Example Sentences

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Beaten biscuits are biscuits horribly beaten before they are cooked and may be used as golf-balls afterward.''

From Time Magazine Archive

The little muddy stream in which so many erring golf-balls lie low is up and out for a ramble over its banks.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.

The room was usually in a state of extreme disorder—dust everywhere, books and papers lying about in confusion, hats, sticks, pipes, photographs and golf-balls mingling in the chaos.

From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

"Oh, I think it might occur to the same ingenious mind that discovered that a cloisonné vase would hold golf-balls," smiled Mrs. Carraway.

From The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life by Bangs, John Kendrick

A few straggling patients were knocking prescribed golf-balls about the links, and a scattering of nurses were hurrying in with their wheel-chairs.

From Leerie by Sawyer, Ruth