Example Sentences

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We need to think about the world in terms of twelves!

From The New Yorker • Nov. 7, 2019

Six seeds are 86-50 against the elevens, fives are 89-47 against twelves, and once you get to fours vs. thirteens, you're in never gonna happen territory.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 18, 2019

Your teacher chants, “Twelve twelves, a hundred thirty-four.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2012

The biggest surprise came from New Zealand, which entered two innovative boats built not of wood or aluminum like traditional twelves but of fiber glass, prompting an instant nickname: plastic fantastics.

From Time Magazine Archive

They never mentioned Petra’s dream, Calder’s problem-solving, Charles Fort, the twelves, or the blue ones.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett