croquet
noun
a game played by knocking wooden balls through metal wickets with mallets.
croquets
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present tense formof croquet (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Greenspan calls the dough for croquets — little more than egg whites and nuts — a “misbehaver,” but mine was, strangely, not.
From Washington Post
We sent out free goat cheese croquets with fresh fig jam to every person who came in to eat.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
So the cook followed in Betty's track, and Mr. Gibson had to satisfy his healthy English appetite on badly made omelettes, rissoles, vol-au-vents, croquets, and timbales; never being exactly sure what he was eating.
From Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The guests were not seated, but stood up and enjoyed the croquets, game, salads, ices, and creams.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore
It is customary first to use fat for croquets, rissoles, fritters and other delicate things, and then to take it for fish.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
