How To Use Pinball In A Sentence
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And while you play pinball you have another game playing together.
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The global pop art movement, to be seen anywhere from car bonnets to pinball machines, could serve as a subversive international language of political protest.
Times, Sunday Times
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We strolled around through the flashing, neon lights and loud pinball machines.
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Jared and Jake where in an intense game of pool while Mike was playing with the pinball machine when I walked in.
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The game is part pinball, part fast-moving Sonic-esque adventure in which the pinballs can be made to jump to collect gold coins.
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When you take a double dose of allergy medicine and the only thing in your stomach is a big slosh of espresso, you will end up bouncing around like a pinball while singing the theme song to The Brady Bunch.
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My pinball skills were no longer celebrated, I was a has-been, a thing of the ancient past.
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Pachinko is a vertical pinball game where one feeds little steel balls into the top of the machine, and tries to manipulate their passage down the machine by twiddling a knob, in order to win… more balls.
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We never ate at Monk's, but we did hang out at the same 7-11 pinball machine corner ever day.
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The cars never see the inside of a garage, because you wouldn't notice them there and because the garage is full of archaic games and pinball machines.
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Backup people and machinery complemented the operation which sometimes seemed to look like the ultimate coruscating pinball machine.
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So you want to make Washington fans, sports media members and talk-radio callers spend two weeks acting like Brandon Banks stuck inside a pinball machine while freebasing 5-Hour Energy?
Shanahan's decision to bench McNabbed gets panned
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They vandalized the arcade and 40 pinball machines and injured six security personnel guarding the arcade.
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Maybe you observe that your neighborhood laundromat is overcrowded, that there’s often lots of bored people waiting for a free machine, and you get it in your head that the area could use another one — maybe one with pinball machines or movies playing.
Two Kinds of Innovation
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Give me a dark back alley compared with being a pinball in the gallery of the desperate.
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As the syllables of Apatow's name sift through her mellifluous vocal chords, my pinball brain starts to tilt: You, Catherine Deneuve, are a Judd Apatow fan?
Canada.com Top Stories
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Our minds don't work in a straight line, but rather more like a pinball machine, bouncing ideas off one another helter-skelter.
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The in-game physics is good, and the ball responds well to a swift flick of the flipper, or you can trap it in the corner (a trick favoured by pinball wizards from Soho to Brighton).
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He shouted at her over the beeps and dings of pinball machines and video games, pointing toward the back.
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Bowling (your choice of tenpins or traditional New England-style candlepins), bumper cars and arcade games, pinball and Bingo are just a few of the possibilities.
Undefined
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It will not be swayed if you convert the kitchen into a utility room and will be unimpressed if you put a pinball machine in the bathroom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Throughout the evening, we watched and laughed along as the kids played H-O-R-S-E, pinball, foosball and pingpong.
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I'm tempted to think that the court was designed by a distant relative of the man who invented the pinball machine.
Times, Sunday Times
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I will come back repeatedly and guzzle dranks forever if you keep that pinball!
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It had a renowned cantine, where we were served in courses by Portuguese women, but most of us preferred the café across the street, which was equipped with pinball machines and a jukebox from which issued a steady diet of French pop interspersed with the Rolling Stones and the Rubettes.
Dreaming in French
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Kina had skied big lines in the Tetons for years; on many of them, if you failed to make the right turn at the right time, you would fall for a thousand feet, pinballing between the rocky walls of the couloir until you ragdolled out the bottom.
Christian Beckwith: Greening the Barrio, Part 6
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With the ball pinballing amongst a forest of legs on the edge of the penalty box it fell to Bingham who dispatched a half volley low into the net.
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Bumper is a very playable pinball game where you control the flippers on a virtual pinball machine.
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The hero of Ken Loach's new film is Liam, a lairy young lad a few weeks shy of his 16th birthday, caught with his friend Pinball selling contraband fags in a pub, without reference to HM customs and excise.
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But Fable Coin Golf is a miniature triumph, brilliantly mixing the dynamics of pinball and shove ha'penny with cunningly compelling results.
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I doubt that it would have gotten as much play time if it was some run-of-the-mill pinball machine with a generic theme.
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There's plenty to see and do in Hurricane, it's a pinball freak's dream come true.
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Gaspard's also boasts an original pre-impressionist juke box, complete with scratchy Sartrean torch songs by Greco and Piaf, and a pinball machine whose left flipper has been bust since Stevenson's day.
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Sammy is famous for making pachinko machines, which are apparently a cross between a slot machine and pinball.
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Once we had this cool old pinball machine that some old guy named Clancy left.
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Other residents lost a collection of old board games, pinball machines, vintage clothes and old books.
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Still others might prefer the challenge of a video or pinball game as an entertaining diversion.
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If Gina wouldn't go there was always someone else willing to hang out and watch me play pinball with me instead of going home.
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She walked through Times Square with Miles and he made her stop to admire a pimpmobile parked in a towaway zone outside a topless pinball parlor.
