And now, sit down and tell me in half a dozen words, for I'm frightfully busy this morning, where you have been, and what you have done with yourself.
Before he had read much above a dozen words, however, his look of vexation gave place to one of astonishment, and that, in turn, to one of intense satisfaction.
He explained the matter in half a dozen words, put her into his own carriage and sent her to Robert Lauderdale at once, telling the coachman to come back for him.
The two men had not exchanged half a dozen words in eighteen months.
Why, all this afternoon I could scarcely get half a dozen words out of her; and she seems to have no energy to do anything.
I saw him once at the most painful moment of my life, and spoke half-a-dozen words to him in my own house after that--but it is what I have heard the gentlemen say.
Once or twice he interrupted the conversation abruptly with some half-dozen words, which brought it to a sudden stop, and gave him the opportunity of broaching his own subject.
And in obedience to this arrangement, Captain Percival did nothing but take off his hat in honour of Mary, and say half a dozen words of the most ordinary salutation to the stranger before he went away.
He interrupted her before she had spoken a dozen words, in order that he might exhibit before her eyes the project with which his bosom was filled.
But he did not listen; for before she had spoken a dozen words he had interrupted her, and poured out upon her his own wild plans and generous schemes.
Had she been out for a year or two, instead of being such a novice, she would have accomplished all this in half a dozen words.
Thorpe rarely found time to visit him, but he often glided into the office, smoked a pipeful of the white man's tobacco in friendly fashion by the stove, and glided out again without having spoken a dozen words.
Men who had not spoken a dozen words to him in as many days gathered his few belongings and stuffed them awkwardly into his satchel.
In the presence of an emergency these men of action had actually not exchanged a dozen words.
When she dismounted she could only speak half a dozen words of English, and Rutland folk are always suspicious of the foreigner--especially a woman.
She doesn't know half a dozen words of English, and London will be entirely strange to her after Tuscany.
But Gemma Fanetti was really a native of Florence, a true-bred Tuscan, who knew not half a dozen words of English.
You don't know a dozen words of English, so look blank if anybody speaks to you.
During the seventy minute flight they had not spoken more than a dozen words to each other.
Not half a dozen words," Manners replied in a disgusted voice.
I can't quite leave it there; I must say just half-a-dozen words more.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dozen words" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
