[
US
/ˈboʊɫ/
]
[ UK /bˈəʊl/ ]
[ UK /bˈəʊl/ ]
VERB
- roll (a ball)
-
engage in the sport of bowling
My parents like to bowl on Friday nights - hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
NOUN
- a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
- a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
- a concave shape with an open top
- a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
- the quantity contained in a bowl
- a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids
- a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
How To Use bowl In A Sentence
- Divide half the mixture between 4 glass bowls, then sprinkle with a few fresh raspberries and a bit more crushed honeycomb. The Sun
- Whisk the egg in a bowl and heat a little oil in a nonstick pan. Times, Sunday Times
- Just before serving, prepare a few small cheese ravioli and place them in each bowl before you add the soup.
- Kaboom, then home for chow, a few beers and a couple of frames of bowling. CORMORANT
- Three hours packed with a quick-fire century, a couple of bouncers, two-thirds of a hat-trick, a dropped catch, several bowled wickets and innumerable fours and sixers.
- The six tapestries she planted come alive with interwoven threads of color and texture from golden boxleaf honeysuckle, lavender, hebe, leatherleaf sedge, and Bowles' golden sedge bordered by dwarf boxwood.
- Transfer the drained veg to a large bowl. Times, Sunday Times
- A short fellow with a refined bearing, Gavaskar consistently got hundreds and double-hundreds against top-class bowling.
- The cats were then taken out of the room for 15 minutes, and the four bowls were replaced with identical empty ones. Times, Sunday Times
- “No, there ain’t no Bowlong,” said the barmaid, taking up a glasscloth and a drying tumbler and beginning to polish the latter. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll