(n.) A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aldi is able to order this selection, more than 90% of which is own-label products, through bulk-buying, while dictating the package size in order to fit the maximum amount of goods on its shelves and lorries in order to keep costs low.
(2) He was on more certain statistical ground when he said that, since 2010, more than half the bike deaths in London have happened when lorries turned left across cyclists.
(3) Lorry drivers showed excess deaths from stomach cancer (SMR 141, p less than 0.05), lung cancer (SMR 159, p less than 0.05), bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma (SMR 143, p less than 0.05), a pattern not evident among taxi drivers.
(4) He lost contact with his father, a lorry driver, for several years, but says that his mother - aided by his uncle - made it her mission to shield him from the crime and disorder around them.
(5) Thirty-two Turkish lorry drivers who were seized in Mosul on 6 June were released a month later.
(6) She added that the superstore would have pulled business from the local high street and brought big lorries and heavy traffic to the site which sits next to Dreamland, Margate’s derelict amusement park which is being revived.
(7) If the amount of meat we produce doubles, livestock could be responsible for half as much climate impact as all the world's cars, lorries and airplanes.
(8) We have got people trying to illegally enter our country and here in Britain we have got lorry drivers and holidaymakers facing potential delays.
(9) British freight transport chiefs said the industry was losing £750,000 a day because of the huge problems lorry drivers have faced this summer trying to cross the Channel.
(10) When she made her official announcement to the press, even passing lorry drivers shouted good luck.
(11) Next to these disasters, the odd jostle to climb on to a refrigerated lorry in Calais, which recently was depicted as a hideous national crisis, is a minor issue.
(12) George Osborne is expected to announce in his budget next week that driverless lorries will be tested on UK roads.
(13) Emergency actions to reduce the health impacts included free public transport, reduced traffic speeds, lorry bans in the city centre, a ban on wood burning and four days of alternating bans on cars with odd or even number plates.
(14) Lorries carrying concrete blocks were visible in neighbourhoods across occupied east Jerusalem, including around Jabel Mukaber, home to one of the two Palestinians involved in Tuesday’s bus attack.
(15) The Met said the operation, at three busy locations, was intended "provide road safety advice", with lorries and cars also stopped.
(16) Aid workers were killed in the attack, lorries destroyed and there was severe damage to a medical clinic and warehouse where supplies were being unloaded.
(17) A lorry driver on the A706 was killed after a vehicle overturned on top of two cars at the Bogton roundabout in Bathgate, West Lothian, at 8.10am on Thursday.
(18) About 60 officers from Lancashire police are stationed at the site most days trying to strike the balance between facilitating peaceful protest and allowing Cuadrilla to continue its legal business activities – currently a regular flow of lorry deliveries, which are regularly stopped by demonstrators lying in the road.
(19) Hungarian police have arrested the driver of a lorry found on an Austrian motorway with the decomposing bodies of 71 people, including a baby girl, inside.
(20) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
Trolley
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Trolly
Example Sentences:
(1) This is where he would infuriate the neighbours by kicking the football over his house into their garden; this is Old Street, where his friends would wait in their car to whisk him off to basketball without his parents knowing; Pragel Street, where physiotherapists spotted him being wheeled in a Tesco shopping trolley by friends and suggested he took up basketball; the Housing Options Centre, where he sent a letter forged in his father's name saying he had thrown 16-year-old Ade out and he needed social housing.
(2) "We are seeing more and more reports of ambulances stacking up in car parks, more and more patients on trolleys in corridors," he said.
(3) The complete system, including efficient heavy lead shielding is contained on a bedside trolley.
(4) Her stooped figure shuffles slowly in, manoeuvring a giant shopping trolley around the door.
(5) There is the very real, or perhaps surreal, prospect, of postal workers simultaneously downing tools (parking their trolleys) and subscribing a few hundred quid for Royal Mail shares.
(6) Come the time, I will gladly hobble down the road with a trolley, nurse half a bitter for two hours, and spend whole days in front of the TV.
(7) In Adelaide we 'wet-set' our instruments, in Darwin we had small pre-packed trays which were set on trolleys sideways, and in Perth we had pre-sterilised boxes of instruments which we laid out on trolleys ourselves.
(8) Crunching their way gingerly along pavements scattered with de-icing salt, they hurried from shop to shop – young mothers wheeling pushchairs, older women leaning heavily on shopping trolleys, men trudging alongside their partners, laden with carrier bags.
(9) More and more patients are being left on trolleys, because they can't be admitted to hospital wards.
(10) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
(11) If it is considered desirable to decrease the contamination of less important areas when using a one-trolley system, trolleys should be washed regularly, particularly the wheels.
(12) The week to Sunday 7 December also saw a new all-time high of 7,760 patients forced to wait between four and 12 hours on a trolley to be admitted to a hospital bed from A&E.
(13) Burnham blamed government policies for almost 1m extra visits to A&E units across England recorded by the Department of Health in 2010-11 and a doubling of trolley waits – people waiting longer than four hours in A&E to be admitted – in a single year.
(14) Terkel won a Pulitzer prize for these stories, like that of Hobart Foote, or Babe Secoli the supermarket checker, who described customers engaged in something less like shopping than dodgem cars with trolleys, and garbage man Nick Salerno, discoursing on his long experience of how people pack their rubbish: "You get just like the milkman's horse — used to it."
(15) Johnson is the master-builder of that image, deflecting every lie, every gaffe, dishonesty and U-turn with some self-deprecating metaphor: calling his feigned indecision “veering all over the place like a shopping trolley” was worth a world of worthy platitudes.
(16) We conclude that there is no deleterious effect on the environment of the operating theatre, the most sensitive area, if only one trolley is used.
(17) A cumulative lifting index was constructed in a similar way from the four following characteristics: lifting weights of more than 15 kg, lifting patients more than ten times a day, making beds normally or often, and pushing beds or trolleys more than ten minutes a day.
(18) Comparing the Lib Dems to a shopping trolley that "left to its own devices defaults to the left and to being the party of protest", Browne said he became exposed after years of trying to exert "corrective pressure".
(19) Trolley waits of over four hours after a decision has been made to admit the patient totalled 52,769 - the second highest figure on record and 54% higher than November 2015.
(20) In its review , the Economis t came up with a useful everyday analogy: high-frequency traders are like "the people who offer you tasty titbits as you enter the supermarket to entice you to buy; but in this case, as you show appreciation for the goods, they race through the aisles to mark the price up before you can get your trolley to the chosen counter".