How to Use half dozen in a Sentence

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• Six of one, half dozen of the other?
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 30 Nov. 2025
• In the book, there are about a half dozen trees on the island.
  — Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
• And next fall, save a half dozen bags of leaves for this purpose.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2023
• For Tiana and her half dozen, the table is full.
  — Ryan Dennis, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
• Swing by for a half dozen and be sure to check out their special donuts of the month.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024
• In the past week alone, a half dozen people called in, saying the same thing.
  — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
• At least a half dozen firefighters showed up to battle the fire.
  — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
• Baku has more than a half dozen wine bars close to the waterfront harbor.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
• Officers opened fire more than a half dozen times, striking him.
  — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Nov. 2025
• Well, that’s just a half dozen out of 37 locations on the list.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
• More than a half dozen homes were deemed unsafe as nearby roads and sidewalks sagged.
  — Nick Caloway, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
• This past Wednesday saw not one, nor two, but at least half dozen staffers in some shade of red.
  — Fred Sahai, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2026
• Profar leaped and caught the ball in the face of about a half dozen fans who reached for the would-be home run ball.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2024
• Oysters with house hot sauce are $12 for a half dozen and $24 for a dozen.
  — Kate Murphy, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
• The rider was quickly swarmed by a half dozen cops and arrested.
  — Josh Campbell, CNN Money, 9 June 2025
• There were more than a half dozen people in the parking when gunfire erupted.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 21 June 2023
• So our host filled a half dozen tasting cups with a wild chartreuse color liquid.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2024
• The initial focus is on a half dozen crops in a half dozen countries Africa.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• Imagine The Goonies with a half dozen adults tramping through the caves.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• Kelce has attended the tour a half dozen times since the couple went public last year.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
• The officers then opened fire more than a half dozen times, according to the video.
  — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Dec. 2025
• Near Rolles, a half dozen women stood by parked cars, rosary beads clasped, heads lowered in prayer.
  — Natasha Korecki, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2025
• Use a half dozen of your Easter eggs for this recipe or boil extra eggs and stick them in the fridge.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
• Tiana's half dozen enjoying mom's latest meal.
  — Ryan Dennis, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
• Here are a half dozen books worth the trip back into the classrooms and corridors of high school.
  — Miriam Gershow june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
• The problem is that for every element that clicks, there are a half dozen more that don’t.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
• Kenya, 54, has worked for at least a half dozen couples and knows these two to be kind and decent.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
• On a hill about 50 yards away, a half dozen of them were happily munching grass.
  — Johannes Lichtman, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2024
• The movie quickly became a smash hit at the box office, with a half dozen more sequels later on.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 July 2023
• Our team of a half dozen volunteers worked for a little over an hour, amazed at the size of these starchy beasts in the earthy soil.
  — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026