How to Use half dozen in a Sentence

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  • Achatz hand pies are $42 a dozen, or $21 per half dozen.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2023
  • And next fall, save a half dozen bags of leaves for this purpose.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2023
  • Oysters with house hot sauce are $12 for a half dozen and $24 for a dozen.
    Kate Murphy, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The initial focus is on a half dozen crops in a half dozen countries Africa.
    Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Kelce has attended the tour a half dozen times since the couple went public last year.
    Bryan West, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
  • The problem is that for every element that clicks, there are a half dozen more that don’t.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
  • There were more than a half dozen people in the parking when gunfire erupted.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 21 June 2023
  • There were more than a half dozen people in the parking when gunfire erupted.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 21 June 2023
  • These rams looked for all the world like a half dozen of good ol’ boys hanging around a pool hall waiting for something to happen.
    Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 25 July 2024
  • The movie quickly became a smash hit at the box office, with a half dozen more sequels later on.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 July 2023
  • More than a half dozen cars lined the street in the quiet gated subdivision.
    Christine MacDonald, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2024
  • The big acts: More than a half dozen major tours are scheduled in the Twin Cities over several days in mid-August.
    Torey Van Oot, Axios, 28 July 2024
  • In the video, around a half dozen of the animals can be seen breaching just feet from the boat and loudly spouting mist from their blowholes.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
  • At the time of the school’s creation, only about a half dozen gifted schools existed for math and sciences.
    John Sharp | , al, 26 Apr. 2023
  • At the time of the school’s creation, only about a half dozen gifted schools existed for math and sciences.
    John Sharp | , al, 26 Apr. 2023
  • One of her musicians who came out of the tent to get some air spotted a half dozen Klansmen in white robes trying to pull out the tent’s stakes.
    Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2024
  • Once in handcuffs, James Crumbley is seen staring at the floor while a team of about a half dozen officers roam about the room.
    Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The cell phone video shows dozens of young Israeli men swarming by the half dozen gas pumps, shouting in anger, rampaging past the queuing cars.
    Nic Robertson, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
  • But the Justice Department has charged more than a half dozen people with making threats.
    Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Once in handcuffs, James Crumbley is seen staring at the floor while about a half dozen officers roam about the room.
    Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The Biden administration maintains there is nothing provocative about the visit by Tsai, which is the latest of a half dozen to the U.S.
    Huizhong Wu, ajc, 6 Apr. 2023
  • At one end of the table sat Giovanni Paolo Secondo, as the Italians called him, flanked by a half dozen red hats.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 7 Feb. 2024
  • So consider limiting your first-round upsets to a half dozen or so.
    USA Today, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Houston sports a higher potential to flip from pushover to contender than any of the other half dozen teams at the bottom of NBA league standings.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The event drew a half dozen police vehicles, but an officer said there would be no arrests.
    Reuters, CNN, 14 June 2023
  • The event drew a half dozen police vehicles, but an officer said there would be no arrests.
    Reuters, CNN, 14 June 2023
  • The removable rain fly is vented for airflow — a major plus for preventing a stuffy tent when packed with a half dozen campers.
    Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
  • All the pasta for Bacco's more than a half dozen selections, according to its online menu, is made in-house.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Because Utah was already playing without a half dozen starters.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • That resulted in more than a half dozen arrests of juvenile suspects, with three being formally charged.
    Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024

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