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 site will see Spain's Field Farm in Weardale moved brick by brick to the open air museum, as well as the recreation of a chip shop, police houses, allotments and a bowling green.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2016
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 nibbled landscape that he denounces as “a bowling green with contours” is beloved by the British public.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2014
Beyond the garden a glimpse was to be caught through the trees of a trim bowling green.
From Audrey by Mary Johnston