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Example sentences for "dozen steps"

  • For Nellie had limped along a dozen steps in great pain.

  • Scarcely had he taken a dozen steps than he realized the cause of his mare's unwillingness to proceed further.

  • By this time Yellow Elk had arrived to within a dozen steps of them.

  • He advanced a dozen steps, then halted and stared about him.

  • But half a dozen steps farther on he checked himself.

  • He arose from the seat he had taken and staggered away half a dozen steps, his hands still clinched.

  • These were conclusions which had come in flashes, while Fectnor took less than half a dozen steps.

  • A protected torch would have been invisible to one staring toward it a dozen steps away.

  • Having made sure the warrior did not mean to fire, Hay-uta kept a few paces in the background, while the two noiselessly advanced a half-dozen steps or more.

  • The latter feigned alarm, and, ducking his head, as if to dodge the threatened blow, ran away so swiftly that before Jack could take more than half a dozen steps in pursuit, he was out of sight.

  • The Winnebago chieftain was gazing intently into the night, when from behind a tree, no more than a dozen steps distant, softly stepped the young Shawanoe.

  • He ran a dozen steps or so from shore to where was the stump of a tree that had probably been splintered by a thunder-bolt, and around which sprouted a number of bushes that were dense enough to hide a large object within.

  • They had not taken a dozen steps, when Deerfoot glided from behind the tree and passed after them, as if he were the shadow thrown out by the light of the camp-fire.

  • He had not taken a dozen steps up the ravine before he found out.

  • Hardly had he mounted half a dozen steps, however, before he was compelled to pause, to gain breath.

  • After he had mounted a dozen steps or so, he paused to take breath.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dozen steps" 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:
    after what has happened; but she; coral reef; did this; dozen cloves; dozen different; dozen feet; dozen large; dozen men; dozen more; dozen oysters; dozen paces; dozen people; dozen rods; dozen words; dozen years; eight degrees; fire ceremony; former page; found wild; great promise; popularly known; silicic acid; soon will; tell stories; yoke upon