Nobody cared if I joined the candlepin bowling team.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoopi Shoopi Donna] Reference

But that elixir-sounding colloquialism is on the wane, alas, like candlepin bowling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annoying and pretentious terms.] Reference

Meanwhile, the young-person's AA meeting held on campus draws more than 200 people each Monday for companionship, confessions, and candlepin bowling.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Drinks for Them] Reference

Sacco's Bowl-Haven, owned by a founding family of candlepin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference

Nope ... it's not a candlepin room, it's all candlepin bowling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

This is one of my most favorite candlepin bowling joints around!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

I walked in, looked around and thought, "how quaint, they have a candlepin room.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

Oh, I wanted to ask you: do you want to go candlepin bowling with me and Harrison Ford?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

Although a championship candlepin bowler, Snow never tried 10-pin until after becoming blind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naples Daily News Stories] Reference

We had REALLY wanted to do 10 pin but hey we figured the candlepin was better then just going home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

We had never tried candlepin bowling (we're not from the area) and it was the perfect place to learn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

Also different - to traditionalists, anyway - is Bowl-O-Rama's candlepin game, a regional phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Snow began bowling competitively in South Portland, Maine, in his 30's and won many a candlepin trophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naples Daily News Stories] Reference

Safe to say that I now am a complete convert and will take candlepin bowling to regular bowling any day!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

Flatbreads saved an old candlepin bowling center from the dustbin of history, and they made some renovations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

However, tonight I discovered the one gloriously fun thing that California will never have: candlepin bowling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

I'm not usually a candlepin kind of girl, but a night here can definitely be fun in the company of good friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

Aesthetics aside, candlepin bowling was really fun and served as a great way to get the kids moving on a cold winter day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston Mamas] Reference

It's a fun house to bowl in, and it's hard to throw a strike in candlepin bowling, but it's especially hard to do it here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

Nearly three-quarters of New Hampshire bowling alleys are candlepin and most of the Seacoast's 10-pin lanes are long gone.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Once you accept that, maybe we can have a conversation about cookies or how awesome 10-pin bowling is compared to candlepin.    From Wordnik.com.  [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference

I've just recently moved here from Ohio and had never heard of candlepin bowling until my Boston friends invited me out to Sacco's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

I grew up in NY and was only used to tenpin until I moved up here and was schooled in the magically confusing ways of candlepin bowling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

My belly was full of delicious flatbread pizza and locally-brewed beers; my friends stood ready to cheer on my victory at the candlepin lanes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

Not only did I discover I love candlepin bowling MORE than "normal" bowling, I really dig the old school vibe that Sacco's really strives to keep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

Earlier this week, however, I broke my (inadvertent) non-attendance streak with a group of friends and was reminded of how fun candlepin bowling is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston Mamas] Reference

On a recent Saturday, I took my 4-year-old boy, Beckett, to the venerable candlepin bowling alley in Davis Square, and it was as if we had traveled back in time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference

But that's not likely to happen, even though the loss of Jamaica Plain's Milky Way lanes and the risk of losing Sacco's seems to have revived candlepin for a younger generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference

While the candlepin bowling will be missed, Bella Luna's gaining a patio and a bigger kitchen, and the Milky Way will remain a site for a plentiful variety of live music and DJs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com] Reference

In that long furor, few paid attention to the other candlepin alley a mile away, a barely known gem whose fate is far more tenuous than Bowl-Haven's, threatened by the Green Line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference

They've got candlepin bowling going on, complete with its little balls and funny-looking pins (none of that big-ball stuff ESPN shows on Sunday afternoons when they need something to compete with the NFL or NASCAR).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

Have a look here for my post on New England’s bowling game, candlepin bowling, on my New England Travels blog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Now, compared to Barack Obama’s radical-chic comrades, Bill ’n’ Hill look like refugees from the local Tuesday-night candlepin-bowling league.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary's New Conservative Friends] Reference

Max: Lol, I had to look up candlepin bowling (the closest Chicago gets to variation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pointlessbanter.net] Reference

Cute, super old school candlepin bowling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference

I'm from Florida where candlepin is non-existant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA] Reference