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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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Uso de ninepins em inglês
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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
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You will find no playing at bowls or ninepins here, as you probably imagine.
The Robbers
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