1.   As she packed away her mallet, putting the croquet balls in a canvas bag, Mrs. Sun had a final thought.

2.   Before the race, sailors slept on the grass, lingered over a game of cards and knocked colored croquet balls through rounded metal arches.

3.   A few of the original investors in Sonoma-Cutrer, the prominent California winery, probably wish they had taken their profits in old croquet balls.

4.   From the balcony of his apartment, he could hear the gentle knock of croquet balls as retirees played below.

5.   Spring announced its arrival by crocuses and croquet balls thrusting upward through gray melting snow.

6.   The red croquet ball zipped across the field, swift and straight as a cannonball, stopped only by a wall at the perimeter.