Welty
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Welty never married, and she declared that she’d come from “a sheltered life.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Her fiction, so alive to sensory experience and the interior struggles of the mind and heart, helped extend the literary tradition of Virginia Woolf, a modernist whom Welty deeply admired.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
She said Welty would gently edit her students’ work, returning manuscripts with handwritten remarks.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Gilchrist said she was comfortable reading William Faulkner and Eudora Welty because their characters spoke in the Southern cadence that was familiar to her.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
“I said I’d found the Welty we discussed. I wish you had called first, Leon. I don’t know what else to tell you.”
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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