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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".

Trolly


Definition:

  • (n.) A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like.
  • (n.) A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal.
  • (n.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
  • (n.) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fuck da feds, bring your ballys and your bags trollys, cars vans, hammers the lot!!"
  • (2) They are not required to have floor space for buggies, shopping trollies or wheeled suitcases — still less for lots of people to stand opposite the exit doors.
  • (3) If it is knocked or rubbed hard it may well go off.” Belgian prosecutors said they believed the airport bombers transported their devices by taxi and before placing them on luggage trollies.
  • (4) Sky, not previously known for its homegrown comedy output, has been investing heavily in the genre of late with shows such as Stella with former Gavin & Stacey star Ruth Jones, and Trollied starring Jane Horrocks.
  • (5) Executive producer Ash Atalla (The Office, The IT Crowd, Trollied) said: "Cuckoo is one of my favourite shows I've ever been involved in.
  • (6) The son of a truck driver, he left school at 16 and pushed trollies at a supermarket.
  • (7) Fuck da feds, bring your ballys and your bags trollys, cars vans, hammers the lot!!
  • (8) Battalions of tartan shopping trollies bursting with green vegetables and juicy fruits from Olhão's markets are lashed to Rio Bello's blue-washed funnel, and we're off.
  • (9) This is partly down to solid writing, but it’s mainly because Trollied has an ensemble large enough to absorb cast changes.
  • (10) Trollied Sky1’s big attempt at a mainstream sitcom is now in its fourth series.
  • (11) It’s hard to fight the sensation that Trollied is basically Waterloo Road with a deli counter, but it’s likely to deliver regardless.

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