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bowling alley
[ boh-ling al-ee ]
noun
- a building or enclosed area containing a number of lanes or alleys for the game of bowling.
- any of these long, narrow wooden lanes or alleys.
bowling alley
noun
- a long narrow wooden lane down which the ball is rolled in tenpin bowling
- a similar lane or alley, usually with raised sides, for playing skittles (ninepins)
- a building having several lanes for tenpin bowling
Word History and Origins
Origin of bowling alley1
Example Sentences
The nearest movie theater and bowling alley are 45 minutes away, in Beckley.
I was at a bowling alley once and a really sleazy guy asked me (a girl) out, instead I told him I had a girlfriend.
Mitt Romney is not the guy who hangs around our local bowling alley gorging on pizza.
They like candidates who can hang at the bowling alley or the barbecue.
You get a nice mansion with backyard, a bowling alley, a chef, your own helicopter, and an impressive pile of nuclear weapons.
The library, the gymnasium, the bowling-alley, opened from the prayer-room.
Well, theres a pool-room on the street above and a bowling-alley across the square, chuckled the waiter.
In the gleam that came from the bowling alley behind me, something showed softly red and green and white against the wooden door.
Jenkins measured the alley with his eyes and figured it to be just about the length of a conventional bowling alley.
The crew had used the cheeses and some bottles from the galley,The day before, to improvise a sort of bowling-alley.
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