Underworld
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I remember in the bad old days when Rock Operas were about the War Of The Worlds, or a messianic cult based on a sensorily deprived pinball player.
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I'd watch him moving around the bar in his restless way and note how physically he threw himself at the pinball machine.
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
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There's an irony here: Bushnell's first great brainchild, Pong, revolutionized coin-op gaming partly because a video screen allows far more gaming possibilities than a pinball table.
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Give me a dark back alley compared with being a pinball in the gallery of the desperate.
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I spotted a pinball machine and decided to play.
The Sun
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Typically, Harrington took his punishment on the chin but was struggling to maintain this sort of impressive equilibrium when he hooked his drive into woods off the 2nd tee yesterday and then played pinball with the same tree twice to eventually run up a nine, just one shot short of the Masters "eejit" record on this par five.
The Guardian World News
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In consequence, he was entirely too occupied with his own difficulties to notice the gossamer shape poking its head above the gunwales of the ersatz pirate ship suspended above the gambling floor to the left of the pinball arcade.
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She walked through Times Square with Miles and he made her stop to admire a pimpmobile parked in a towaway zone outside a topless pinball parlor.
Underworld
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The Stern company has been making pinball machines in Illinois since before you were around, sonny, and they still do today.
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There must be bad karma zinging around the world like a pinball hitting bumpers.
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Competing against a friend to see who can wrack up the highest score is what makes pinball fun.
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His first idea was to import pinball machines from Britain but only three sold for a profit.
Times, Sunday Times
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We know that the world will not end like a pinball machine on tilt.
Christianity Today
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in Britain they call a pinball machine a pin table
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At 21 Shane Warne thought a flipper was pinball jargon.
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Fine purveyors of vibrating massage chairs and miniature plastic pinball tables, the liquidation is being handled by Gordon Brothers Retail Partners.
Sharper Image Liquidating All Stores - The Consumerist
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If you scooted them all a few inches or so this way, you could fit both a pinball machine and a jukebox along that wall.
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I yelled while trying to score something on the stupid pinball machine.
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Give me a dark back alley compared with being a pinball in the gallery of the desperate.
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And pachinko is a national obsession, the parlours offering gaudy arrays of noisy pinball machines where many Japanese contentedly gamble the hours away.
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But Fable Coin Golf is a miniature triumph, brilliantly mixing the dynamics of pinball and shove ha'penny with cunningly compelling results.
The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far) – part one
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What's more, he keeps on bringing up some stupid pinball game on the computer so that I can't see the map properly.
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As you enter the interior walkway, you are greeted by vintage arcade games, including pinball machines.
The Sun
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There are also stuffed toys and a Twilight Zone pinball machine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much of the pleasure of real pinball comes from the physical interaction with a big, mechanical device and heavy ball bearings.
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Mahela Jayawardene and Ian Bell have both produced a series of scintillating innings, the former in the limited overs game, Bell in Tests, when their combination of Gene Kelly footwork, Pinball-Wizard supple wrists and gorgeous timing have given us a glimpse of an age before athleticism, doggedness and beefy bats predominated.
VVS Laxman is the latest standard bearer for the Golden Age
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This is also a good movie because your parents can go out to the lobby, play pinball and then come back without losing the plot.
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Here's a HOWTO for converting a pinball machine's light-up playfield into an electrified coffee-table; the recipe calls for a beat-up playfield from a nonfunctional pinball machine, which is cool, since it avoids the guilt associated with decommissioning a glorious old pinball machine.
Boing Boing
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Current items on display include crude wooden table hockey games, resembling pinball, from the 1940s; playing cards from Turkey, Hungary and China and the classic mah-jongg.
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The mechanics, look and gameplay of pinball are pretty limited.
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Earlier this month Sega said it was planning to merge with Sammy Corporation, a maker of pinball gaming machines and software.
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With six floors it covers everything from pinball machines to video games.
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The machine resembles a vertical pinball box without the flippers to control the dropping of the ball from top to bottom - the only control is the powerflicker, with which you can propel the balls faster or slower into the box.
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Thank goodness for racehorses, fascinating clockwork driven costumed "automata" figures, an antique "wheel of fortune," Ms. Pacman and a pinball machine I designed for him with the names, locations and voices from the many television shows he produced.
Candy Spelling: Missing My Husband on Father's Day
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As a spectator it feels like being flung about in a capricious pinball machine: raucous and dizzying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Games such as billiards, bowling, golf and pinball are all derived from marbles, enthusiasts say, though such claims are probably impossible to verify.
Now No One Plays for Keeps
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What is the difference between playing pinball games and video games, snowboarding and surfing, or reading cyberpunk vs. traditional science fiction?
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For now, to lighten my mood up a little, tell me your favorite arcade games (not arcade games transferred to consoles, but real coin-op games, including pinball).
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A smiling attendant directed participants towards one of four control stations, from which each directed one of the four giant flippers in the huge pinball machine.
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It was like being in a pinball machine!
Times, Sunday Times
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A quick tour of the camp turned up more cute boys than we could count, and a pinball machine in the game room.
