Example sentences for: dozen

How can you use “dozen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Below, a dozen putative unions from this past Sunday's New York Times "Wedding" page.

  • Before he finished cutting an album, he'd have half a dozen new songs to try to squeeze in.

  • A few hours after Japan’s attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, a dozen Japanese battalions began an assault on Hong Kong; Hong Kong’s minimal air force was destroyed on the airfield at Kai Tak within five minutes.

  • It seems that last summer Gates and his wife took several dozen friends on a vacation trip out West, and at one point they stopped at a restaurant for dinner.

  • The best place to spot these cuddly-looking beasts in something resembling the wilds is at the China Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, 11 km (7 miles) northeast of downtown Chengdu, where a dozen pandas have free run of some 30 hectares (80 acres) of bamboo groves.


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