How To Use Welter In A Sentence

As it was, we spent a couple of sweltering hours there and left.
But his police career ended in a welter of accusations that in order to obtain results, he hadn't just bent the rules, he'd twisted them out of shape.
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I sat at our old compounding table, surrounded by a welter of Skill-scrolls. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Huntington welterweight Glenn Banks is set to grace the international stage when he flies to Copenhagen at the end of the month.

For spouts of wild fury dashed up into the clouds; and the shore, wherever any sight of it was left, weltered in a sadly frothsome state, like the chin of a Titan with a lather-brush at work. Mary Anerley
He has won titles at welterweight and middleweight.
The former world light welterweight champion hit a trough of despair after two high-profile defeats. The Sun
For four years there were no title fights for the welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight or heavyweight crowns.
It was not a crushing weight, such as an operation, or seeing one's best friend off to live in Tasmania; nor was it anything so light as a committee meeting, or a deaf uncle to tea: it was a kind of welter-weight doom. Mrs. Miniver
Henry Armstrong held world titles at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight simultaneously and won 150 fights.
You may be confused about what way to vote today, given the welter of claim and counterclaim over the last month.
They sweltered in temperatures rising to a hundred degrees.
As Hong Kong sweltered for the second day under smoggy skies, a health lobby group called on the government to reform its current air pollution health warnings saying they are inadequate.
If you thought that you were sweltering more than usual during February you were far from wrong.
Tennis stars play five-set matches in sweltering heat. Times, Sunday Times
United forced to change press conference arrangements due to sweltering heat in a tiny room. The Sun
The rest have been sleeping in tents outside in sweltering summer temperatures. Times, Sunday Times
If at times the voice of the song is plaintive, that is no more than a reflection of broken homesteads and sweltering emigrant ships. The Irish Mind
At the 2003 games, the USA qualified a spot in three divisions: featherweight, welterweight and super heavyweight.
Outside the Waldorf-Astoria, demonstrators and cops shivered in a cold, persistent drizzle; inside, delegates sweltered in the over-heating that seems to tempt every hotel manager.
And this is the one that I have been sweltering over this hot August week. Times, Sunday Times
She recently left a preview screening with a moist eye and a welter of praise for the team who faithfully realised the adaptation.
Why are you lumbering around with that lump on your back on this sweltering summer morning? Times, Sunday Times
In his next fight, Taylor dropped back down to welterweight, where he was matched against a giant welterweight in Crisanto Espana.
Even a dunderhead knows that fans swelter in summer's bleachers and bundle in December's cold out of a love for the contests, not for sociological or business deconstructions.
Benny "Kid" Paret was a Cuban boxer who won the welterweight title for the first time in 1960, but lost it seven months later when Emile Griffith knocked him out.
The sweltering conditions will run into the middle of next week with the addition of the odd thunderstorm.
The World Cup overlaps the cricketing season here: the run-up to the sweltering summer months when sun-baked rice fields double as cricket stadiums in the suburban areas.
He defended the title successfully a total of six times, before vacating it when he ascended to the welterweight division. WN.com - Articles related to Art of War: Floyd Mayweather's incentive to sign late
It was mid summer by now and the weather could be unbearable at times, the sweltering heat making you break out in a sweat.
He wanders into a local gym, sees world welterweight champion Yuri in the ring, and offers to spar with him.
Dying in sweltering heat when there aren’t 120 mile an hour winds and flooding outside blocking rescuers is just stupid. Schadenfreude as media bias « BuzzMachine
United forced to change press conference arrangements due to sweltering heat in a tiny room. The Sun
Any Given Day deserves his welter burden. The Sun
The relentless sweltering had gotten to all of us, kids and adults alike; we were short tempered and cranky and prone to starting fights over nothing.
The New York Sun's art critic wrote that Kent… knocks you off your pins with these broad, realistic, powerful representations of weltering seas, men laboring in boats, rude rocky headland and snowbound landscapes…
Hong Kong sweltered yesterday in its hottest day so far this year with the mercury reaching a monstrous 37 degrees in the western New Territories and 34 degrees in urban areas.
