How to Use welter in a Sentence

welter

noun
  • This new welter of facts, though, may be different (hope springs eternal).
    — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 4 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The other half is the welter of rules for determining what income gets taxed and what does not.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 7 June 2021
  • In sum, Lewis’s piece is a welter of contradictions.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • The result was very close, and the output of a welter of different inputs.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
  • 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
  • From nine simple notes, a welter of potent, bittersweet emotions.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 6 July 2020
  • As to the season, the details always blur into a welter of emotions and affections.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 27 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
  • But the efficiencies those techniques might have ensured are lost in a welter of paperwork.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 30 June 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
  • The move came amid a welter of changes to the section, according to an investigation by Reuters.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • 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 excavation was completed this past summer, but a welter of material awaits study.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • 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 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
  • Party leadership worried that a welter of additional amendments might push Manchin away.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The welter of flashbacks early on eventually gives way to a seriously halfhearted action climax.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Thanks to a welter of protective regulations born of roughly a century of spirited statehouse lobbying, cutting out the dealer middleman is legally tricky.
    — Alexander Wells, Car and Driver, 19 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Prediction need not be conditional on perfection, and clearly systematic patterns and processes can emerge from a seemingly chaotic welter.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2010
  • 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
  • Their calculations take into consideration several critical factors, from devotion to family and love of country, to the ability to control fear amid a welter of dramatic news about the conflict.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2022
  • 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

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