gutter ball

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noun

a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.

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Words nearby gutter ball

guttate, guttatim, guttation, gutted, gutter, gutter ball, gutter fracture, guttering, gutter press, guttersnipe, gutter wound

How to use gutter ball in a sentence

If one of his three strikes came on the 10th and final frame and he was prompted to bowl further to complete the game, he would bowl gutter balls out of frustration.
Can You Count Your Marbles?|Zach Wissner-Gross|June 25, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
All the other frames would consist of nothing but gutter balls.
Can You Count Your Marbles?|Zach Wissner-Gross|June 25, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
All the other frames will consist of nothing but gutter balls.
Can You Bowl Three Strikes?|Zach Wissner-Gross|June 18, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
If one of his three strikes comes on the 10th and final frame and he is prompted to bowl further to complete the game, he will bowl gutter balls out of frustration.
Can You Bowl Three Strikes?|Zach Wissner-Gross|June 18, 2021|FiveThirtyEight

One of the kids had a ball in his hand, and Cuomo took it and tossed it back and forth to an eight year old.
Mario Cuomo, Always Moving Us Toward the Light|Mike Barnicle|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Instead of going for the hole, I hit the ball directly into the water.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
There is only sand, a white ball, and a flag indicating the hole.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
If the ball gets in the hole, the screen shifts to reveal the next hole.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
When the game starts, there is only sand, a white ball, a flag indicating hole 1, and a “0” at the top of the screen.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
A view of the duchess's ball-room, or of the dining-table of the earl, will supersede all occasion for lengthy fiddle-faddle.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
He had not the least idea what wadding was, and his notion of a bullet was a dockyard cannon-ball bigger than his own head.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
On the night of June the 11th a red-hot cannon-ball set fire to one of the barracks which was used as a hospital.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
At two o'clock, the general of the Carnival opens the public ball with the Mugnaia.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills