill Lawless, ajc, 9 Oct. 2022
• The images of modern Europe, or at least Poland and Italy, reveal economic hardship and a welter of predators and victims, the hunters and the hunted, without amping up the melodramatics.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
• Live performances have always based pricing on sightlines (with a premium on proximity to the stage) and now even the entertainment content available in our own homes comes with a welter of rates and price points.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• But there is also a model that rice agriculture had two independent origins, in India and China, which gave rise to the indica and japonica strains from the welter of wild rice lineages.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2011
• Beneath the painting lies a welter of flower bouquets, handmade placards, photos, and other offerings of anguish, anger, and unity.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2020
• America’s august legislative bodies are a simmering welter of dysfunction, and there is no end in sight.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 30 Sep. 2021
• The old 40-hertz oscillation hypothesis of Crick and Koch has yielded to a welter of fancier neural-correlate models.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
• Party leadership worried that a welter of additional amendments might push Manchin away.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
• Then there’s the spring training game when Hall of Famer Randy Johnson, a flamethrowing southpaw, annihilated (accidentally) a bird that flew into the path of a fastball, the doomed creature exploding in a welter of feathers.
  — Andrew R. Graybill, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• The silence across the government did not still a welter of questions surrounding the incident that is an embarrassment to wide swatches of the federal authorities in San Diego, from the Department of Justice to the court and court agencies.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
• Investment and trade have been disrupted by a welter of new procedures at ports, while immigrants have forsaken the country, yielding severe shortages of workers.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• The game is cartoonish, colorful, silly, and self-serious in equal measure as WoW ever was, with a welter of distinctions created by its venerable and beloved IP.
  — Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• The mammoth package wrapped the pandemic aid bill together with an omnibus $1.4 trillion measure to fund the federal government through the fiscal year, along with a welter of tax breaks and unrelated policy measures.
  — Mike Dorning, Bloomberg.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• The welter of flashbacks early on eventually gives way to a seriously halfhearted action climax.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024