: any of several games in which balls are rolled (as on a green or down an alley) at an object or group of objects
Examples of bowling in a Sentence
She watches bowling on TV.
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Maybe ‘Bazball’ can learn a thing or two from this old-fashioned bowling relic.
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Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Most notably, the food hall will occupy the historic Miramar Theatre in San Clemente, inside a circa-1938 structure formerly the space of a movie theater and bowling alley.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 7 Jan. 2026
The director points to a mid-film scene in a bowling alley, where Marty and his friend Wally (Tyler Okonma, aka Tyler, the Creator) hustle a small-town crew, as an example of its importance.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
When the production had to travel upstate to shoot in a bowling alley, for example, Fisk also built the set for the gas station scene there in order to avoid wasting any time.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2026
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Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Most notably, the food hall will occupy the historic Miramar Theatre in San Clemente, inside a circa-1938 structure formerly the space of a movie theater and bowling alley.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 7 Jan. 2026
The director points to a mid-film scene in a bowling alley, where Marty and his friend Wally (Tyler Okonma, aka Tyler, the Creator) hustle a small-town crew, as an example of its importance.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
When the production had to travel upstate to shoot in a bowling alley, for example, Fisk also built the set for the gas station scene there in order to avoid wasting any time.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for bowling
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“Bowling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bowling. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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bowling
noun
bowl·ing
ˈbō-liŋ 
1
: a game played by rolling balls so as to knock down pins set up at the far end of an alley
2
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