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 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
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 man with the lamp had reached the back of the house across the bowling green, and a stalwart farmer had caught Betsy Thwaites by the wrist.
From The Revellers by Louis Tracy
