(n.) An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.
(n.) The act of croqueting.
(v. t.) In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to using the facilities – two pools, a spa, tennis and croquet courts, and of course a beach – members have access to more than 30 guest rooms, from suites to cottages, where the cost of a stay can exceed $1,000 a night.
(2) The swimming pool, beauty salon, spa, tennis courts and croquet court shout aspiration, wealth and success, a version of the American dream.
(3) He has now acquired some of the trappings of the establishment himself, including the Chevening country house where John Prescott once embarrassed himself by being snapped playing croquet.
(4) With its beautiful old trees, astonishing silver collection, croquet lawn and chickens (which you can play on and feed respectively), Dunham Massey represents a quick and total escape from city life.
(5) The secluded lochside setting, with its restored wall garden and hens scuttling across the croquet lawn, is picture-perfect.
(6) Heywood had moved to China in the Nineties, marrying a local woman but remained very much an old-fashioned patriot, taking pride in his Harrow education and playing croquet.
(7) Allsports and JJB have both died in the face of Ashley's relentless discounting and aggressive acquisition of brands, which has included turning the croquet and tennis set's beloved Lillywhites in Piccadilly Circus, London, into a pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap bazaar.
(8) Beneath a particularly sparse offering she wrote : "The pizza in the first pic was alright but I'd have enjoyed more than 1 croquet.
(9) A cheaper option, however, between May and September, is to check in to one of the 11 simple bell-tents (or the single, more sturdy, timber-lined “glamping arc”) that are set up – behind the croquet lawn and mighty copper beech tree – in one of the estate’s mature gardens.
(10) There's also golf, tennis, croquet and a heated outdoor pool.
Lawn
Definition:
(n.) An open space between woods.
(n.) Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
Example Sentences:
(1) After formation of a cell lawn and addition of cytostatics of the arbitrarily selected medicaments vinblastin, bleomycin, cis-DDP, actinomycin D the reaction of the cells on the drugs was judged light-microscopically and electrophysiologically by measuring the transmembrane potential 24 hours after the application of medicaments.
(2) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(3) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(4) One day in 2010 we were out on the lawn when suddenly it was as if a tower block was obscuring our view.
(5) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(6) You will come out on the North Lawn with Speke Hall on your right – a beautiful view whatever the season.
(7) Persons at high risk for infection, such as outdoor workers, campers and hikers, suburbanites with lawns to cut, and pregnant women exposed to potentially infected Ixodes ticks, are clamouring for some means of protection beyond simple behaviour modification and tick avoidance which are known not always to work.
(8) They flew back late Tuesday night ahead of a formal welcome on Wednesday morning with a 19-gun salute on the South Lawn of the White House, the grandest reception for any world leader in Washington this year.
(9) A giant inflatable doll with the face of Shaker Aamer , the last British resident held at Guantánamo who returned to the UK last October after 14 years’ incarceration, was displayed not far from the White House fence and front lawn.
(10) Other hobbies included watching husbands die, remarrying on the Southfork ranch lawn, and being played by a different actor for a season.
(11) Exactly 20 years have passed since the Oslo accords were signed on the White House lawn.
(12) Then she married, had two more children, moved to Hawaii and lead a regular life working in real estate, punctuated by paparazzi camping out on her lawn whenever Polanski made a move.
(13) An alternative method is to replicate patches of different mutant strains (100 per plate) onto Hfr lawns; in this case more than 1,000 different mutants can be mapped in a single experiment in a few days.
(14) Vibrio cholerae cells, infected with the sex factor P, produce discrete, plaque-like clearings when plated on lawns of P(-) cells.
(15) Virginia congressman Gerry Connolly briefly pushed back at Republican suggestions that secret service agents always ought to use lethal force in such situations, saying “the idea we have a shoot out on the White House lawn ought to be a last resort not a first resort”.
(16) Outside, through the window, the sun is shining and a lawn mower slowly traces lines on the training pitch named after Tito Vilanova.
(17) My whole lawn was nothing but Clinton yard signs” during the election, she said.
(18) Spirochete prevalence in ticks did not differ among lawn types or at different distances from the woods.
(19) He would bring back a gondolier's rowlock from Venice; he would haul hollowed logs or curious roots out of the river to lie on the lawn; he would explain the workings of the Japanese deer-scarer or he would arrange single branches of leaves or flowers, Japanese style, the better to admire the colour of the stems, the shape of the leaves, the streaks in the bark.
(20) Serious injuries secondary to lawn darts have not been reported.