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bowled

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Lisp: once you know Python, you're not going to be bowled over by things like garbage collection.

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Quick take

(cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.

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adjective

(cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bowled.

adjective

(cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.

Example sentences

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Lisp: once you know Python, you're not going to be bowled over by things like garbage collection.

2

My agent was basically bowled over by 2 of the new home builders in the area.

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Am I the only one bowled over by the irony of this statement given the nature of C#'s genesis?

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Facebook has bowled over the world’s biggest publishers with math and money.

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I was just there to witness it all, and was bowled over by the whole scene.

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I was bowled over by Ebert's fascination with Dark City and I really liked it the first time I watched.

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I've twice been to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam and twice I've been totally bowled over, overwhelmed with emotion, esp.

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Whenever I just copy stuff between computers everyone in my extended family is bowled over.

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For example, no one has officially bowled a perfect candlepin game.

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It was fairly impressive compared to S-100 bus computers running CP/M but the Apple II crowd would have been forgiven for not being bowled over.

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But this clip[0] about Windows updates just happened into one of my feeds today and I was physically bowled over laughing.

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I am still bowled over by the stars, by the moon, any nature, really.

Quote examples

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Seeing the hapless candidate get bowled over by a question that should be a mere formality makes me wonder if the same might be said of Java." Well, actually it has been said by Dijkstra again.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use bowled in a sentence?

Lisp: once you know Python, you're not going to be bowled over by things like garbage collection.

What does bowled mean?

(cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.

What part of speech is bowled?

bowled is commonly used as adjective.