dozen

[ˈdʌzn]

Definition:
1. The cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one.
2. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units.

Use 'dozen' in a sentence:

1. There are several dozen Indian pueblos near Santa Fe.
2. He sat behind a table on which were half a dozen files.
3. Packages arrived by the dozen from America.
4. The mayor's handpicked task force has now begun prosecuting a dozen city officials.
5. There was a big group of a dozen people at the table next to theirs.
6. The committee have tried dozens of different ways to smoke him out.
7. Ask yourself a dozen questions and answer them.
8. The elephant destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people.
9. They arrived in dozens.
10. The project has gone through nearly a dozen years of planning.
11. He said there were dozens of economic plans in the works.
12. He had two dozen oysters and enjoyed every one of them.
13. Give me a dozen, please.
14. Traffic from Jordan to Iraq is down to a dozen loaded trucks a day, compared with a high of 200 a day.
15. The room was well lighted by a dozen windows.
16. You can't get through a show without seeing maybe a dozen different commercials.
17. Have you ever had someone try to explain something to you a dozen times with no luck?
18. Several dozen councillors walked out of the meeting in protest.
19. A dozen inmates have absconded from the jail in the past year.
20. She reeled off the titles of a dozen or so of the novels.
21. Her face is on the cover of a dozen or more magazines.
22. There was only space for a half-dozen tables.
23. She loaded me down with around a dozen cassettes.
24. Half a dozen sailors jumped him.
25. He ordered a dozen of their best red roses.
26. Dozens of doctors and nurses have been working day and night for weeks.
27. My father left me a dozen voice mail messages, none of which I listened to.
28. About a dozen so far.
29. This time the dead were numbered in hundreds, not dozens.
30. His hair sticks up in half a dozen directions.
31. Dozens of people have been injured and many vehicles set on fire.
32. A few dozen employees picketed the company's headquarters.
33. Only about half a dozen people turned up.
34. I bought a dozen eggs and every one of them was bad.
35. The photographers had already shot a dozen rolls of film.
36. In half a dozen words, he had explained the bond that linked them.
37. Each ship had a complement of around a dozen officers and 250 men.
38. The list of drinks, a dozen pages long, makes fascinating reading.
39. The corridor echoed with the barking of a dozen dogs.
40. You will be able to take ten dozen bottles free of duty through customs.
41. The soup was concocted from up to a dozen different kinds of fish.
42. Garbo made two dozen films, first silent pictures then talkies.
43. His chicken eggs sell for$ 22 a dozen.
44. A dozen mounted police rode into the square.
45. She was chatting away, nineteen to the dozen.
46. The new exhibit will tour a dozen US cities next year.
47. In the largest room about a dozen children and seven adults are sitting on the carpet.
48. Dozens of miles of railway track have been torn up.
49. Dozens of reporters camped out on her doorstep.
50. He has reversed himself on a dozen issues.
51. A dozen trees of various sorts were planted.
52. This phrase comes from bakers' old custom of adding one extra loaf to an order of a dozen.
53. The company employs no more than a couple of dozen people.