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Example sentences for "dozen rods"

  • Be ye drunk, or be ye sober, that ye stand there shoutin' in the cold with a log cabin within a dozen rods of ye?

  • It's strange that a man of your sense will stand jibberin' here in the snow with a roarin' fire within a dozen rods of ye.

  • For another hour he rowed back and forth and then beached his boat within a dozen rods of the path that came down from Obadiah's.

  • A dozen rods farther on his mysterious guide turned into a by-path which led them to another knoll, capped by a good-sized building made of logs.

  • A dozen rods up the path Neil turned into a dense thicket of briars and underbrush and for ten minutes they plunged through the pathless jungle.

  • Far below us was the beach, from half a dozen to a dozen rods in width, with a long line of breakers rushing to the strand.

  • At the head of East Harbor Creek, the Atlantic is separated but by half a dozen rods of sand from the tide-waters of the Bay.

  • It's strange that a man of yer sense will stand jibberin' here in the snow with a roarin' fire within a dozen rods of ye.

  • The animal was taken completely by surprise and was less than half a dozen rods away.

  • He pointed to a clump of spruce a dozen rods away.

  • Still a seventh had run for a dozen rods, leaving a crimson trail behind, and when Wabi and Rod came up to it the animal was convulsed in its last dying struggles.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dozen rods" 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:
    acid phosphate; closely connected; coming from; constant volume; deep mourning; dozen cloves; dozen kilometres; dozen large; dozen men; dozen other; dozen others; dozen paces; dozen people; dozen steps; dozen times; dozen yards; generally admitted; good opinion; good prince; great letter; incandescent lamps; plane parallel; social development; stewed fruit; what avail; wicked works