bowls

/ 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

Example Sentences

Dusty mugs and bowls sat on a shelf; otherwise the walls were bare.

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One of her earliest memories of food dates back to her infancy spent in Cameroon, when her mother fed her bowls of dal chawal, or lentils and rice.

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As the clock ran down, their bowls were taken away to the judges’ room.

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Then again, my mother never attempted to feed me, as my mate puts it, bowls of “yellow ooze with pink misery circles in it.”

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They also found human skulls fashioned into soup bowls; lampshades and costumes made from human skin; and mutilated female body parts, among other nightmare fuel.

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