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noun

ˈbōl How to pronounce bowl (audio)
Definition of bowlnext
as in stadium
a large usually roofless building for sporting events with tiers of seats for spectators a new bowl for the football team

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verb

1
as in to flow
to move or proceed smoothly and readily bowling along in my spiffy new car

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2
as in to race
to proceed or move quickly bowled through the test and was the first one to hand in the booklet

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Recent Examples of bowl
Noun
In large bowl, beat 1 cup butter and brown sugar till creamy. — ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026 After pureeing, transfer the pumpkin to a fine-mesh strainer lined with cheesecloth or a coffee filter and set it over a bowl. — Martha Stewart, 29 Aug. 2026
Verb
For example, the letter A might be axe-throwing or an art gallery, while B could be bowling or the beach. — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026 Drain onion and add to bowl along with 2 large celery stalks, any leaves reserved, thinly sliced, one 15-oz. — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bowl
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bowl
  1. stadium
  2. flow
  3. race
  4. coliseum
  5. brush
  6. speed
  7. glide
  8. hurry
Noun
  • The chiefs rivalries uniforms will honor arrowhead stadium considering the 4 year window with these rivalry uniforms will be the last 4 years at arrowhead.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The stadium can expand to 3,000, and the Wolverines play under the lights.
    — JOE DAVIDSON, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of stadium
Verb
  • For the traditional Telugu Hindu ceremony, their priest translated Sanskrit to English in real time, and the mandap was designed as a circle to represent how life flows into itself for eternity.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Millions of people across the floodplains of the Indian subcontinent depend on the water that flows downstream.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of flow
Verb
  • Dustin Arnold, were racing as fast as 120 mph in order to get to the scene.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In the span of less than a week this July, surgeons at a Southern California hospital raced to save the lives of two women suffering from alarmingly similar brain hemorrhages.
    — Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of race
Noun
  • Four years earlier, a leaner and healthier Elvis played a much better concert at this same coliseum.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The move to North Main Street brought more Stockyards visitors and cowboys headed to Billy Bob’s Texas or the coliseum rodeos.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 July 2026
Definition of coliseum
Verb
  • Amid this backdrop, cybersecurity companies have skyrocketed in value as businesses recognize the security need and have managed to brush off earlier disruption concerns that rattled the broader software sector this year.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Kusama was called pop, avant-garde, feminist, just to name some of the categories thrown at her, most of which Kusama brushed off as not quite representative of her art.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of brush
Verb
  • Officers said Rodriguez sped out of the lot and fled the scene.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The next day, his rebuild group met, and one of the architects brought up prefabricated housing as an option to speed things along.
    — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of speed
Verb
  • There are lots of brands that have worked to give us beautiful soft mattes that glide onto lids and don’t feel patchy or heavy like their previous counterparts.
    — Elle Turner, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The way Brooks stomped, or glided, or moseyed into the end zone will be forgotten.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of glide
Verb
  • Jeremiah Martin had a quarterback hurry on third down, forcing a throwaway.
    — Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The other officers hurried to the second scene as Hernandez tackled a fleeing Edgar to the ground.
    — Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2026
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“Bowl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bowl. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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