How to use "twelve" in a sentence

There are still twelve kilometres to go.

'It's about twelve minutes from here.'

It is only twelve minutes' walk from Berner Street to Mitre Square, where the second murder happened

At the end of the year, however, Thenardier was not happy with just seven francs a month; he demanded twelve and Fantine paid without protest, happy that her daughter was being well cared for.

It took him more than twelve hours, and when he arrived, he discovered that Champmathieu's trial had already started

Chapter twelve

He always calls Jake 'kid', but he must be the same age as him: twelve or thirteen.

The doors slide open, and ten or twelve students from Chancery High School enter the carriage.

Chapter twelve

Beatrice arrived by car at about half past twelve

'When she was only twelve years old, the men could not stop looking at her

Hairdressers at twelve o'clock

The boy was about twelve, Danny's age

During the twelve years of their marriage, Tina had become a different and more complex person than she'd been on their wedding day, but Michael hadn't changed at all - and didn't like the woman that she had become

This year had passed in a blur of twelve- and fourteen-hour days, with no vacations and rarely a weekend off.

With seven massive production numbers, five major variety acts, forty-two girl dancers, forty-two boy dancers, fifteen showgirls, two boy singers, two girl singers (one temperamental), forty-seven crewmen and technicians, a twenty-piece orchestra, one elephant, one lion, two black panthers, six golden retrievers, and twelve white doves, the logistics were mind-numbingly complicated, but a year of arduous labor was evident in the slick and faultless unfolding of the program.

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.

A year ago, Jaborski's excursion had included fourteen boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen

No one in his right mind would take boys as young as twelve into the deepest parts of the Sierras, no matter how well prepared, supplied, and trained they were, no matter how strong, no matter how many big brothers were there to look out for them."

You had Danny for nearly twelve years."

Owen West and I opened for business in a cheap storefront office twelve years ago, right at the start of the biggest boom this town has ever seen

Both intruders stopped near the refrigerator, twelve or fourteen feet from Elliot

There were three sheets of paper, each containing ten or twelve typewritten questions.

Elliot and Tina found what they needed in one of the gun shops: a set of twelve wilderness maps of the Sierras, designed with backpackers and hunters in mind

He appeared to be older than twelve

Most die in twelve

But he liked me, and when I was twelve, I moved to Uncle Elias's house

Why would she take a suitcase into the woods at twelve o'clock at night? I don't expect it has anything to do with the murder

The ends of the curve slowly moved apart, until at least they formed a line about twelve kilometres long.

When he killed twelve chickens, and I paid for them, I changed my opinion of Montmorency

I said twelve

He woke me up about twelve times during the night

When she was twelve years old, she was working in the fields

From 1912 to 1913, she was in prison twelve times

When Billie Jean King was twelve years old, she decided that she wanted to fight for equal rights for girls and women

When she was twelve years old, she played at a tournament at the Los Angeles Tennis Club, but Billie Jean could not be in the group picture of young tennis players