Collocations for "bowl"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "bowl" in context.
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bowl
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [large, small] bowl (of)
- a [deep, shallow] bowl (for)
- a [glass, plastic, wooden] bowl
- a [soup, punch, mixing, salad] bowl
- a [fish, goldfish] bowl
- the [lid, rim, edge] of the toilet bowl
- fill up my bowl (with)
- [combine, mix, stir] in a bowl
- [pour, spoon, ladle] (it) into a bowl
- served in a bowl
- a bowl of [candies, fruits, walnuts]
- a bowl of [soup, chili, stew]
- [eat, take, have, order] a bowl of
- would [eat] another bowl (of)
- [smoke, hit] a bowl (of)
- [cleaned, put tobacco in] the bowl of his pipe
- [ate, finished] my entire bowl
- polished off a huge bowl of [pasta, spaghetti]
- [ski, snowboard] in the (back) bowl
- playing in the [pro, championship] bowl
- the teams (playing) in the Super Bowl
- UK: play (lawn) bowls
- are (not) in a bowl game (this year)
- bowl a [perfect game, strike, frame, spare]
- bowling with [your friends, a party]
- bowl in a [competition, league]
- bowl [competitively, for fun, professionally]
- bowl with [control, discipline]
- bowled her over in the [street, hall]
- bowled me over in his [haste, hurry]
- she was bowled over in the [street] (by)
- the [news, surprise, sight] bowled us over
- completely bowled over (by)
- bowled over by the [news, surprise, sight]
'bowl' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
batter
- cereal
- combine
- commercial
- compete
- crumble
- cut
- decent
- dog
- fish
- flake
- flour
- ice cream
- ingredient
- jelly
- lick
- microwave
- mix
- mussel
- nutshell
- olive
- pasta
- peach
- peanut
- pear
- picture
- plum
- porridge
- pour
- punch
- raspberry
- replacement
- rim
- rinse
- ripple
- salad
- shallow
- short
- sieve
- slide
- soaked
- soup
- stew
- sugar
- sweet
- toilet
- trifle
- whisk
- zucchini