What is "bowled out"

Usage examples of "bowled out".

I was fairly taken aback at this, while Elspeth looked charmingly bewildered, but nothing must do but he bore us off to where the liquor was, and demanded of me, action by action, a description of how I'd bowled out the mighty three.

Valerie was a nervous driver but underneath the anxiety there was pleasure and she loved it when her instructor bowled out of the little town and went some way into the fells.

She could distinguish the bleached white skeletons of the giant grazers that had been bowled out of the way of this minor leviathan until it had come to a grinding halt.

The engine responded lustily, but as Luis bowled out of the square the officer, in a commandeered Mercedes, was already after him.

You can't, I suppose, win them all, but in Joby's case, it seemed to me, we had been bowled out by the umpire.

I shall have to discover what tale he's fobbed my wife off with, or I shall be bowled out.

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