bowling lane

Example Sentences

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Something mysterious awaits Kevin Mills at the far end of the bowling lane, down there in the shadows.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

VR works for me like bumpers on a bowling lane.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2022

To borrow imagery from a less literary sport, you feel that this novel’s bowling lane has bumper rails.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2020

Bush falling to his knees on a bowling lane; plus the Mixed-Up Politician “magnetic poetry” set — 200 little magnetic words and phrases like “a thousand points of light,” “sexual relations” and “stops here.”

From Washington Post • May 25, 2016

Building a major city on a low-lying swamp in a hurricane corridor is about as intelligent as building a house of cards on a bowling lane.

From Time Magazine Archive