[Footnote 10: snake, bad steer.] [Footnote 11: Dolly welter, rope tied all around the saddle.] [Footnote 12: rim-fire saddle, without flank girth.] Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
Bags of ice became a relatively scarce commodity as the population tried to remain cool in the sweltering heat of summer. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
Thousands of tonnes of rotting rubbish form mountains on the streets in sweltering heat. Times, Sunday Times
But he lacks the attacking instincts and power compared to the welterweight elite. The Sun
Dozens of boys and men suffocated to death, locked for days in an airless, sweltering shipping container by rebels controlling northern Ivory Coast, two survivors said.
The matronly Judith, unable to hack off Holofernes's head, carves through it with businesslike concentration, pinioning him to the blood-weltering bed with the help of her equally brutish maidservant.
His garish attire and self-composure only irked Seven further because she was currently sweltering in one of her light gray bodysuits, which rarely felt so restrictive. Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle
In the decade of the 40's, Burley was ranked in the top 10 in both the welterweight and middleweight and yet there was no title shot.
Most people could be forgiven for feeling confused after a welter of conflicting reports about the right balance of food groups. Times, Sunday Times
He was a welterweight then, and is now only a light-middleweight, so that shows how well he has managed his weight.
I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. Epistle Dedicatory
On a sweltering afternoon 110 years ago today, President William McKinley stood in a receiving line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Scott Miller: The McKinley Assassination and Terrorism Today
Last year, partly due to a sweltering summer, we guzzled 25 per cent more rosé wines than the year before.
The widow weltered in tears.
The Welshman takes on Tate in Newcastle on 14 December, sharing top billing with undefeated WBU light-welterweight champion Ricky Hatton.
It can feel freezing in the morning and sweltering by the afternoon. The Sun
English masterpieces of immaculate and moderately good prose extracts and dramatic passages, published with notes for the use of the native student, at weltering in a hotchpot and hurley-burley of arbitrarily distorted and very vulgarised cockneydoms and purely London provincialities, which must be of necessity to him as casting pearls before a swine! Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
But just might add that there has been a welter of confusing and contradictory information coming out of various parts of the leadership.
Margarito is one of the fiercest welterweights to come along in years.
They say that they will remove the masks only when the sweltering summer comes around - when they will be replaced by large sunglasses. Times, Sunday Times
It's not a smart move to gratuitously antagonise a welterweight boxing champ.
The sweltering English summer of 1911 is one example. Times, Sunday Times
According to reports from Chris, who went out there a few days ago, the weather has ranged from sweltering to incapacitating.
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ENGLAND are set to face sweltering conditions AGAIN tomorrow. The Sun
Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. Man and Superman
Following his title loss to former welterweight champion Matt Hughes, he came back to destroy Jens Pulver. Staradvertiser Headlines
This place is run by a collection of idiots and nasties, who force the boys to dig holes in the sweltering sun.
Pigs often welter in the mud.
Having to sit on stage in sweltering heat all day taking the brunt of increasingly short-tempered attendees is not going to be much fun.
He did, however, think it strange for this young, uninvited guest to be swathed in a blanket-like shawl, or "patu," given the sweltering summer heat. War in Context
Castellani was a top class fighter who met the best the welterweight and middleweight divisions could offer.
Many urbanites in southern Europe flee their sweltering cities for the mountains or coast in summer.
I was stone cold sober, and the room was sweltering.
Ultimately, the issue is larger than the welter of provisions some say would criminalize youth.
In fiction, the sweltering heat has long been a powerful catalyst to characters behaving badly. Times, Sunday Times
a sweltering room
The air conditioning was broken, so the cab was sweltering.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of poor fishing people were still stuck in sweltering inland camps, patrolled by soldiers with machine guns and entirely dependent on relief agencies for food and water. Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives
For now, although I couldn't guess it, as I lay pampering myself with a little preserved jellied chicken and Rhine wine - of which Willy's store-chest yielded a fine abundance - that terrible day was approaching, that awful thunderclap of a day when the world turned upside down in a welter of powder-smoke and cannon-shot and steel, which no one who lived through it will ever forget. The Sky Writer
A man needs a stout heart, a clear head, and a sure hand, to hold his own in a welter of interests and antagonisms such as beset me. The Black Colonel
We lay up in the stuffy, sweltering heat of the wood all afternoon, listening to the incessant thunder of the cannonading; one consolation was the regular crash of the artillery salvoes, which indicated that Wheeler's gunners were making good practice, and must still be well stocked with powder and shot. Fiancée
We are reducing the company's welter of development projects and will streamline sales and marketing.
Give me some ice water,I'm going to swelter.
