sixteen
IPA: sɪkstˈin
noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one
adjective
- being one more than fifteen
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Examples of "sixteen" in Sentences
- The average workday is sixteen hours.
- He matriculated at the age of sixteen.
- The age of entering the University was sixteen.
- George died from typhoid at the age of sixteen.
- Edward is in fact sixteen at the end of the series.
- He was in the Justice of the Peace for sixteen years.
- Her mother was desirous that it be reduced to sixteen inches.
- The demand age for prostitution is the tender age of sixteen.
- KIM: Being sixteen is officially the worst thing I have ever been.
- Sixteen pupils supervise and oversee the remainder of the prefects.
- At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to the skipper of a coastal vessel.
- Taken together that means that he will set the mission to get out in sixteen months.
- It matured in sixteen months in that climate, and I was ready, just ready and no more, with the mill for the grinding.
- Today is the first time in sixteen years that I've watched a presidential inauguration, and I am genuinely glad that I did.
- Mick Zais did what no Republican has been able to do in sixteen years on Tuesday – capture the S.C. Superintendent of Education office.
- Few would expect him to get out in sixteen months and endanger US security just as few would expect him to stay longer if we can get out and endanger the US economy.
- Only one in sixteen child molesters is ever convicted, 85% of abuse is carried out by adults known to the children, and some figures estimate over 80% goes unreported.
- He will however listen to the advise of his military staff and if they can not see a way out in sixteen months without being careless then he will modify his directive.
- Success has not been limited to this country: she is now published in sixteen other countries - with contracts for books to be published in two others - and has been in the bestseller lists of both Germany and Greece.
- After her astounding success with The Merry Widow, Elsie performed in sixteen more musical comedies, including The Dollar Princess in 1909; as “Franzi” in A Waltz Dream; and as “Angèle” in The Count of Luxembourg, both in 1911.