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UK
/nˈaɪnpɪnz/
]
NOUN
- a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
How To Use ninepins In A Sentence
- These two lads started on these trees, and had them falling like ninepins, it was taking the rest of us all our time to keep pace stripping them. Work Camp 934 L
- Orders for games included 48 chessboards and chessmen, 12 sets of fox and geese, 6 sets of jackstraws, 9 boxes of ninepins, and 3 sets of German tactics.
- I doubt we'll get any rain out of it, but I like to listen to Rip Van Winkle and the boys playing ninepins all the same.
- Near one end of the lawn were twelve old - fashioned knights playing at ninepins.
- With the favorites falling like ninepins, the unlikely beneficiary has been Sean Gallagher, a reality TV show star and businessman who was considered a 40 to one outsider when the race started. Niall O'Dowd: The Irish Presidential Race Becomes a Gripping Soap Opera
- May I be thrown amidst all the devils of hell, even as a great bowl cast athwart at a set of ninepins, or cannon-ball shot among a battalion of foot, in case so many times I do not boult my future wife the first night of our marriage! Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- Here was no commonplace, no Oakland Estuary, no weary round of throwing newspapers at front doors, delivering ice, and setting up ninepins. Chapter 6
- The great wall of China's nothing but a line of ninepins to the Chugach and St. Elias wall. The Rim of the Desert
- Mattie Ulrich's striking costumes included some that made of a bevy of nurses, escorting maimed soldiers, look like the ninepins that prompted Grete's flight from home. Ringing Down From the Hudson Valley
- No matter how cunningly Cat deployed his lifeless tin army, as soon as Roger's soldiers began to march, Cat's men fell over like ninepins. CHARMED LIFE
