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Example sentences for "dozen times"

  • She had given him a vow, and should have been true to her vow, so he said to himself a dozen times.

  • Adrian therefore was satisfied to potter about the ravine, and Madame Voss assured him at least a dozen times that it was the dearest wish of her heart to call him her nephew-in-law.

  • You have said that a dozen times, but have never attempted to give a reason.

  • George had determined a dozen times that he would, and a dozen times that he would not, speak to Marie about her coming marriage, changing his mind as often as it was formed.

  • For a whole week after her instalment Honora was in a continual state of excitement and anticipation, and the sound of wheels and voices on the highroad beyond the hedge sent her peeping to her curtains a dozen times a day.

  • I have not been in a church more than a dozen times in the last eight years, but you impressed me as a man who felt something --whatever it is.

  • Tucker would have made but short work of such evidence, my lad," said he, "and I think Master Philip would have lied himself in and out a dozen times.

  • I changed my opinion on this subject a dozen times.

  • A dozen times a day, while she was at her other work, he would come in and talk to her.

  • A dozen times a day he exclaimed in admiration or surprise over some bit of woodcraft practiced by Thorpe or one of the Indians.

  • For in the last month he had faced almost certain death a dozen times a day.

  • A dozen times he was hit, and then the apes ran down and gathered other rocks, pelting him unmercifully.

  • Taug and Teeka often wished that he was back, and Taug determined a dozen times to go and visit Tarzan in his seaside lair; but first one thing and then another interfered.

  • They might repeat these tactics a dozen times; but sooner or later one bull would close with another and then the whole hideous pack would be tearing and rending at their prey.

  • For nearly a week she spied on him, and she saw him out in the car with the stranger at least half a dozen times.

  • A dozen times, perhaps, she had crossed the English Channel, in fair weather and foul, and never with discomfort.

  • Hauled me down from Walnut Hill half a dozen times once, and after all the fellow wouldn't sell.

  • Tod would have been dead half a dozen times if it hadn't been for her and Doctor John, and there ain't nobody knows it better'n me.

  • Jane had heard it all a dozen times before, and so had every other visitor at Rose Cottage, but to Lucy it was only confirmation of her latter-day opinion of her hostess.

  • I made excuse to go and speak with him half a dozen times, and the last time I could hardly find him among the wreaths of cigarette smoke.

  • Most of us had experienced such storms a dozen times or more in the foot-hills of our Himalayas, and all of us knew the signs.

  • He can do it once, he can do it twice, he can do it at a stretch half a dozen times.

  • Say that a dozen times in his life a man has a complete sculpturesque vision--a vision in which the imagination recognizes a subject and the subject kindles the imagination.

  • Rowland was half a dozen times on the point of asking him what was the matter with him; he was afraid he was going to be ill.

  • This conscience upside down presented to Rowland's fancy a real physical image; he was on the point, half a dozen times, of bursting out laughing.

  • No one knows the wedding-day; the cards of invitation have been printed half a dozen times over, with a different date; each time Christina has destroyed them.

  • Rosalie used to hear Anna say to Flora a dozen times a day, "I really don't see why you should be the one to do nothing but amuse yourself all day long.

  • The look is to be seen a dozen times on any Sunday afternoon when the young couples are out.

  • The fond intention in thus carrying them on her person instead of bestowing them in her writing case was to read them a dozen times in the opportunities the day would afford.

  • He kissed Edie a dozen times over in his excitement, and sat up late making plans with her which would have been delightful but for poor Edie's lasting sorrow.

  • Certainly not,' Ronald responded, quickly, taking the handsome face firmly between his two spare hands, and kissing her lips half a dozen times over in rapid succession.

  • He hasn't called more than half a dozen times since we've been here.

  • Didn't he come here a dozen times while I was away?

  • Didn't I take up his name a dozen times in the last month?

  • I've asked you a dozen times to wear your other clothes.

  • Four or five days is time enough for us to change our moods a dozen times, so our correspondence will be apt to be complicated!

  • At least a dozen times I have made up my mind to tell you or to write you what is here, and each time I have turned back.

  • I go around seeking rest--and I write you a dozen times a day, and use up all the stamps in the house.

  • After they had breakfasted and started on the day's journey he laughed and talked with baby Isobel, and a dozen times in the forenoon he picked her up in his arms and carried her behind the dogs.

  • He could have killed you-- a dozen times, but you were good to me, and so you live.

  • He slipped a dozen times in the first five minutes, and then there came the time when he did not make a recovery, but plunged down the side of the mountain like a rock.

  • A dozen times we saved each other's lives.

  • I, who speak to you, have seen it so a dozen times in my life.

  • I have risked my life for that purpose half a dozen times.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dozen times" 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:
    before she; corn starch; dozen feet; dozen kilometres; dozen large; dozen men; dozen others; dozen oysters; dozen paces; dozen people; dozen rods; dozen steps; first violin; free will; great council; had become; human conduct; much loved; recent events; royal priesthood; select party; still less; then found; thing cannot; took command; wood light