BILLIARDS in a Sentence
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19 example sentences for BILLIARDS, such as:
1. You never play billiards except with Thurston.
2. You put chalk there when you play billiards, to steady the cue.
3. From the billiard room next door came the sound of balls knocking, of talk and laughter.
4. Then he got up, saying he had half a mind to go over to Klein's hotel and play a game of billiards.
5. Recently I went in for a turn at billiards, and lost two jars of pomade, a china teapot, and a guitar.
2. You put chalk there when you play billiards, to steady the cue.
3. From the billiard room next door came the sound of balls knocking, of talk and laughter.
4. Then he got up, saying he had half a mind to go over to Klein's hotel and play a game of billiards.
5. Recently I went in for a turn at billiards, and lost two jars of pomade, a china teapot, and a guitar.
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Meanings and Examples of BILLIARDS
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billiards
n. any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 The talk was much more desultory than when only the cronies were there, and everybody was a bit bored, for the weather was bad, and there was only billiards, and the pianola to dance to.
2 Some chalk marks over the waistcoat pocket were the only signs of billiards which I could see in one of them.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
Context Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
3 You put chalk there when you play billiards, to steady the cue.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
4 You never play billiards except with Thurston.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
5 Did an opinion chance to be expressed concerning billiards, on that subject too he was at least able to avoid committing a blunder.
6 Recently I went in for a turn at billiards, and lost two jars of pomade, a china teapot, and a guitar.
7 Some of the gentlemen were gone to the stables: the younger ones, together with the younger ladies, were playing billiards in the billiard-room.
8 He was nice in his eating, uncertain in his hours; fond of his child, though affecting to slight it; and idled away the mornings at billiards, which ought to have been devoted to business.
9 Then he got up, saying he had half a mind to go over to Klein's hotel and play a game of billiards.
10 They parleyed in shouts across the still air about a game of billiards to be played in the Adelphi hotel.
11 From the billiard room next door came the sound of balls knocking, of talk and laughter.
12 Their conversation was interrupted by Anna, who had found the men of the party in the billiard room, and returned with them to the terrace.
13 Getting up from the table, Levin walked with Gagin through the lofty room to the billiard room, feeling his arms swing as he walked with a peculiar lightness and ease.
14 Turovtsin was one of the circle drinking in the billiard room, and Stepan Arkadyevitch was talking with Vronsky near the door at the farther corner of the room.
15 The mansion had a ballroom, but it looked like a billiard table compared with the enormous room that covered the entire third floor of Scarlett's house.
Example Sentence:
1 A billiard - table must be perfectly even.