How to use "dozen" in a sentence

But the bucket was so heavy that, after a dozen steps, she had to stop for a rest

Carol had been shiny-eyed and breathless because the high rollers had tipped her with green chips, as if they'd been winning instead of losing; for bringing them half a dozen drinks, she had collected twelve hundred dollars.

Finally I took a few mementos, a dozen pieces by which I'll always remember her, and I moved out, sold the house, bought this one, and started decorating all over again."

Elliot didn't want to ask Kennebeck for a favor within hearing of a dozen lawyers, and today there was nowhere in the house where they could be assured of privacy

The magazine contained half a dozen illustrated horror stories

If they had seen something, they'd have come back with at least a dozen different stories about it, none of them accurate

Many of them had been Presidential appointees, occupying high-level posts in the federal government; a few had served on the President's cabinet, in half a dozen administrations, though none had ever deigned to run for an elective position

George had been directly responsible for the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars and, eventually, for the control of hundreds of agents in a dozen countries

This slot was one of the half-dozen most powerful in the Network's executive hierarchy

He had enjoyed those murders so immensely, had been so profoundly thrilled by them, that he had, by choice, performed the executioner's role on half a dozen other assignments

A dozen times, she passed chinks in the wall, and Death glared out at her from every one of those apertures, screamed and cursed and raged at her, but none of the holes was large enough to allow him through

Half a dozen or more, judging by the sound of them

Take him to a dozen specialists until someone can tell you what's wrong with him

Its head flashed and burst into a dozen broken pieces of red flesh and shining metal.

A dozen signal lights went on as soon as they began to move, warning the waiting guns around Esher