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Example sentences for "dozen men"

  • How long do you think it would take you with a crew of a dozen men to cut and pile the waste stuff in 18?

  • The smoking car contained then but a half-dozen men.

  • The problems that kept a dozen men busy in the solving came here also, together with a hundred others.

  • All up and down the Sierras he had unearthed enough petty fraud and inefficiency to send a half-dozen men to jail and to break another half-dozen from the ranks.

  • I have a dozen men ready to take my side if I raise my voice?

  • If it had been a scoundrel who had cut his wife's throat, and stabbed half a dozen men, they would have refused to give him up to the civil power, and would have stood on the rights of sanctuary of the Church.

  • The brig lay dismasted, and scarce a dozen men out of the forty she carried were alive to throw down their arms on deck and cry that they surrendered.

  • Down came the foremast, crushing half a dozen men as she fell.

  • We could settle with a dozen men nearly in the same time that we can with two or three; and if they would all come and get settled with in one or two days, that would be so much less trouble to us.

  • If I had a dozen men to settle with, I settled with them one after another, and they went away.

  • It was generally a list of about half a dozen men, whether they engaged or not.

  • We might have a list of perhaps half a dozen men from an agent, and it might happen that only one of these men had been out for that agent for that year.

  • But you had a dozen men to lift it up and put it in the box.

  • If you have boats enough, you may take half a dozen men.

  • The piano was not a heavy load for the raft, for it floated well out of water, and had buoyancy enough to sustain the weight of a dozen men.

  • But you want half a dozen men," added he.

  • Or, if they cannot bring themselves to that, they may decide to leave half a dozen men to watch the entrance, while the rest scatter themselves over the forests.

  • As to an escort, less than a dozen men would be useless, and as they would be a fortnight at least going down, and as much returning, even if you could get twelve men who could be relied upon, it would be a very expensive job.

  • No doubt they have half a dozen men on watch where we first saw them, and these would give notice if we were coming.

  • Bertie was about to answer, when there was an outburst of shouts from a wine-shop they were passing, and in a moment the door burst open and half a dozen men engaged in a fierce conflict rushed out.

  • They may, as you say, be going to move off, leaving perhaps half a dozen men to watch the entrance and report if we attempt to escape.

  • I myself have seen half-a-dozen men at work in a room that was a little better than a bedstead long.

  • And a dozen men ran in to save them; but the poor wretches, screaming with terror, refused to stir.

  • Half a dozen men, led by Captain Jenness, were riding swiftly to join us and we shouted in our joy.

  • Gail, I have told you the heart-history of half a dozen men.

  • Long before the excitement died away a dozen men were on their feet shouting at the chairman, and among them was the tall, stooping man with spectacles.

  • Perhaps there were but a dozen men, however, who saw its real significance, who knew through this item that Jethro Bass was still supreme--that the railroads had failed to carry this first position in their war against him.

  • A buzz of excitement ran over the house, a dozen men were on their feet, including the plainly agitated Mr. Harper himself.

  • In the tiny kitchen a dozen men and a boy tried to hush their breathing, and sweltered.

  • Perhaps a dozen men, here and there upon the street, had seen.

  • But he could ride back to the ranch, gather up a dozen men, put guns into their hands, be back here in the matter of a couple of hours.

  • By the light of the fire it could be seen that about half a dozen men at the front of the column were armed with muskets, which, with or without a command from the officer, they brought to their shoulders and fired.

  • A watch would not amount to anything unless he put as many as half a dozen men on it," answered Levi.

  • They have sent a dozen men or more down the bank of the creek, and they are out of sight now," replied Levi.

  • Before he could reach the platform, a dozen men appeared at the door.

  • I could make out about half a dozen men or boys there, and I watched them for some time.

  • Off with you, Stubbs, with half-a-dozen men, and go round outside.

  • This was carefully done by a dozen men despatched in different directions, every possible hiding-place being examined by the aid of the lanterns, without result.

  • Then it was decided to take a dozen men along, and the doctor and the landlord bade the old driver good night and departed, when he at once turned in, after throwing a large log upon his fire to burn until morning.

  • The half-dozen men appearing at the call of their chief seemed to be well trained, for two of them went to the heads of the horses, two more to either door of the coach, and the others awaited orders.

  • Round the castle, in a wide, irregular circle, had been built a stout stone wall, perhaps twenty feet high, wide enough on the top for half a dozen men to walk abreast.

  • There stepped from the boat an officer in a splendid uniform, followed by a lieutenant and half a dozen men, one of whom carried the flag of Scotland.

  • The door burst in, and there came, trampling, half a dozen men, who entered with scant ceremony, led by a stalwart individual who cast a quick glance from one to the other of the three who were seated.

  • When she went off half a dozen men rose in their places, and aimed nuggets at her.

  • It was hours after when we overtook them, about a dozen men, all in the maddest hurry, and casting behind them glances of furtive apprehension.

  • Surely a man was moving amid the brush, two men, a dozen men, moving in single file very stealthily.

  • Here, boatswain, pass the word for the cook and get half-a-dozen men to help.

  • Mr Burgess will follow in the large boat with a dozen men, to lie off the mouth of the river ready to help you if you are in trouble; so make for there.

  • Winks is there with half-a-dozen men; join them and superintend.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dozen men" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black cherry; dead shot; dozen cloves; dozen different; dozen feet; dozen men; dozen miles; dozen more; dozen other; dozen others; dozen oysters; dozen people; dozen rods; dozen words; dozen yards; fairy tales; great confusion; large water; learned from; mother darling; moving pictures; pass through the fire; said briefly; she resumed; though hardly; what course