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[welt] / wɛlt /


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Donovan seemed to use downstairs as his target with Crocker bringing the uppercut into play but he would find himself with a huge welt under the left eye by the end of the fourth.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025

Among Germany’s other greatest portmanteau exports are weltschmerz, a combination of welt for “world” and schmerz for “pain,” meaning a “sensation of melancholy and world-weariness.”

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2025

There was also the time Clyde woke me up by nipping my chin hard enough to leave a welt because I had not served his breakfast quickly enough.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

I just had a welt on my head that looked like I saluted too hard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024

I stop in the downstairs bathroom to look at it in the mirror and there’s a big red welt.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

But it’s not only annoying pink welts that Faraji’s team is concerned about.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Gao suffers from chronic lumbar spine disease, arthritis, eye problems and chronic urticaria – a skin condition that causes itchy red welts.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

With red welts scattered like landmarks of the war she’d just waged, Kelsey Plum let the microphone have it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2025

Mild to moderate signs of food allergy include a swollen face, lips or eyes; hives or welts on your skin; or vomiting.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

I could feel the welts rising even before I straightened up.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Instead he just welted it straight down Coady’s pipe.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 4, 2021

The Yarmouth player eventually came off the ice, his face visibly red and welted, Len Boogaard said.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2021

These are the type of welted leather boots that can last decades if treated properly, and they’re priced accordingly.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2018

By contrast the men's market has benefitted from higher-priced items such as Goodyear welted shoes which enjoy a healthy export trade to Europe, Asia and US.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2017

I do not think I could have watched them cut, but 1 watched the wound closed into a high welted ridge with quick skilful-looking stitches like a cobbler's, and was glad.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

Harnage stands alone on a darkened stage, amid a forest of ropes — soft sculptures made of cotton welting — that dropped like curtains.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

EST 14:00 71 min A good move involving Lukaku and Lennon ends with Azpilicueta welting the ball clear from inside his own six-yard box.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2016

Hang on, umpire Steve Davis is looking towards the horizon - and just like that it's welting it down.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2010

Examples: > In Liverpool, dock-wallopers practice a custom called "welting"; half of an eight-man crew works while the other half loafs, and at intervals they change roles.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had known too many Marine wives and children who had come to their front door and found dour messengers, their faces carved from the ices of duty, standing with tragic news welting their tongues.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy


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