How to Use dozen in a Sentence

dozen

noun

• Which leaves us with one spot, and half-a-dozen films to fill it.
  — Vulture, 23 Jan. 2023
• Who will fill the void in the other few dozen contests?
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 24 Feb. 2023
• The budget, along with dozens of amendments, passed in a 6-1 vote.
  — Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024
• More than a dozen of Tran’s family and friends watched from the gallery.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
• There are more than a dozen ways to get in for free to the festival this year.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2023
• The incumbent had served on the council for a dozen years.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 3 May 2023
• That track sold only a few dozen more copies than Jimin’s.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
• Check out over two dozen flicks, events and programs over 10 days.
  — Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
• There's the private ranch with horses and about a dozen homes scattered across Waimea and down by the beach.
  — Dara Kerr, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
• About a dozen civilians have also been killed in the fighting.
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• Its wings are offered with a choice of nearly two dozen sauces.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2024
• That was just one of dozens of rail updates across the country that have started since the bill was passed.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 10 May 2024
• First, as of midnight on the 4th, the counts were extremely close, with Trump ahead by just a dozen EVs.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
• In fact, Furid claims that its AirTag wallet can hold up to a dozen cards.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 29 Dec. 2022
• That area still has more than a dozen speed restrictions, the dashboard shows.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• Wallace said at least a dozen cities around the world have reached out about bringing the format to their city.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• The organization placed Brown in charge of a crew of a dozen men.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
• In normal times, dozens of gates along the wall will allow car traffic to pass through.
  — Xander Peters, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
• Overall, at least a dozen people have died from the infection across the U.S. so far in 2023.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
• Residents said dozens more were buried in the wreckage.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 18 Nov. 2023
• The agents hurried to the store and saw a man walk out with more than a dozen AK-47 style rifles, load them into a car, and drive off.
  — Ieva Jusionyte, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2024
• At my most recent skin check, my doctor found about a dozen spots.
  — Amy Norton, SELF, 22 July 2024
• This spring, Allen matched that total in his first dozen Cactus League games.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2023
• Trucks towed side-dump trailers around the winding bends dozens of feet above the glassy surface of the Iron Gate Reservoir.
  — oregonlive, 17 June 2023
• Tailors sew dozens of them a day in the narrow alleys of buzzing markets.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Thousands of viewers from dozens of countries near and far tune in each year.
  — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023
• About a dozen of us wear lightweight mixed martial arts gloves to protect our hands and wrists.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• The two sides traded dozens of missiles across the Israeli-Lebanese border overnight.
  — Vincent Ni, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024
• Syria’s defense ministry said dozens of soldiers have been killed in the Aleppo offensive.
  — Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
• Since January 2023, Arizonans have submitted dozens of complaints to the department that were related to provider networks.
  — Max Blau, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024