Sentences with word «vuvuzela»

Dickson put everything from an iPhone to hockey pucks and a toilet plunger to a World Cup vuvuzela in to the blender.

The inclusion of vuvuzela comes after months of exclusion for the annoying noisemaker; since the July Cup final, the horns have been banned by many baseball, football and soccer teams, and recently FIBA announced that they would not be permitted at the upcoming world basketball championships in Turkey.

The first two chapters of this macho mood piece intrigued me, but after the third or fourth variation on the same theme, it started feeling ponderous: too slow, too one - note, and leaden where it wanted to be weighty, the electric guitars on the soundtrack too loud and monotone too, like vuvuzelas at the World Cup.

Feel free to toot your own vuvuzela by linking to your favorite post of the week (or month) from YOUR blog!

To the Oxford Dictionary of English, the word vuvuzela.

There are at least three vuvuzelas now, contradicting each other.

To balance the development gap, that is why we are opening universities in the north; that is why we are building more secondary schools in the north; that is why we are extending electricity to all places in the north, so that wherever you stay you can enjoy the same facilities as a Ghanaian,» he stated amid cheers from party supporters and deafening honking of vuvuzelas from all angles as he unleashed venom on the country's biggest opposition party.

Government as You Go,» he said repeatedly as the crowd at the Ramsey Stadium cheered and blared vuvuzelas in response.

Using computer analyses, researchers suggest that airflow through the bony tube would have generated sound with a frequency somewhere between 248 and 746 cycles per second — a range that encompasses the droning tone of the South African vuvuzela, which became notorious during soccer matches held during the 2010 World Cup.

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If you thought that those pesky vuvuzela were the worst thing about the 2010 World Cup, wait until you hear about the carbon emissions estimated to be released during the planet's biggest sporting event.

It faced tough competition from concepts for Christmas trees, toilet - paper holders, and lamps, but Megan Bernstein's design for big, colorful earrings beat them all out, becoming the winner of WoZela's vuvuzela recycling competition.The contest, sponsored by two South African advertising firms, drew more than 100 entries suggesting ways to reuse or recycle the plastic horns that blared throughout this year's World Cup matches.

I'm going to ask the Minister of Food and Agriculture to donate an agricultural tractor to your school,» the president announced, as loud cheers and applause from the crowd, punctuated with the blowing of vuvuzelas, trailed the assurance.

Fans orbit the team with Okapi flags and vuvuzelas, acting as hype men.

Just hope the stewards wont throw me out because I will come armed with my vuvuzela and crazy Arsenal outfit and show the tea sipping fans how to really rally behind the team.

The crazy, vuvuzela - playing fans!

The main story thus far in the World Cup isn't all the wackiness going on with the French and England squads or the vuvuzela's.

As for the hosts, I've loved the vuvuzelas — South Africans love football, and they've shown their passion even after their side (the poorest South African side for years, unfortunately) was eliminated.

There's not much I agree with Sepp Blatter on, but the vuvuzela is a distinctly local feature, and I'm pleased of it.

As early as 6 am people had taken their seats, enjoying their vuvuzelas, gyama, chanting «Mahama paper», 3y3 zu!

Other words that were being considered for Word of the Year included «gleek,» «crowdsourcing,» «vuvuzela,» and «retweet.»

He cycles off to the farming community and helps people lock up their livestock, then uses the vuvuzela — a trumpetlike instrument that fans use at football matches in southern Africa — to drive the lion back into the park.

[The Long Shield] uses a vuvuzela, you know one of these trumpets, to frighten the lion back into the park.

Get out your vuvuzelas and clappers and cheer for your favorite Grain - iator.

A woman blows a vuvuzela loudly in the stands.

Pack a vuvuzela, because we've got Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds in a spy movie where no one hides the fact that they're a spy basically and the action is unexciting all the time; this is Safe House.

Granted, we went a little bit overboard with the vuvuzela (now banned from all future podcasts), but between the horn blowing we managed to cover a...

No - one will forget the party atmospheres that the stadiums created, even if jabulani's and vuvuzela's were the hot topic for debate.

We'll see you there for the World Cup in 2014 — with our Vuvuzelas!.

Break out your vuvuzelas, EA's newest installment of FIFA Soccer has just been released on Nintendo Wii.

Just please, no vuvuzelas.

Blowing a vuvuzela heralding the victory of imagination and ingenuity.

As a meme, «Anthropocene» has as yet little traction in scientific circles beyond geology and environmental science, let alone the wider culture: A Google check on «anthropocene» shows 78,700 references (mainly in geoscience), while by contrast «placebo», a once - esoteric medical term now well - established as a meme, has more than 18 million (and even the freshly coined «vuvuzela» has 3,650,000).

It faced tough competition from concepts for Christmas trees, toilet - paper holders, and lamps, but Megan Bernstein's design for big, colorful earrings beat them all out, becoming the winner of WoZela's vuvuzela

In any event, I will be watching and waiting to see if the buzz comes anywhere close to the level created by the Vuvuzelas at the recent World Cup games.