Sentence examples for set a dozen from inspiring English sources

The blast made a three-foot-deep crater in the pavement and set a dozen cars ablaze.

More ingeniously, Mr. Linkletter set a dozen balls adrift in the Pacific, announcing a $1,000 prize for the first person to find one.

When Aaron Copland set a dozen Emily Dickinson poems, he couched them in a musical language that was identifiably his own and of his time.

Plumes of smoke turned clear skies a somber gray after warplanes struck a fuel-storage tank at the refinery and fighters set a dozen tires on fire in a futile attempt to provide cover.

Then the world's richest horse, who had set a dozen records over six distances at eight tracks, he spent his final seven years siring "little Biscuits" and being visited by thousands of fans, ensconced in the red clapboard stud barn that is now being restored by the Rotary Club of Willits.

During the set, a dozen dancers and musicians in teal space-togas danced purposefully hokey, choreographed routines full of same-sex makeouts and cat-claw hand gestures, reminding festival goers that music is art and vice versa.

Rodgers could set a half-dozen records this season, only to see them broken, possibly by himself, in just a year or two.

His performance, with a full stage set, a half-dozen dancers, and lasers shooting out into the night sky, was both impressively overblown and hermetic: it could have been taking place anywhere.

They shot mostly outdoors, and had to set up a dozen sets without any power to complete the project.

Over the summer, we set a couple of dozen creative students the task of describing the risk from climate change, as framed in the most recent IPCC and MIT reports.

Turkey's top court on Thursday ruled that two jailed journalists be released, local media reported, a decision lawyers said could set a precedent for dozens of other reporters jailed in a widespread crackdown under President Tayyip Erdogan.