(1) Trees were going down like ninepins in the strong wind.

(2) Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs.

(3) Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs, flailing hooves and broken lances.

(4) They all go down like ninepins one after the other.

(5) There was a time when Liverpool players never seemed to get injured, but now they are going down like ninepins.

(6) It's just three weeks into the season and players are dropping like ninepins.

(7) There's a lot of flu about and people are going down like ninepins.

(8) It was rumored that Henry Hudson, the great explorer, and his crew played ninepins in the mountains every twenty years.

(9) Near one end of the lawn were twelve old - fashioned knights playing at ninepins.

(10) Getty Images ONCE they started falling, the totems toppled like ninepins this week.

(11) There's a lot of flu about people are going down like ninepins.