Wels

British  

/ vɛls /

noun

1. an industrial city in N central Austria, in Upper Austria. Pop: 56 478 (2002)

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Example Sentences

His name at birth in Linz, Austria, was Franz Leopold Maria Möst, and he switched it in 1985 to Welser-Möst in honor of Wels, a nearby city he grew up in.

From Seattle Times

Wels has exhaustively researched the assassination and all the factors leading up to it, especially Guiteau’s association with Oneida.

From Washington Post

At times, Wels seems too caught up in her own research.

From Washington Post

At its height, tourists flocked to what Wels describes as the “wild woodland” in Upstate New York, with orchards, livestock, “whizzing mills” and women with “queer cropped hair and shamelessly short skirts.”

From Washington Post

“He had accidentally attained the presidency,” Wels writes, “without the fire and vision for it that drove other candidates.”

From Washington Post