Half-dozen

A half-dozen tools make up the tool collection.

We have a half-dozen eggs.

Where, on a bright autumn morning, there were sounds of music and laughter, and where two girls danced merrily together on the grass, while some half-dozen peasant women standing on ladders, gathering the apples from the trees, stopped in their work to look down, and share their enjoyment.

She had reached the outskirts of the city when she found the road blocked by a great drove of cattle, driven by a half-dozen wild-looking herdsmen from the plains.

There was a half-dozen victims.

There were some half-dozen people in the room who had been there when he arrived, and a number of others had come and gone in the interim.

The half-dozen passengers buckle up their seat belts as the twin-engine plane spirals down from the sky in a corkscrew motion over the capital's main airport.

The petite woman with flowing black hair and high-heeled sandals stands on a church’s steps, looking more Italian than Sophia Loren. She hands out an Italian breakfast staple — cornetti — pastries filled with custard — to a half-dozen Americans. As they nibble, Mazzaglia, Toni for short, introduces herself.