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How to use billiard in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, numeral

Billiard means a shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom. Example: “The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.”

Examples of billiard by meaning

nounPertaining to the game of billiards.

  • a billiard table; a billiard ball

More sentences with billiard

  • The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.From the entry shoe
  • A different but exactly resembling billiard ball has a numerically different but exactly resembling redness trope.2017, Brian Garrett, What is this Thing Called Metaphysics?, 3rd edition, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 55–56. From the entry trope
  • There was an icehouse and a billiard parlor, a wine room, a lunch and eating counter, gambling saloons and taquerías.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 225. From the entry taquería
  • Let us assume the gas molecule to be a structureless "billiard ball," translating in space and frequently colliding with the neighboring molecules.2015, Ethirajan Rathakrishnan, “High-temperature Flows”, in High Enthalpy Gas Dynamics, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore, →ISBN…. From the entry translate
  • There were a couple of strict house rules: no playing on the billiard table, which we had damaged twice; and no talking in bed.2000, Anthony Bailey, America Lost and Found: An English Boy's Wartime Adventure in the New World. From the entry house rule
  • Private persons and companies possessing, as owners or otherwise, pianos (pianoforti) and billiard tables (bigliardi) for their own use are subject to tax thereon.1941, Trade Promotion Series, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, page 116. From the entry pianoforti
  • Seldom busy, the gardens offer everything from formal lilyponds and billiard table-smooth lawns to joyous bursts of floral colour and the russets, golds and greens of an arboretum.2003, Mike Parker, Paul Whitfield, Wales, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry lilypond
  • Example of sumptuary taxes are those imposed on the production, sale, or consumption of tobacco products, alcoholic drinks, playing cards, billiard tables, cabaret admissions, and many others.1982, Florentino G. Ayson, C. O. Resurreccion, The fundamentals of agrarian reform, page 173. From the entry sumptuary tax
  • The word "Kugel" itself is used for a ball, usually made of hard material like a marble, a billiard or bowling ball and is quite right for a round chocolate.2001 September 8, RMS-MarionS, “German Ferrero Ad”, in alt.fan.james-bond (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Jul 2026. From the entry resignate

Meaning of billiard

  1. noun A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
  2. noun Pertaining to the game of billiards.
  3. noun A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.

Full definition of billiard

Questions about billiard in a sentence

How do you use billiard in a sentence?
Billiard is used as a noun and numeral. For example: “The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.”
What is a short sentence with billiard?
“a billiard table; a billiard ball”
What does billiard mean?
Billiard means a shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.

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