bowling green
Example Sentences
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Fillongley Provincial Park was an early-20th-century private estate, whose former bowling green is now a wildflower meadow ringed by imported deciduous trees.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023
The passenger train pulls away from the station, picking up speed as it passes a busy bowling green and people relaxing on deckchairs.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2019
When Dr. Slop offers witless barbs, Toby gently submits, wishing no harm on anyone, desiring only to potter about his bowling green, or to sit soothing a brother’s distress.
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2016
The most eccentric of Glasheen's quirks is his insistence on maintaining a large – and largely brown – bowling green, which he cuts with a petrol-powered mower.
From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2013
A fine hard road, as level as a bowling green, carries you within an hour to Pf�tter--the post town between Straubing and Ratisbon-- and almost twice that distance brings you to the latter place.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
