How to use "dozen" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "dozen" in popular movie and book plots

  • The match took place in Savaronoff's flat, with at least a dozen people watching the game.  - The Big Four (novel)
  • on him; they learn through Interpol that he is an international fugitive wanted in over a dozen countries.  - S.W.A.T. (film)
  • Half a dozen other students reveal complex natures and share their innermost feelings.  - American High (TV series)
  • Finishing the game unlocks one of more than a dozen game endings, dependent on the player's actions during the game.  - Geneforge
  • This cuts to the band members reading off several dozen radio intros.  - Meeting People Is Easy
  • The film begins with a prologue in which a dozen or so of the fifteen citizens are introduced.  - Dogville
  • Yousef then returned to Manila, where he began preparing at least a dozen bombs, each with more explosive materials.  - Ramzi Yousef
  • In a few dozen paragraphs he imagines himself a wartime pilot, an emergency-room surgeon, and a devil-may-care killer.  - Walter Mitty
  • Progen, Jenquai and Terrans alike have thrived, spreading their civilizations across a dozen star systems, exploiting their riches.  - Earth & Beyond
  • Charnier drives to an old factory on Wards Island to meet Weinstock, and about a dozen others, and deliver the drugs.  - The French Connection (film)
  • Fighting breaks out in which about a dozen sailors and many Chinese are killed.  - The Sand Pebbles (film)
  • As this happens, Agent Polk, lt Snyder, and a half dozen FBI officers storm the parlor.  - The Sting
  • The three are mired in a love triangle in the last dozen or so pages, resulting in a tragic ending.  - Imitation of Life (novel)
  • It is decided to re-evaluate humanity after "a dozen half-deaths of radium" (19200 years).  - Have Space Suit—Will Travel
  • It has built a dozen exploratory torchships to search for habitable planets to colonize.  - Time for the Stars
  • Several dozen less powerful species from the League of Non-Aligned Worlds appear, including the Drazi, Brakiri, Vree, Markab, and pak'ma'ra.  - Babylon 5

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