welt
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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
The ball sent Miller’s hat flying off his head and left the 25-year-old former starter with a large red welt on his forehead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 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
Pale as chalk, he was, 'cept for the red welt where his tie'd burnt.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
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
After my son broke out in welts, I took him to the pediatrician for his fourth visit in three weeks.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
He massages his fingers, crisscrossed with welts from the leather straps of the bag.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Instead he just welted it straight down Coady’s pipe.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 4, 2021
He also found violet tendrils of the welted thistle, native to Europe and Asia.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2021
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
Wicker concludes the scene many hours later: It sounds like a welted voice wincing at the basement’s night.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2013
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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