There's a lot of welterweight prospects coming through at the moment, like Matthew Macklin and David Barnes, people who Matthew deserves to be classed in that same bracket with.
I'm a bit ill from the most recent increase in my Prazosin dosage, bad timing with this swelter. -06
On a sweltering sugar plantation, two brothers quarrel. Times, Sunday Times
The ending peters out inconclusively in a welter of playful/sloppy metafictional games.
Parts of the southern hemisphere are sweltering hot. Times, Sunday Times
He had hit his ball to within a short wedge of the 350-yard par-four hole, and was intent on getting his score down to nine under after a welter of missed opportunities.
Often, as I am sipping on a low-fat caffe latte in some fashionable bistro, I will look up and see a jogger stagger past, his sweltering torso festooned with tattoos, at least one reading "Only the Strong Survive. Hey, Buddy, Keep Your Shirt On!
Your soulmate is probably in Houston, Texas sweltering in the humid, hot as hell climate, while you're in Ireland, where I hear it occasionally gets colder than a well-digger's bum. All the Sad Songs
Sitting on the stone bench now she tilted her head up towards the sky and the welter of bare branches overhead.
Captain Robins was a Yorkshireman in his fifties who had long since lost his accent amidst the welter of a dozen dialects.
I only managed 616 words on "January 28, 1926," before the swelter of the office got to me. Howard Hughes vs. the Amazon Sales Rank
Sweltering heat and clammy weather can at times really put you off.
The welter of emotions arising out of the dictates of Iranian faith, justice, honour, pride and fear here is alarming and compelling. Berlin film festival – review
Every weekend during the sweltering month of August, from 1652 until 1866, the drains of the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi were blocked so that the waters would overflow and flood much of Piazza Navona, a sort of aqueous reincarnation of the naumachiae, or mock naval battles, that were once staged on the same site more than a thousand years ago. Archive 2009-07-01
The dramatic reconstruction sees Cornwall's tropical gardens impersonating the sweltering heat of Darien.
If you win, will you move up to 154 pounds or continue defending your welter titles?
It was a sweltering spring bank holiday, and he had not had long to prepare for such an auspicious moment.
Why are you lumbering around with that lump on your back on this sweltering summer morning? Times, Sunday Times
Here we see, not a confusing welter of compromises and half-measures, but a clear and logical relationship in which each pole is balanced and complemented by the other.
The sweltering weather is set to last a MONTH. The Sun
American junior welters such as DeMarcus ‘Chop Chop’ Corley are starting to call him out.
We recommended that change and, after a welter of political criticism, independent evidence shows that it is working. Times, Sunday Times
And in this welter of spoiled treasure were the great conjuring books hurled amid the ruin of retorts and aludels of glass and lead and silver, tossed and broken on the chamber floor.
But as I lay the book down, it made me think about one of the much belaboured tropes of literary writing - that the author so often feels obliged not to be straightforward, but to hide the truth of the tale in a welter of words that have to be decoded. The literary trope
The reveille filled the air, the two Garda members ushered on the traffic and under the midday sweltering sun, the tricolour was raised, now flying proudly at full mast.
Dozens of boys and men suffocated to death, locked for days in an airless, sweltering shipping container by rebels controlling northern Ivory Coast, according to two survivors.
There was a sweltering heat that prickled his back and the back of his neck.
Crammed into sweltering buses and sleek subway cars, pedaling their rusty bikes, they swarm to work.
Allied to the sweltering heat, the top class entertainment, amusements and facilities added to the successful event.
The make-up people excelled themselves with lots of dirty fingernails and a welter of warts, wens and rotten corpses.
He went on to win the light welter weight title the following year and five more at welterweight.
By organizing the book topically, Beaufort gives useful shape to the welter of details, in the aid of a larger argument.
That explains, to some degree, how Steve Maxwell, an Australian, can be boxing next week at the Traktor Sport Palace in Chelyabinsk, Russia, for the WBC Asian Boxing Council welterweight title against Anton "The Pick Hammer" Novikov of Russia. Training for a Heavyweight Bout? Better Take a Geography Lesson
Grocery chains, for example, have a welter of special needs, such as deductions for promotions, fees to guarantee the best placement of products on shelves and coupons.
He began boxing when he was 11 years old and later turned professional, fighting for 17 years as a welterweight.
Almost overnight, it seems, pavement cafés have sprung up around the city and are the coolest places to be on sweltering afternoons.
