How to Use several dozen in a Sentence

several dozen

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  • By dawn several dozen men regrouped by some cottages on the edge of the city.
    — Oleksandr Chubko Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • That figure is up several dozen from the count just days before.
    — CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • There were some reports from Hamas that several dozen have been killed in the air strikes.
    — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • This is the equivalent of taking several dozen gas cars off the road.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
  • The ashes are in several dozen clear bags with pet names printed on gold labels.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Comments on the post were disabled after the first several dozen replies.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2025
  • Already, several dozen people were sitting in the rows of blue chairs.
    — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
  • Boelts employs several dozen people on the farm, 30 of them year-round.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • More than a decade of watching several dozen pulsars has yet to turn up a firm detection.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 31 Mar. 2023
  • However, those several dozen people did keep their traps shut.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Both pilots died and several dozen people were injured.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Bailiffs led several dozen people into the courtroom.
    — CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The group has organized protests of several dozen people for the past several weeks.
    — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Dornoch is one of several dozen race horses owned in part by Two Eight Racing.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Grossman said ticket sales were strong for the last tour, which concluded this past summer and stopped in several dozen cities.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Kaseya’s website lists several dozen openings.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Though lead lines have been replaced at tens of thousands of homes, the city still hasn't completed outreach to several dozen homes.
    — Paul Egan, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
  • On Wednesday afternoon, Ramos stepped in the box in front of several dozen fans and took his turn to flex.
    — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The move follows the layoffs of several dozen employees over the past 18 months.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Are any of them still viable, buried under the moon’s regolith, the dust that varies in depth from a few metres to several dozen metres?
    — Laurent Palka, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • City contractors removed several dozen camps from the wetlands, meadows, forests and trails.
    — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
  • This approach shortened cleaning cycles by up to several dozen percent.
    — Adrian Stelmach, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • They are pounded roughly 20 feet into the ocean bottom, and city crews replace several dozen each year.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 24 May 2025
  • In addition, several dozen positions are poised to see reduced hours.
    — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
  • There are several dozen grand ayatollahs and sources of emulation in the world.
    — Eric Lob, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
  • And that all came about because residents saw a charter bus go through town, stop at a local gas station, and several dozen men got out of the bus.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
  • Kyiv said hundreds of Russian troops were killed or wounded, while Moscow said several dozen were killed.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
  • While several dozen people made it to shore, several hundred perished in stormy weather.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • There are several dozen others who have accomplished the feat before then—though still fewer than 50.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • This year climbers enjoyed an early weather window, and several dozen reached the top on May 13.
    — Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 26 June 2024

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