How to Use several dozen in a Sentence

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• There were some reports from Hamas that several dozen have been killed in the air strikes.
  — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2023
• By dawn several dozen men regrouped by some cottages on the edge of the city.
  — Oleksandr Chubko Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• This is the equivalent of taking several dozen gas cars off the road.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
• Boelts employs several dozen people on the farm, 30 of them year-round.
  — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• Dornoch is one of several dozen race horses owned in part by Two Eight Racing.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
• Video of the event shows several dozen people gathered around the Solovetsky Stone, which was heaped with flowers.
  — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• The Times followed up with a 5,600-word front-page story, in which reporter Ted Rohrlich fact-checked several dozen claims in Davis’ books.
  — Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• Are any of them still viable, buried under the moon’s regolith, the dust that varies in depth from a few metres to several dozen metres?
  — Laurent Palka, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
• At Molasses Key, the team quickly found several dozen adult conchs and loaded them into oversized blue milk crates to haul back to the boat.
  — Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024
• More than a decade of watching several dozen pulsars has yet to turn up a firm detection.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 31 Mar. 2023
• Though lead lines have been replaced at tens of thousands of homes, the city still hasn't completed outreach to several dozen homes.
  — Paul Egan, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
• This year climbers enjoyed an early weather window, and several dozen reached the top on May 13.
  — Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 26 June 2024
• Since the Sandy Hook shooting, there have been more than 4,200 mass shootings in the United States, including several dozen at schools.
  — Alice Gainer, CBS News, 12 June 2024
• At least five people have been reported killed in the last week, according to a CNN count, and several dozen wounded.
  — Andrew Carey and Maria Kostenko, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
• And that all came about because residents saw a charter bus go through town, stop at a local gas station, and several dozen men got out of the bus.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
• Thursday, several dozen media members stood by on the field and in the stands to watch Fujinami throw a bullpen session.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2023
• In addition to two fields of sage, Woodward-Taylor has several dozen seedlings ready to transplant into the field.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2022
• Kyiv said hundreds of Russian troops were killed or wounded, while Moscow said several dozen were killed.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
• Meanwhile, several dozen startups in the space have raised half a billion dollars in the past year, according to Crunchbase.
  — Byirina Ivanova, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2023
• The event was attended by several dozen supporters, who packed the cramped upstairs room of the Greenwich Village club.
  — oregonlive, 23 June 2023
• None of those measures has passed at the halfway point of the legislative session, while several dozen GOP proposals are still alive.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2024
• The move has the potential to result in several dozen workers leaving the company.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
• Mike Keneally has made several dozen albums as a band leader and has been featured on 200 or so more by other artists.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
• Veronica says several dozen people showed up for that one.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 16 July 2024
• The contractors’ event took place in a banquet hall of several dozen people, mostly men, mostly white, many burly or tattooed.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• The following month, the school said several dozen transfer students who had been assigned to live in the motel had moved into on-campus housing.
  — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• The city itself is located right next to the border of Slovakia and several dozen kilometers from Hungary.
  — Wojciech Delikta, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2023
• City contractors removed several dozen camps from the wetlands, meadows, forests and trails.
  — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
• In some cases, budgeting can entail thousands of slides; AI can cut that number to several dozen.
  — Paul Hudson, STAT, 8 Sep. 2023
• However, falls prevention is just one of several dozen components of the visit, and there often is not enough time to focus on it.
  — Anand Parekh, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024