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
A member of public had called the charity after spotting the seal near the bowling green beside the pier, and just across the road from the bright lights of a cinema.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021
The ball fizzed along the turf with a trajectory and precision usually seen on the bowling green – except this was played at defence-splitting speed.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 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
There was an excellent bowling green at the "Green Man," smooth and level as a billiard table.
From Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King by Kingston, Alfred
