ninepins

IPA: nɪnˈɛpɪnz

Examples of "ninepins" in Sentences

A set of tiny old ninepins with beautiful wormholes in them.
These are fluid times in pop, with barriers between musical genres falling like ninepins.
When Grete's drunken father loses her in a game of ninepins to the local innkeeper, she runs away to pursue Fritz.
He secured a seat in the Commons as one of Sir James Lowther's "ninepins," and speedily won the respect of the House.
Here was no commonplace, no Oakland Estuary, no weary round of throwing newspapers at front doors, delivering ice, and setting up ninepins.
The autumn ramble: the woods, the dog, the gun, the Hudson, the stranger, the "ninepins" company, the flagon, the waking -- the changed scenes.
These two lads started on these trees, and had them falling like ninepins, it was taking the rest of us all our time to keep pace stripping them.
Mattie Ulrich's striking costumes included some that made of a bevy of nurses, escorting maimed soldiers, look like the ninepins that prompted Grete's flight from home.
With the favorites falling like ninepins, the unlikely beneficiary has been Sean Gallagher, a reality TV show star and businessman who was considered a 40 to one outsider when the race started.
I've seldom been to a performance at the Globe where somebody doesn't faint, and at Titus Andronicus a few years back there was a domino effect in the Yard with people going down like ninepins; guessing who would be next was almost as compelling as the cannibalism happening on stage.