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 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 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
Bowling Green Street derives its name from a bowling green which existed not very many years since.
From Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
