用half a dozen造句子，“half a dozen”造句

He had half a dozen houses, but he was seldom at home.

She had stuffed half a dozen of the absorptive pads into the wound and watched as they magically turned red.

I went half a dozen times to hear him preach and got very well acquainted with his theology.

Often capital is pooled among members of a meng, a fraternity of sorts of half a dozen or more male friends.

Patrick said John started the fight, but I think it was probably six of one and half a dozen of the other.

True to form, you can also find bios of Eriksen in about half a dozen other languages, and the article is changing rapidly due to all the attention.

Fast as lightning, the elephant snatched up the lion with his trunk, slammed him against a tree half a dozen times, making the lion feeling like it'd been run over by a safari wagon.

I drove to half a dozen grocery stores in search of candles for my husband's birthday cake, eventually settling on a box of dusty leftovers I found in the kitchen.

COLOMBIA IS ONE of Latin America's top makers of fine lingerie, but finding an unpadded brassiere in Bogotá is impossible. I have been to more than half a dozen stores.

The freezer holds one ancient package of sausage (I look at the date, then throw it out), one bag of peas, and half a dozen plastic containers full of ice.

I've had half a dozen unimportant affairs.

FLATOW: So my producers are half a dozen (unintelligible) outthink me.

If you write a half-dozen programs, each of which sorts lines, you can end up having to fix similar bugs half a dozen times instead of having one better-maintained sort program to work on.

By the end of the workshop, out walk half a dozen ducks waiting to turn into swans, ready for lunch.

Breakfast is the delightful experience: with half a dozen fresh juices, delicate freshly baked croissant and pastries, a generous portion of eggs ranchero and excellent coffee.

Traveling through its deep mountain valleys is like crossing half a dozen tiny countries, each with their own distinct languages and customs.

Beside the barricades, black rags hang from bamboo flagstaffs-in honour, the locals say, of half a dozen villagers killed this month in a battle with the state government's goons.

This is unfortunate, as next day we encounter half a dozen fin whales blowing and waving their massive tails, with dolphins cavorting among them and playing in our bow wave.

So the American Museum of Natural History researchers took known venomous species—which include stonefish, catfish, lionfish, scorpion fish, toadfish, stargazers, and half a dozen other families—and tried to determine how they were related to each other and additional fish.

More than half a dozen soldiers have been killed while patrolling in the vehicles.

"Get out," said the drummer, lightly. "He hasn't called more than half a dozen times since we've been here."

Hardboil half a dozen, let them cool, shell them, and cover them with cold cider vinegar, plus dried chillis, peppercorns and any other spices you fancy.

They are nothing more than strips of dough dunked in a huge vat of boiling oil and fried until crispy, but they’re so tasty you’ll sometimes see locals getting through half a dozen at a time.

Such environments are used to host meetings and to create virtual workspaces for employees who may be part of the same team but spread out over half a dozen countries.

More than half a dozen websites advertise such services.

The obvious weakness is in goal, where no outstanding candidate has emerged from half a dozen reasonably good ones.

This was the beginning of a creative period which resulted in Chao's turning out half a dozen books and a number of plays within the space of a year.

However, to apply Western critical standards to a Chinese writer, especially one who is not only writing but editing, working on the farm, taking part in the land reform and a half a dozen other movements, would be academic in the extreme.

Of course if I'd had any sense I'd have married a Malay girl and had half a dozen half-caste kids.

An ill marked stony drove road guided me forward; and I met nearly half a dozen bullock-carts descending from the woods, each laden with a whole pine-tree for the winter's firing.

Bill Bobbitt, a county inspector, dips a ladle into the water and brings up half a dozen wriggling larvae.

I was disappointed in the article. Any tourist could have written it-just a list of the usual show-places and half a dozen thumbnail portraits of local worthies.

We normally use 'six of one, half a dozen of the other'when we think there is very little difference between two choices.

Lay out aloft, there, half a dozen of ye -- foretopmaststuns'l!

Sanders says that he runs into half a dozen people a week who refer to their grandmother as a source of business inspiration.