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Example sentences for "whelmed"

Lexicographically close words:
wheezy; whele; whelk; whelks; whelm; whelming; whelms; whelp; whelpe; whelped
  1. For the desire to see her before he died, to look into her eyes, to touch her hand once, only once, assailed his mind and all but whelmed his will.

  2. His desire whelmed him like a wave; it filled his soul like a perfume, and against his will it rose to his lips in words.

  3. The apprehension was whelmed in the possessing movement with which he drew me to his breast.

  4. The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a widow.

  5. Sail on the"--but that moment a breaking sea dashed on him from Moby Dick, and whelmed him for the time.

  6. It, too, was whelmed in deep, temporary Nirvana.

  7. But the man from Troy, Ulysses, begins with the last, and is whelmed back into the first, and finally rests in the second before going to Ithaca.

  8. The other or eastern end of the isle was whelmed in the blackest shade.

  9. And there will always be the favourite and perhaps two other wives awake; four more lying supine under mats and whelmed in slumber.

  10. By charging galleys crushed and whelmed in death.

  11. But now there are none to gainsay that the gods are against us; we lie Subdued in the havoc of wreck, and whelmed by the wrath of the sky!

  12. I would that I too, I, Among the men who went to die, Were whelmed in earth by Fate's command!

  13. Thrice round the billow whirled her, as she lay, Then whelmed below.

  14. So, whelmed with darts, the Trojan chief defies The cloud of war, till all its storms abate, And chides and threatens Lausus.

  15. What sadder sight elsewhere Had Troy, now whelmed in utter wreck, to show?

  16. In another moment Bax was whelmed in spray and knee-deep in rushing water.

  17. Then slowly of his sorrow resentment was begotten, and being begotten it grew rapidly until it filled his mind and whelmed in its turn all else.

  18. Then to revive the anger that for a moment had been whelmed in astonishment came the reflection that he had been duped by Sakr-el-Bahr, duped by the man he trusted most.

  19. At once blackness whelmed all except the little fire.

  20. To all appearance, sleep had whelmed it for the night.

  21. Obliterated by the mental chaos it had caused, whelmed in the succeeding rush of fear, it now rose to recognition--a portentous fact.

  22. Something struck him and he fell to his knees, struggled against a smothering mass, then sank, whelmed in the crumbling collapse.

  23. All are put on a level, and whelmed under one penalty--DEATH.

  24. All are put on a level, and whelmed under one penalty--DEATH[A].

  25. Till the Narcissus, self-enamoured, whelmed in floods of flattery, Is cheated from the constancy and fervency of love by friendship's subtle praise.

  26. And sitting there, knife in hand, desire and yearning were lost and 'whelmed in fierce and black despair.

  27. Light blinded me; clamour deafened me; foam and the pure wave and cold darkness whelmed over me.

  28. His blindness stirred her anger, and her anger whelmed her hesitation.

  29. But such amazement as came to her was whelmed fathoms-deep in her sudden fears for Marius.

  30. The next instant he was whelmed in the avalanche of her words.

  31. This union of one of the descendants of Joel with a daughter of Neroweg was, in my estimation, to repair the iniquities that for centuries my family whelmed yours with.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whelmed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afloat; awash; beat; beaten; bested; confounded; defeated; discomfited; down; drenched; drowned; engulfed; fallen; fixed; flooded; floored; immersed; inundated; licked; outdone; overcome; overmatched; overpowered; overthrown; overwhelmed; panicked; permeated; ruined; saturated; scattered; settled; skinned; soaked; soaking; sodden; soggy; sopping; soused; submerged; swamped; trimmed; undone; upset; waterlogged; weeping; whipped; worsted