SIXTEEN in a Sentence

Learn SIXTEEN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

75 example sentences for SIXTEEN, such as:

1. Five and eleven add up to sixteen.
2. He was sixteen now and in the Home Guard.
3. This whale averages some sixteen or eighteen feet in length.
4. They acted as if she were one of themselves and not a day over sixteen.
5. Suddenly she felt sixteen again and happy, a little breathless and excited.

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 Meanings and Examples of SIXTEEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sixteen
 a.  being one more than fifteen
 n.  the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  "Mother was only fifteen when she married you, and I'm sixteen," said Scarlett, her voice muffled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  At sixteen, thanks to Mammy and Ellen, she looked sweet, charming and giddy, but she was, in reality, self-willed, vain and obstinate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  They acted as if she were one of themselves and not a day over sixteen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  Would you believe it, this very morning he said to Mary--and she's only sixteen: 'Now, Missy.'
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  Because she hated herself, she hated them all with the fury of the thwarted and humiliated love of sixteen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  He was sixteen now and in the Home Guard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  Drogheda was in sixteen hundred and something and Mr. O'Hara couldn't possibly have been alive then.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  Shoulder to shoulder with their elders came the young boys, none of them looking over sixteen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  In addition, bevies of belles from the country districts, where all remaining men were under sixteen or over sixty, descended upon the town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  Suddenly she felt sixteen again and happy, a little breathless and excited.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
13  I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
14  This whale averages some sixteen or eighteen feet in length.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
15  The creature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn averages five feet, though some exceed ten, and even attain to fifteen feet.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
Example Sentence:
1  Along with a devoted team of sixteen full-time staffers and several volunteers, they now nourish kids in seventy Toronto daycares.
2  So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock.
3  It was twelve foot wide and about fifteen or sixteen foot long, and the top stood above water six or seven inches -- a solid, level floor.
4  Five and eleven add up to sixteen.
5  The female bird incubates the eggs for about sixteen days while the male brings food.
6  A student over sixteen reckons as two under eleven in the calculation of school building costs.