Sentence examples for Yule from inspiring English sources

For instance, both Orthodox Christians and Muslims burn a Yule log about the time of the winter solstice.

The earlier term Yule may have derived from the Germanic jōl or the Anglo-Saxon geōl, which referred to the feast of the winter solstice.

The popular fire festival dates back to the 1880s and celebrates the Shetlands Islands' Viking heritage as well as the end of the Yule period.

Every year since 1966, the giant straw Yule goat of Gävle has faced arsonists and vandals intent on its destruction.

And then, of course, there's the renowned Up-Helly-Aa festival, which celebrates the end of the Yule period, Helly probably derived from the Old Norse helgr, for holiday.

The straw statue was the brainwave of Stig Gavlen, a local advertising consultant who thought a giant version of the traditional Swedish yule time goat would be a good way to draw crowds to Gävle, a small port city on the Scandinavian country's east coast.

In 1932 a seven-piece Colorado-Yule marble sarcophagus, constructed at a cost of $48,000, was positioned above the Unknown Soldier's grave.

January is the cruellest month – its iron post-Yule grey far from mitigated by the spirit-shrivelling prospect of yet again filling out that self-assessment tax return.

WIZARD ROCK Saturday is the Bell House's annual Yule Ball, hosted by Harry and the Potters.

As a result, despite a career that dwindled and an insalubrious personal life, Mr Rooney retained a place in the affections of the American public, as they did in his, throughout his lifetime.He was born Joseph Yule Jr in Brooklyn in 1920, the son of Joe Yule and Nell Carter, two Vaudeville performers who divorced when he was seven.

Cale was replaced by Doug Yule in 1968, after the release of White Light/ White Heat an album of extraordinary proto-punk ferocity.