TWELVE in a Sentence

Learn TWELVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
228 example sentences for TWELVE, such as:
1. The clock began to strike twelve.
2. I had twelve years of good education.
3. He is twelve years old, she explained.
4. He was a funny looking boy about twelve.
5. Be here by twelve o'clock at the latest.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TWELVE
twelve
 n.  the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
 a.  denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI. Who Stole the Tarts?
2  There's twelve of us an my father only gets sixteen shilling a week.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  He was a funny looking boy about twelve.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  I never had any children myself and she's had twelve, and there never was healthier or better ones.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  He is twelve years old, she explained.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  They would see all the twelve children and Dickon's garden and would not come back until they were tired.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  Mary gave him a brand-new "Barlow" knife worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  Now, no doubt you know the names of all the twelve disciples.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  At the end of a long twelve or fifteen minutes the wheels stopped, and Tom slipped overboard and swam ashore in the dusk, landing fifty yards downstream, out of danger of possible stragglers.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  By and by they judged that twelve had come; they marked where the shadow fell, and began to dig.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  But the night remained clear, and Huck closed his watch and retired to bed in an empty sugar hogshead about twelve.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  The sum amounted to a little over twelve thousand dollars.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, about twelve mile above town, so people said.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III.
14  About twelve o'clock we turned out and went along up the bank.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
15  The river went on raising and raising for ten or twelve days, till at last it was over the banks.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Children aged twelve or under must be accompanied by an adult.
2  He was almost back to his belligerent mood of twelve months ago.
3  At the meeting they presented a detailed analysis of twelve schools in a London borough.
4  When the clock struck twelve, I switched off TV and went to bed.
5  I had twelve years of good education.
6  The finger of the clock points to twelve.
7  After twelve years, he decided to separate from the firm.
8  Be here by twelve o'clock at the latest.
9  Hotel guests are requested to vacate their rooms by twelve noon.
10  Mrs Murphy is blessed with twelve children.
11  I arrive at nine o'clock, teach until twelve thirty and then have a meal; that is my morning routine.
12  These regulations do not relate to children under the age of twelve.
13  You need a team of about twelve people to work a furnace this size.
14  The clock began to strike twelve.
15  The ranch employed ten or twelve cowboys.