It dawned hot and sweltering. Times, Sunday Times
I got to the top about 15 minutes before them but then I made a big mistake and took my hat off because I was sweltering.
Why are you lumbering around with that lump on your back on this sweltering summer morning? Times, Sunday Times
Test conditions have included a scramble along Glencoe's Aonach Eagach ridge and a two-day back pack in sweltering heat.
Teachers said they had to keep windows shut in sweltering conditions as they feared some pupils may be allergic to stings. The Sun
He speaks of taking on all the top junior welters, and he has also toyed with the idea of going up seven pounds to take on welterweight champion Cory Spinks.
we were sweltering at the beach
At a very human level, televisions flickered off and air-conditioning units stopped whirring in sweltering heat.
A typical room was drafty and chilly in winter and humid and sweltering in summer.
They may be sweltering and risking dehydration at one moment then combating hypothermia as the wind swings round to the east.
It dawned hot and sweltering. Times, Sunday Times
There is a level of desperation provided in the performances, and the monochrome image sells the desert swelter very well.
Enjoy those sweltering days of summer in style, and what better way to do it than to hang out on the leafy deck of a beautiful house?
Jarred from their place by the impact when the boat struck, and papering the cabin sole with vital, unused information was a welter of neatly rolled charts which he trampled in his haste.
Thus, the didactic purpose of the original project dissolved in a welter of abstruse, sentimental versifying.
My stepsister and I would lie, terrified, in a sweltering hotel room, turning up our walkmans and longing for home where at least we had the sanctuary of our own bedrooms to escape the bitterness and shouting.
Hundreds of children sweltering in the heat went to the neighborhood pool.
They were antiheroes before antiheroism was cool, and it’s that certitude of their old-school hipness that they cling to ever harder to deal with the welter of criticisms you cite above. Why Would They Lie? | ATTACKERMAN
The screaming fans couldn't compose themselves even in the sweltering heat.
The ending peters out inconclusively in a welter of playful / sloppy metafictional games.
While the north coast has sweltered under the hottest February sun for 100 years, the rains have arrived just in time to remind us it's winter sport sign-on.
School children are sweating it out with soaring summer temperatures and record levels of humidity leaving the region in a swelter.
And though he dug deep, he unearthed neither disdain nor contempt in the welter of feelings Cat produced in him. Earl of Durkness
On the downside it's 300 km from the sea, freezing in the winter, sweltering in the summer.
The merciless street-fighter known as the ‘fists of stone’ went on to win world titles at lightweight, welterweight and light middleweight.
Conversely, in spring, it can be sweltering and yet it is not officially ‘warm’ yet so the students have to stay wearing their winter woollies whilst the rest of the country has moved onto cool cottons.
The pivotal moments that will eventually adorn tomorrow's history books are often hidden in the welter of noise generated by the media.
‘In earlier days, people sprayed water as the sweltering heat and the sandy path caused great inconvenience to the palanquin bearers,’ the priest says.
Under the impact of soaring oil prices living standards collapsed in a welter of rationing and corruption.
After the battle[sentence dictionary], the whole field was weltering in blood.
Then the queen was nigh out of her wit, and then she writhed and weltered as Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Over the summer Matt, from Rodbourne, completed the Athens marathon despite sweltering temperatures.
I got there early, left late, and was surrounded by swarms of nubile young tourists on a sweltering hot day and… ooh!
I'm not arguing that one should swelter in woolen knee socks during July and August. Generation Sock
Sweltering mist of changing shades slithered through the funnels and fissures of the ship, constantly spewing out balls of effusive film containing radioactive particles and radiant flares.
Traditional cave houses make a wonderfully cool retreat in Greece's sweltering summer heat. Times, Sunday Times
The sweltering English summer of 1911 is one example. Times, Sunday Times
And he was doing that at middleweight, 13 lb heavier than his natural welterweight.
One of the beach packed with visitors sweltering in Mediterranean-style sunshine.
I did a neat backward somersault and landed in the river in a welter of blue and silver, unpleasantly aware I could not swim.
We're located in Tucson AZ, the sweltering armpit of the southwest desert region, surrounded by the empty shafts of defunct cold-war missile silos.
Why is there such a welter of often contradictory diet advice? Times, Sunday Times
Despite the sweltering heat, he was wearing trousers and a full-length shirt.
