Word Finder - dozen

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A set of twelve.

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Can I have a dozen eggs, please?

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(as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.

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An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

You try but you can't protect me, Rhyn, which you've proven a dozen times over.

There's only a half dozen Lucky Strikes.

A dozen in all, I'd guess.

I closed my eyes as I thought of a dozen questions about security breach.

That left only a dozen mules and the bay.

My house was on the side of a hill, immediately on the edge of the larger wood, in the midst of a young forest of pitch pines and hickories, and half a dozen rods from the pond, to which a narrow footpath led down the hill.

There was no way in a dozen lifetimes I'd ever get a sniff at a tenth of that much money!

This Volt-Wheel has been around a half dozen years.

The phone rang more than a dozen times before a man with groggy voice answered.

His multimillionaire father's picture was on the wall, and he owned two dozen restaurants in the Annapolis area, including this one.

He served about a dozen years for rape in California and dropped out of sight after he was released.

Our case of water bottles, down three from the original two dozen would need to be rationed.

Large spots of blood puddled the tile in a dozen places.

He was hundreds of thousands of mortal years old, but less than half a dozen in angel years.

The Lucky Pup is one of a dozen or so digs scattered around his property up in Governor's Basin.

While Cynthia took her shower, Dean made a few phone calls, asking for Ms. Dawkins, but after a dozen tries, he came up empty.

Dean considered a further prompt, but a dozen years of dealing with attorneys taught him it would be both unsuccessful and unwise.

Dean scampered out the door, tripping over a dozen "Dean for Sheriff" placards, delivered overnight by one of Fred's legion.

And you randomly assign him new moms every few dozen years and then send Gabriel to pick them off at the end.

Gabriel was sitting alone on top of one of the half dozen picnic tables.

Donnie's entrance seemed to brighten Edith's morning as she clucked over him, cautioning him about the perils of his undertaking in a dozen different ways, all the while ignoring father Donald who'd fled from her bed the night before.

She came down long enough to eat a dozen biscuits before she beat it back upstairs.

The Wizard's sword-blade snapped into a dozen pieces at the first blow he struck against the wooden people.

In 1921, a dozen years before he would be sworn in as president, Franklin Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio.

I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live.

The forces of a dozen European nations burst into Russia.

Behind it were seven hundred miles of hunger-stricken, hostile country; ahead were a few dozen miles separating it from its goal.

But having taken a dozen steps he seemed to remember something and stopped.

Now it held about two dozen people, some climbers preparing their equipment and photographers availing themselves of the excellent location where they could look straight down on the climbers below them.

Cop two remained a dozen steps behind them as if to let the pair know they'd better do as they were told.

When he finished eating, he called the Indiana number, letting the phone ring a dozen times.

I could collar a dozen perps and someone'd bitch because I didn't line 'em up in alphabetical order.

In between, he telephoned Indiana a dozen more times.

Even if it was Bird Song where she stayed, the place must have been altered a dozen times in the last century.

Jerome Shipton was scarcely a dozen feet lower, off to his left.

But Ryland's personal knowledge of her was limited to a couple rolls in the hay a dozen years ago.

There were a dozen such places, and the snow had melted over part of the rocky areas, making tracking almost impossible.

The guards have shot another dozen people around the perimeters, and our sensors indicate there is a small camp of some sort housing over a hundred survivors nearby and another one with several hundred at the bottom of the mountain, she said.

The first gate consisted of a few dozen men better armed than his team atop a thick steel wall with an iron core.

The administrator scan, which only the President or Vice President could run, came back with half a dozen errors.

Suddenly, half a dozen well-armed men appeared below her.

His back was to the living area as he pulled off every one of the dozen weapons he wore on his body and lined them up in front of him to start cleaning.

Sent her to half a dozen agencies on rotation.

A dozen or so of the PMF soldiers were present.

He faced the jungle.  The trees were battling demons, but one then a few then a dozen of the creatures escaped the jungle's grip to pursue.

As it turned out, the safe house location was safe with Dean as he had no idea where they were after the first half dozen turns.

Yet try as he may, he didn't know the names of the three little kids next door, who'd come trick-or-treating for a half dozen years, sold Girl Scout cookies and always smiled—and they knew his name.

She remembered 'cause she hasn't had a dozen customers since.

Andy Sackler and Dean responded to a call crosstown at Ralph's Barber Shop, where they found a crowd milling around the sidewalk and a half dozen customers seated inside.

He and Randy shared the remains of nearly a dozen stale doughnuts after knocking off a quart of milk and a cheese sandwich each.