How to Use twelve in a Sentence
twelve
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Cinderella’s not the only one who needs to dance with a prince before the clock strikes twelve.
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Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
11 Apr. 2026
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Toronto was already in full celebration mode before the clock struck twelve.
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Ime Ekpo,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Workers boxed together two-by-twelves as forms and poured concrete, raising a tower 65 feet above the flat Eastern Plains.
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Kevin Strong,
CBS News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Now, after over a year of back-and-forth negotiating by conferences on what the right amount of teams should be if the CFP were to have expanded, that number increases by twelve.
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Trey Wallace Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
17 Oct. 2026
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Pok, who had applied to all twelve, had his heart set on the Shepherd School of Medicine at MacArthur Hospital, just up the street from his and his father's apartment, where East Harlem met the Upper East Side.
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Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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