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
The pitch that night was soaked and rutted but Modric passed the ball as though he was playing on a bowling green.
From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2018
The bowling green is no longer there, but Bowling Green Street is.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2016
Long tables were placed on the bowling green, and spread with oat bread, butter, radishes, and “morocco,” a kind of strong beer, for which the Hall was famed.
From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel
