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
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 most eccentric of Glasheen's quirks is his insistence on maintaining a large – and largely brown – bowling green, which he cuts with a petrol-powered mower.
From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2013
They were to be imparted, to begin with, on the smooth sward of the bowling green.
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by Senior, William
