ninepins

Example Sentences

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Melanie wasn’t sure they ought to use up one of Marshall’s tenpins; but April pointed out that there was nothing wrong with the game of ninepins.

From Literature

Her sleek looks, and ability to flirt and make men laugh, saw them fall like ninepins at her high-heeled feet.

From The Guardian

Records tumbled like ninepins as cinemas bruised by 2014's lacklustre takings got the perfect pick-me-up: namely, one must-see blockbuster after another.

From BBC

“Haunted?” said I. “Yes, indeed. There’s an old story says there are little men up here who play ninepins right down in that gorge in the twilight.”

From Literature

The resignation had echoes of the disaster that was John Major's "back to basics" policy, which saw ministers and Tory MPs falling like ninepins as their private lives were exposed.

From The Guardian