8 sentences with “twelve”

Every day, at twelve, the church called to prayer.

Jesus' followers, led by the twelve apostles, began to teach his lessons to others, and the new religion of Christianity was born.

Whitman killed twelve students and wounded thirty; not only that, but shortly before he had murdered his mother and stabbed his wife.

Until then, so little was known about Russia in the West that Louis XIV once sent a letter to a tsar who had been dead for twelve years.

After Solomon's death, ten of the twelve tribes broke away to form their own kingdom, retaining the name Israel, while the smaller remnant of the kingdom took the name Judah.

Hellenistic history in its simplest form is easy to summarise: a Macedonian king named Alexander conquered all the lands of the Persian Empire during twelve years of almost uninterrupted campaigning.

Current data (available from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, created and maintained by professional historians of the slave trade) suggests that more than twelve million people were enslaved and transported to the New World from the 16th to the early 19th century.

Although the early Hebrews were communalists, meaning that they shared most of the common property within their clans (referred to as the twelve "tribes" in the Hebrew Bible), conflicts with the Philistines, another coastal Canaanite people, led them to appoint a king, Saul, around 1020 BC.