ninepins

Example Sentences

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A football fan stuck in hours of tailbacks during Storm Bram has described seeing at least 10 overturned lorries "scattered like ninepins" on the M74.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

"People went down like ninepins," Jacques, who runs Le Queenie restaurant on the seafront, told France Info radio.

From Reuters • Jul. 14, 2016

An attempted kiss can trip them up as effectively as any banana peel, while gentle caresses somehow turn into body slams that knock over their recipients like ninepins.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2012

In that time they had the form team of the Premiership flapping at thin air, scattering like ninepins at the tackle area and pedalling backwards at the set-piece.

From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2010

“Haunted?” said I. “Yes, indeed. There’s an old story says there are little men up here who play ninepins right down in that gorge in the twilight.”

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George