tenpins

How to use tenpins in a sentence

• He relentlessly cut them down one after another like tenpins.

  Dave Dawson at Truk | Robert Sydney Bowen

• Ride a horse or a bicycle; play tennis or tenpins, or toss a ball.

  The Science of Being Well | Wallace Delois Wattles

• This alley was laid on a long board table, and the game played with tenpins and small wooden balls.

  School, Church, and Home Games | George O. Draper

• tenpins, ten′pinz, n. a game played in a bowling-alley, the aim being to bowl down ten pins set up at the far end.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) | Various

• Yet the spears from above mowed down the climbing savages like tenpins, while their weapons did little or no damage.

  Nedra | George Barr McCutcheon