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

A bin next to the pristine bowling green, just a few steps from the prom, is surrounded by a mass of half-eaten food, fish and chip boxes, disposable cutlery and bottles.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2020

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

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

For in those days the garden had been a bowling green.

From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.