1. They all go down like ninepins one after the other.

2. There's a lot of flu about people are going down like ninepins.

3. Getty Images ONCE they started falling, the totems toppled like ninepins this week.

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

5. 28 Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs.

6. 11 It was rumored that Henry Hudson, the great explorer,(www.Sentencedict.com) and his crew played ninepins in the mountains every twenty years.