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

Example sentences :

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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