How they must look down at us sitting there, sweltering away in the morning sun, and laugh their heads off at us.
However, the sound soon disappears in the welter of notes Sibelius gives his soloists in his only Violin Concerto.
The former world light welterweight champion has undergone a transformation in attitude and fighting style. The Sun
Serving on sweltering ironclads and steamers or on marginally seaworthy vessels required increased attention to medical care, nutrition, and morale for volunteer citizen-sailors.
From babies to grannies, everybody was enjoying themselves playing ball, building sandcastles or just basking in the glory of the sweltering rays.
The weather through late June and July was mostly sweltering, and nobody had much energy for games. EVERVILLE
Pigs often welter in the mud.
Bags of ice became a relatively scarce commodity as the population tried to remain cool in the sweltering heat of summer. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
When the weather is sweltering, how we long for the cooling respite of a dip in a swimming pool. Times, Sunday Times
In the stables behind the house she who had carried him on his ride, having rummaged out her last grains of corn, lifted her nose and poked it through the bars of her loosebox to see what he was doing who had not carried her master that sweltering afternoon, and seeing that he was awake, she snorted lightly, to tell him there was thunder in the air. The Country House
Men lived and worked with volatile herbicides for ten days straight each fortnight, some over several years, in the sweltering monsoonal climate.
He finished up in a red-birded helmet, playing in a half-filled stadium in the sweltering Arizona desert. USATODAY.com - No return of the king: Emmitt Smith retires
A welter of poems, plays, epics and narrative poetry came into existence all at once, altering the landscape of literary activity in Bengal forever.
The Gospel she shared with me was like a refreshing breeze in a sweltering summer.
The dramatic reconstruction sees Cornwall's tropical gardens impersonating the sweltering heat of Darien.
However a debate has simmered for years as to whether journalism has improved with the welter of academic courses which produce hundreds of graduates each year.
He has won titles at welterweight and middleweight.
Evidently, only the images and metaphors of fiction could do justice to the welter of searing impressions.
More than 30 of Japan's 54 reactors were idled over the summer, causing electricity shortages amid the sweltering heat. New PM: Japan should aim to reduce nuclear power
Distant reeds cast stilettos of shadow as the sun weltered red and swollen behind them. Dancing with Werewolves
It was Milton, I told him, but unfortunately those bold words were spoken by Satan, as he is weltering about in Hell and has, in fact, lost everything.
What I saw on that sweltering morning struck me like a thunderbolt. Times, Sunday Times
The locked-out crowd had two choices: remain uncomfortably warm in the plaza, or crowd into the box-office area and swelter unbearably.
The rest have been sleeping in tents outside in sweltering summer temperatures. Times, Sunday Times
The welterweight king 's camp insisted the injections were a mixture of saline and vitamins and not illegal. The Sun
The footage takes a closer look inside the rave party's sweltering ovens of bass and drugs.
Such Biblical allusion was in stark contrast to the welter of less printable comments being bellowed by the faithful.
In fiction, the sweltering heat has long been a powerful catalyst to characters behaving badly. Times, Sunday Times
Henry Armstrong held world titles at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight simultaneously and won 150 fights.
After the battle, the whole field was weltering in blood.
I'd wager if you did this, you list the super welters on down as being far superior then those above, at least in terms of providing the fans the best experience.
I'll clean up everything at light welter then I'll move up to welterweight and clean up there as well.
As Hong Kong sweltered for the second day under smoggy skies, a health lobby group called on the government to reform its current air pollution health warnings saying they are inadequate.
His beady black eyes actually weltered in some fluid as he eyed my nose and its little glint of bling. Dancing with Werewolves
In the midst of the tumult of charges against him, a welter of conflicting poll numbers are being bandied about.
Hearns put many outstanding fighters to sleep for the count of 10 with one right hand from welterweight up to super middleweight.
The islands show dimly grey amid a welter of grey water, breaking angrily in short, petulant seas, which buffet boats confusedly and put the helmsmen's skill to a high test. Priscilla's Spies
Mark Melligen of the Philippines, right, takes a punch from Gabriel Martinez of Mexico during their 10-round welterweight fight at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on Feb. 19.
Arpaio knows that the genteel class is willing to do just about anything to avoid having to serve time in the tents, where inmates are packed in like rats to swelter in the summer and get chilled to the bone in the winter. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Crazy Joe Arpaio Sh*t

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