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.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BILLIARDS
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.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
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
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
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
5  Did an opinion chance to be expressed concerning billiards, on that subject too he was at least able to avoid committing a blunder.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
6  Recently I went in for a turn at billiards, and lost two jars of pomade, a china teapot, and a guitar.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
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.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42
9  Then he got up, saying he had half a mind to go over to Klein's hotel and play a game of billiards.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In I
10  They parleyed in shouts across the still air about a game of billiards to be played in the Adelphi hotel.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  From the billiard room next door came the sound of balls knocking, of talk and laughter.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 19
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.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 20
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.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 8
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.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 8
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Example Sentence:
1  A billiard - table must be perfectly even.