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

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