Get to know Billiards better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Billiards meaning
- A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
- Any of various games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
Synonyms of Billiards
Using Billiards
- The main meaning on this page is: A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table. | Any of various games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
- Useful related words include: table game.
- In the example corpus, billiards often appears in combinations such as: billiards and, billiards room, and billiards.
Context around Billiards
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Billiards
- In this selection, "billiards" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, playing, cushion, carom, room, table and main stand out and add context to how "billiards" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a carom billiards table main and are playing billiards again. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "billiards" sits close to words such as accountancy, aldis and alisha, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with billiards
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Back in the pub, Gallus are playing billiards again. (9 words)
The home also includes a billiards room, putting green, outdoor shower, and large pool. (14 words)
Further living and entertaining space is found in the billiards room, which has a large, fitted bar and wall-mounted TV. (21 words)
Billiards aces Carlo Biado and Johann Chua, champions in the Vietnam Games last year, joined the ranks of players who failed to give the Philippines a gold medal here as they settled for the bronze in the men’s 9-ball doubles. (42 words)
Games played on a carom billiards table main Straight rail or straight billiards main In straight rail, a player scores a point and may continue shooting each time his cue ball makes contact with both other balls. (37 words)
In research carried out at the University of Amsterdam, a team of physicists has realized that by slightly changing the rules of the billiards game, the number of applications in the real world increases even further. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Games played on a carom billiards table main Straight rail or straight billiards main In straight rail, a player scores a point and may continue shooting each time his cue ball makes contact with both other balls.
In the United States pool and billiards had died out for a bit, but between 1878 and 1956 pool and billiards became very popular.
Man playing billiards with a cue and a woman with mace, from an illustration appearing in Michael Phelan 's 1859 book, The Game of Billiards.
The early croquet-like games eventually led to the development of the carom or carambole billiards category – what most non- Commonwealth and non-US speakers mean by the word "billiards".
Three-cushion billiards main A more elegant solution was three-cushion billiards, which requires a player to make contact with the other two balls on the table and contact three rail cushions in the process.
Back in the pub, Gallus are playing billiards again.
Billiards aces Carlo Biado and Johann Chua, champions in the Vietnam Games last year, joined the ranks of players who failed to give the Philippines a gold medal here as they settled for the bronze in the men’s 9-ball doubles.
Further living and entertaining space is found in the billiards room, which has a large, fitted bar and wall-mounted TV.
Included in the inflatable games and competitive sports available at Bounce Empire are a Viking Axe Throw, 21-foot-high Soccer Darts, King of the Mountains, Air Racers, Human-Sized Billiards and Ultimate Boxing.
Many bars have pool tables, but the places with the best selection of tables would be Broad Street Billiards, The Players Lounge, Fat Alberts, Fast Eddies, and West End.
Takeoff was killed in a shooting incident after attending a private party with his group mate, Quavo, at 810 Billiards and Bowling before the shooting.
Vice Mayor Arth Ryan Palabrica will manage the sports events like Enduro motocross competition, New Face Taekwondo championship, tattoo contest, and tournaments in paintball, dart, billiards, tennis, basketball, volleyball, and chess.
In research carried out at the University of Amsterdam, a team of physicists has realized that by slightly changing the rules of the billiards game, the number of applications in the real world increases even further.
Students play pool at Rack-n-Cue, San Francisco State University’s resident billiards and pool hall, on March 19, 2024.
The home also includes a billiards room, putting green, outdoor shower, and large pool.
This English-inspired manor house features amenities including a billiards room, a koi pond, a pool house and a tennis court.
As a result of this cosmic billiards game, the Tomanowos meteorite entered Earth's atmosphere around 17,000 years ago and landed on an ice cap in Canada.
At bars and restaurants, patrons will now be able to play games like pool and billiards and food can be consumed at the bar.
Eric Goldspiel owns three bars: Divine Bar and Grill and 895 Bar, both in Brooklyn, N.Y.; and El Coqui Bar & Billiards in Queens, N.Y. He said he would likely close two of them permanently.
Lamont tries to do something special for Fred's birthday in the third season and buys him his own billiards table.
Common combinations with billiards
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: