bowls

British  

/ bəʊlz /

noun

1. 1. a game played on a bowling green in which a small bowl (the jack) is pitched from a mark and two opponents or opposing teams take turns to roll biased wooden bowls towards it, the object being to finish as near the jack as possible

   2. ( as modifier )

      a bowls tournament

2. skittles or tenpin bowling

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Example Sentences

Her home is full of silver bowls and ribbons in every color.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was a dining room—vast, with a chandelier and moss-covered silver bowls —and in the center, on top of the table built to seat a hundred people, there was a sailing boat.

From Literature

The birds coo and hop as Nigel moves from cage to cage, pouring water into small bowls.

From Literature

Ana’s living room is decorated with black-and-white streamers and balloons, penguin stuffed animals, and bowls of black-and-white candy.

From Literature

My foster parents think I was starving in Cuba, and so they like to take me to this restaurant called Wolfie’s, where we eat enormous pastrami sandwiches and bowls of matzoh ball soup.

From Literature