(1) They rightly perceive that there is a better chance that retailers can get it to them there.” James Daunt, chief executive of the bookstore chain Waterstones , said its online deliveries were being delayed by “one or two days” as a result of problems at its courier service, Yodel, which has been overwhelmed with demand from the retailers it serves.
(2) But they are easy to miss amid the glut of MOR crooners – Nat King Cole, Pat Boone, Mel Torme, Frank Ifield yodeling his way through Hank Williams's Lovesick Blues – and the sound of the Joe Loss Orchestra.
(3) On Thursday delivery firm Yodel also admitted to problems with a backlog of deliveries and temporarily halted pick-ups from retailers.
(4) People will opt for that as they are guaranteed their item rather than relying on the likes of Yodel.” Demand for click and collect is growing ahead of the online retail market, which was expected to increase by 22% this year with 930m parcels dispatched.
(5) 7.37pm GMT “Evening Ian,” yodels Simon McMahon.
(6) Kesha, the pop star who first rose to fame with the loopily yodeled party hit Tik Tok in 2009, appeared to suffer a severe legal setback last Friday .
(7) There had been female singers in country music before – the indefatigably yodelling Patsy Montana; Molly O'Day, all gingham and tears; the regal Sara Carter – but they always required the presence of male protectors: singing husbands or an all-male backing band.
(8) Austria election: far-right candidate and rival tied at 50% in exit poll Read more His campaign videos have featured some unabashed yodelling, his speeches have often referred to the attachment he feels to his Tyrolean H eimat (homeland), and he has repeatedly stressed the social duties and obligation to integrate of Austria’s 90,000 newly arrived refugees.
(9) Morrissey had started yodelling by then, and he'd get down on his shoulders and put his legs straight into the air.
(10) In the Hermes and Yodel model, they only get paid once.” Nicholson said Hermes’ rising profitability “is on the back of the lifestyle couriers who have had little or no increase in what they get per parcel for the last three years”.
(11) Marks & Spencer , Tesco, Debenhams and Argos have all warned of delivery delays in the wake of Black Friday, while courier company Yodel has admitted that it had stopped collecting parcels from retailers because it was struggling to cope with the volume of goods being bought online.
(12) Hermes couriers, alongside workers at the Royal Mail’s ParcelForce and other companies such as Yodel, are the footsoldiers of the internet shopping boom.
(13) This slow frequency change relaxed back to baseline following a biexponential time course which closely resembled that of a distinct behavior seen in intact fish, termed 'yodeling' (Dye 1987).
(14) The second behavior, which we have termed a 'yodel', is distinct from and kinetically intermediate to chirping and the JAR.
(15) Some Amazon customers in Britain are facing the prospect of orders failing to arrive in time for Christmas following the inability of courier companies such as Yodel to cope with a surge in online shopping.
(16) Yodel, with 8,000 couriers, operates a similar system.
(17) It was the second worst performer in the survey, behind Yodel.
(18) "About eleven o'clock, Lucille Henderson, observing that her party was soaring at the proper height, and just having been smiled at by Jack Delroy, forced herself to glance over in the direction of Edna Phillips, who since eight o'clock had been sitting in the big red chair, smoking cigarettes and yodelling hellos and wearing a very bright eye which young men were not bothering to catch," writes Salinger.
(19) These studies compare the pitch perturbations during the crescendo and decrescendo of a swell-tone, and show typical traces of staccato, thrill and yodel.
(20) 'Yodeling' (Dye 1987) appears to involve similar, characteristic changes in the pattern of firing as those seen during chirping.
Yokel
Definition:
(n.) A country bumpkin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "No one would vote for them because they were seen as fascist yokels," says Niklas Orrenius, a journalist who has studied the movement for years.
(2) The Brontës are shown, with understated relish, as lonely, half-mad spinsters, surrounded by insufferable yokels and the unmentionable stench of death.
(3) This is not just fashion, this is fashion that tries to appeal to grannies and girls alike; to yuppies and yokels, hipsters and hip-replacements.
(4) When, early in the game, a foul-mouthed minor Russian mafioso named Vlad dismisses Niko as a "yokel", he is not wrong.
(5) In future, for the benefit of we yokels, please refer to the Metropolitan police as being in “that there London”.
(6) Talented young actors who wanted a classical career, but lacked the physical delicacy required of ingénues, used to be warned that Shakespeare had written few roles suited to a blunt woman: they might play Maria the housekeeper in Twelfth Night, yokel Audrey in As You Like It, and – the big threat – the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet.
(7) As leader, he has run his party with Bolshevik efficiency – hammering a caucus perhaps a bit over-laden, by historical standards, with yokels, whackos and chancers, into a wide-eyed, tight-lipped regiment of skittish yes-people.
(8) A charged antipyrine analogue may be useful to determine BBB integrity with concomitant antipyrine characterization of probe efficiency (Yokel et al., 1992, J Pharmacol Toxicol Methods 27:135-142), and may not require another analytical technique.