Sentence examples for English billiards from inspiring English sources
noun
A hybrid form of carom and pocket billiards played on a billiard table, for two players or teams.
The game of English billiards is most popular in Britain and the former empire countries.
Snooker is played on the same table and with the same size balls used for English billiards.
Pockets on the pocket billiards table are wider than those on the English billiards and snooker tables.
The world governing body of English billiards and of the English form of snooker is the Billiards and Snooker Control Council.
Snooker, popular billiards game of British origin, played on a table similar in size and markings to that used in English billiards.
The other principal games are played on tables that have six pockets, one at each corner and one in each of the long sides; these games include English billiards, played with three balls; snooker, played with 21 balls and a cue ball; and pocket billiards, or pool, played with 15 balls and a cue ball.
Meanwhile, Matthew Todd Miller, a white American who traveled to North Korea in 2014 with a plan to get arrested and renounce his U.S. citizenship, recounted a relatively cushy stay in a guest house, where he passed the time playing billiards with his English translator.
Like the classic game, spinning faster and hitting corners puts a little English on it, as they say in billiards.
The game is sometimes incorrectly referred to as one-cushion or one-cushion billiards, which is the direct translation of its name into English from various other languages such as Spanish ("una banda") and German ("einband").
Compare pocket billiards; pyramids.
Plays billiards, bridge, and reads.
