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In other cities, steelworkers are reported to have welded new obstructions into place: forging their own defences.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2022
Many of the trucks have welded steel-plate armor, turrets and firing slots.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 20, 2020
Giving in to rebel demands, however, would encourage similar hostage taking in the future and open the door to a violent past that the President has claimed to have welded shut.
From Time Magazine Archive
Workmen have welded closed two of its four massive entrance gates.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have welded close the coop Wherein our luckless Frenchmen are enjailed With such compression that their front has shrunk From five miles' farness to but half as far.—
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
