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 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

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

It was on a summer evening; and we were all on the bowling green, and her Grace was within doors, not to be disturbed.

From By What Authority? by Benson, Robert Hugh