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
The bowling green is no longer there, but Bowling Green Street is.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 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
He puttered about the flower beds with spade and rake and kept the bowling green clipped close with a keen sickle.
From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle
