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Synonyms for ninepins
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : nahyn-pinz |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnaɪnˌpɪnz |
Définition of ninepins
Origin :- 1570s, from nine + pin (n.). From the number of pins to be knocked down.
- As in bowling : noun tenpins
- Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Margaret hunted about in the attic, and found a box of ninepins.
- Extract from : « Margaret Montfort » by Laura E. Richards
- Peter was silently appointed to set up the ninepins for them.
- Extract from : « Folk-lore and Legends: German » by Anonymous
- The Indians fell like ninepins, but there were always more to come on.
- Extract from : « The Watchers of the Plains » by Ridgewell Cullum
- Had any one had the courage to do so, they would have gone down like a row of ninepins.
- Extract from : « The Cock-House at Fellsgarth » by Talbot Baines Reed
- So thought not the City Guard, four of whom went down like ninepins.
- Extract from : « Hunted and Harried » by R.M. Ballantyne
- What a shindy you have made, bowling us all down like ninepins!
- Extract from : « Jacob Faithful » by Captain Frederick Marryat
- You will find no playing at bowls or ninepins here, as you probably imagine.
- Extract from : « The Robbers » by Friedrich Schiller
- Treat men as pawns and ninepins, and you shall suffer as well as they.
- Extract from : « Discourses in America » by Matthew Arnold
- But our fire was too much for them; they fell like a row of ninepins.
- Extract from : « Human Bullets » by Tadayoshi Sakurai
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