How to Use half dozen in a Sentence

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• In the book, there are about a half dozen trees on the island.
  — Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
• Achatz hand pies are $42 a dozen, or $21 per half dozen.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2023
• Swing by for a half dozen and be sure to check out their special donuts of the month.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Well, that’s just a half dozen out of 37 locations on the list.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
• Kenya, 54, has worked for at least a half dozen couples and knows these two to be kind and decent.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
• The initial focus is on a half dozen crops in a half dozen countries Africa.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• On a hill about 50 yards away, a half dozen of them were happily munching grass.
  — Johannes Lichtman, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 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 | [e-mail], al, 21 June 2023
• There were more than a half dozen people in the parking when gunfire erupted.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], 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
• So our host filled a half dozen tasting cups with a wild chartreuse color liquid.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 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
• About a half dozen friends and relatives looked on as Chaney and Duffy exchanged vows in a conference room at the library.
  — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 24 Nov. 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
• There are 34 Senate seats up for grabs, with about a half dozen of those likely to be decided by tight margins.
  — Jordan Kellogg, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
• 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 rocket has launched SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule with astronauts aboard to the space station more than a half dozen times since 2020.
  — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
• Elon Musk’s humanoid robot wowed attendees as a half dozen or so navigated their way safely through the crowd at Warner Bros. studio lot in Hollywood entirely untethered.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2024

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