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Meanings of ninepins in English

Portuguese
bolão
Catalan
joc de bitlles

A bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins.

        bolão
        Usage of ninepins in English
        1
        Three Brazilians went down like ninepins; the rest turned and fled precipitately.
        Martin Rattler
        2
        Young men went down before her like ninepins in a bowling alley.
        The Broken Road
        3
        People flew like ninepins as the big ace came barreling through them.
        Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
        4
        The Uhlans were no match for them; they were bowled over like ninepins.
        The Rider in Khaki: A Novel
        5
        They looked in the glare of yellow light like black ninepins.
        The Philanderers
        6
        The box described a swift, true vector and smashed little men like ninepins.
        Night Shift
        7
        So thought not the City Guard, four of whom went down like ninepins.
        Hunted and Harried
        8
        Rohan hurled his opponents right and left like so many ninepins.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction
        9
        They have no ninepins, so they are not trying to make a ten-strike.
        Greenwich Village
        10
        Shall we play at marbles, or balls, or knock down the golden ninepins?
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 / A Magazine...
        11
        She expects men to fall in love with her-andthey topple over like ninepins.
        Far to Seek / A Romance of England and India
        12
        After dinner to ninepins, W. Howe and I against Mr. Creed and the Captain.
        Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 04: March/April 1659-1660
        13
        The cameras on their little platforms went down like ninepins.
        Mr. Standfast
        14
        He tightens the noose, and they fall around like ninepins.
        Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
        15
        Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they.
        Essays — First Series
        16
        You will find no playing at bowls or ninepins here, as you probably imagine.
        The Robbers
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        bolão
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