bowling green

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For Grimsby boss Artell, a "bowling green" surface much closer in quality to the one his side stunned Manchester United on in the League Cup earlier this season would also have been preferable.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

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 pitch that night was soaked and rutted but Modric passed the ball as though he was playing on a bowling green.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2018

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

Captain Dawe had gone to look in at the bowling green, where some of the royal officers were playing bowls.

From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Bevan, Tom