Dozens

"Dozens" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Dozens of letters are awaiting you.

Dozens of young people attended the demonstration.

Dozens of houses were burned down in that big fire.

When his wife died, he received dozens of letters of sympathy.

I met old friends by the dozens.

Dozens of people encouraged me to fulfill my ambitions.

Dozens of students gathered there.

Dozens of people were injured in the terrible accident.

Some species gradually develop elaborate repertoires of dozens or even hundreds of variants of a basic song.

Two books stand out among the dozens recently published on the Royal Family.

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[…] black communities, this “snap” or example of the “dozens” (the clever form of insult also known as signifying and dissin') appears: “Your father's so black that when he falls down, people hop over him for fear of falling in.”

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