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.