sixteen

[US]/sɪks'tiːn/
[UK]/ˌsɪks'tin/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. the number equivalent to the sum of ten and six; a quantity or group of sixteen people or things.

Phrases & Collocations

sixteen years old

sixteen days

sweet sixteen

sixteen candles

sixteen people

sixteen hours

Example Sentences

a sixteen-foot stop.

she bore sixteen daughters.

sixteen of our eighteen patients.

at sixteen he converted to Catholicism.

he debauched sixteen schoolgirls.

an increase from sixteen to eighteen clubs.

at the age of sixteen he left home.

sixteen miles east of Dublin.

a girl of sixteen or seventeen summers.

the course lasts sixteen weeks.

a huge sixteen-wheeler truck.

sixteen years of age 16

Compulsory schooling ends at sixteen.

She was sixteen and sweetly innocent.

the federation included sixteen autonomous republics.

He was scarcely sixteen when he joined the army.

When he was sixteen he joined a religious sect.

the party was ousted from power after sixteen years.

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