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
Previously, he'd attempted to make his garden resemble a bowling green, he says, before recognising that this attitude created something of a "biodiversity desert".
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2022
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
The bowling green is no longer there, but Bowling Green Street is.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2016
He puttered about the flower beds with spade and rake and kept the bowling green clipped close with a keen sickle.
From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle
