How To Use ninepin In A Sentence
- Maurice Mair seemed to spin like a teetotum and pitch upon his face like a ninepin. The Complete Father Brown
- Our two sport disciplines, tenpin and ninepin, also have their own business structures.
- Certain of the men have huge dilly-bags made of strips of lawyer-cane, and shaped like a ninepin with a funnel for a head. Tropic Days
- The old gentleman is merely shaken and has his internal feathers beaten up, the cushion is restored to its usual place beside him, and the old lady, perhaps with her cap adjusted and perhaps not, is planted in her chair again, ready to be bowled down like a ninepin. Bleak House
- Near one end of the lawn were twelve old - fashioned knights playing at ninepins.
- I've seldom been to a performance at the Globe where somebody doesn't faint, and at Titus Andronicus a few years back there was a domino effect in the Yard with people going down like ninepins; guessing who would be next was almost as compelling as the cannibalism happening on stage. How to survive six hours of Henry IV at the Globe
- 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.
- When Grete's drunken father loses her in a game of ninepins to the local innkeeper, she runs away to pursue Fritz. Ringing Down From the Hudson Valley
- 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.
- These are fluid times in pop, with barriers between musical genres falling like ninepins. Rizzle Kicks; Alex Clare – review