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
At Vermont's Republican convention in Montpelier last week, traditions toppled like tenpins.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stage is chockablock with tenpins aloft, batons atwirl, trapeze and low- wire acts, fire eating and belly dancing, pratfalls, cartwheels and unicycling.
From Time Magazine Archive
What I did not expect to see was a giant metal ball blasting into the gymnasium, scattering players like tenpins.
From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman
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