bowling alley
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.
Origin of bowling alley
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How to use bowling alley in a sentence
While the music venue, bar, and bowling alley Brooklyn Bowl — and its locations in Nashville, Las Vegas, and, yes, Brooklyn — remain closed, the team has kept entertainment alive through the pandemic via concert live streams.
America’s Independent Bowling Alleys Might Not Make It Through the Pandemic | Emma Orlow | January 15, 2021 | EaterFor young people, and for people who can’t or don’t want to spend a lot of money, these bowling alleys are rare all-age-friendly spaces that foster fun without requiring visitors to spend a lot.
America’s Independent Bowling Alleys Might Not Make It Through the Pandemic | Emma Orlow | January 15, 2021 | EaterWe serve a menu by Blue Ribbon, which isn’t your typical bowling alley food.
America’s Independent Bowling Alleys Might Not Make It Through the Pandemic | Emma Orlow | January 15, 2021 | EaterJoseph, 59, lived in an apartment that backed up to the parking lot of an abandoned bowling alley in Cedar Rapids, 55 miles southeast of Waterloo.
As COVID-19 Ravaged This Iowa City, Officials Discovered Meatpacking Executives Were the Ones in Charge | by Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung | December 21, 2020 | ProPublicaThe bowling alley was the metaphor more than the real place, I think, in his essay.
Why the Left Had to Steal the Right’s Dark-Money Playbook (Bonus Episode) | Sudhir Venkatesh | October 31, 2020 | Freakonomics
The nearest movie theater and bowling alley are 45 minutes away, in Beckley.
‘Oxyana’ Documentary at Tribeca Exposes the OxyContin Epidemic | Marlow Stern | April 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI was at a bowling alley once and a really sleazy guy asked me (a girl) out, instead I told him I had a girlfriend.
I Had a Fake Girlfriend, Too! In Defense of Manti Te’o | The Daily Beast | January 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMitt Romney is not the guy who hangs around our local bowling alley gorging on pizza.
How Mitt Romney’s Success With Wall Street Could Sink Him | Matt Latimer | June 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThey 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.
A Singular Life | Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsWell, theres a pool-room on the street above and a bowling-alley across the square, chuckled the waiter.
Left Half Harmon | Ralph Henry BarbourIn the gleam that came from the bowling alley behind me, something showed softly red and green and white against the wooden door.
Greenwich Village | Anna Alice ChapinJenkins measured the alley with his eyes and figured it to be just about the length of a conventional bowling alley.
Castle of Terror | E.J. ListonThe crew had used the cheeses and some bottles from the galley,The day before, to improvise a sort of bowling-alley.
Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for bowling alley
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
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