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Example sentences for "twelve children"

  • John married Jemima Tingley, of Sackville, and had a family of twelve children.

  • His family consisted of twelve children, six sons and six daughters.

  • Charles Oulton married a Miss Fillimore, and they had a family of twelve children, seven daughters and five sons.

  • I am one of twelve children, but I only knew eight, as the others died when I was young.

  • In the meantime children are not sent to the day nurseries already established, but are commonly taken to neighbors, some of whom are paid for taking care of ten or twelve children.

  • One priest said he had seen women taking as many as twelve children to a single village.

  • The original plans were to accommodate ten or twelve children, but as soon as the nursery opened there were so many women wanting to leave their children there that it took as many as thirty children.

  • She was the mother of twelve children, but only three now survive.

  • They became the parents of twelve children, eight of whom survive.

  • James Spalding was the third of twelve children, and for many years a successful practitioner of medicine in Montpelier, Vt.

  • Diana said that she had been the mother of twelve children; five had escaped to Canada, three were in their graves, and three accompanied her; one was left in Maryland.

  • They had a family of twelve children, of whom three daughters and five sons are living.

  • His wife was in her maidenhood Miss Gould and by their marriage they became the parents of twelve children.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twelve children" 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:
    caused them; dread lord; even then; great happiness; sound like; then dried; there should; twelve cents; twelve children; twelve dollars; twelve eggs; twelve fathoms; twelve feet; twelve grains; twelve inches; twelve minutes; twelve months; twelve ounces; twelve pence; twelve shillings; twelve stones; twelve thousand; twelve times; twelve volumes; twelve years; west wind