Example sentences for: half-dozen

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

  • Few foreign visitors are happy with the size and condition of the cages, although the new Panda Garden, featuring a half-dozen adult pandas and twin babies, is a bit more spacious and a step in the right direction.

  • Rebecca West should get a half-dozen listings but will be lucky to get one ( Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ). Ditto A.J.

  • A parlor game among political journalists these days is to see how many of Gore's half-dozen "communications directors" you can name.

  • Another half-dozen or so may be deceiving themselves rather than us, individuals such as the mayor of Delray Beach, Fla., Tom Lynch.

  • "Yesterday, this columnist ate a half-dozen kippers for breakfast, and he loved them all."


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