noun
Etymology
Origin of tenpins
Vocabulary lists containing tenpins
Example Sentences
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Logan Brittain, 49, was undecided until he saw Booker speak last week amid the bowling lanes and tenpins at Adel’s Family Fun Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2019
"Every time the Varsity boys made a catch-as-catch-can play, the A&M College boys went to the dust like so many tenpins being knocked down," the Austin Statesman wrote.
From Newsweek ● Nov. 23, 2011
The Londoner was heartened by a two-day lull after a moonlit night of good hunting in which fighter pilots knocked down the Things "like tenpins."
From Time Magazine Archive
Artillery bowled down the valley at 9 a.m., like a giant Rip van Winkle game of tenpins.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ball and tenpins were made of a light plastic, so as not to dent up the furniture.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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