sixteen
noun
six·teen
ˌsik-ˈstēn 
ˈsiks-ˌtēn
: a number that is one more than 15 see Table of Numbers
sixteen
adjective
sixteen
pronoun, plural in construction
Examples of sixteen in a Sentence
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Cyclones trying to make a sweet sixteen for the 7th time.
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Pueng Vongs, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
Flying up sixteens over out of Homestead Air Force Base in Florida back in the early '90s, struck by lightning, caught on fire, ejected and spent about 15 minutes in Everglades before I got picked up by Coast Guard helicopter.
—ABC News, 28 Jan. 2024
In the first season, half-human, half-witch Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka, Mad Men) turns sweet sixteen (on Halloween, of course).
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2020
By next year, given current policies and potential future energy-market dynamics, the U.S. will have reduced national greenhouse-gas emissions thirteen-to-sixteen per cent below 2005 levels—not the seventeen per cent that seemed modest back in 2009.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
Beneath the game that gives the novel its plot, Raskin built a narrative substructure that consists of the intersecting identity crises experienced by the sixteen—sixteen!
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
The pilot episode opens just before half-human, half-witch Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka, Mad Men) turns sweet sixteen (on Halloween, of course).
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2018
Bocas, founded in Doral in 2014, had to overcome particularly tough matchups, first in the sweet sixteen against the quickly expanding Ceviche 105 and then against longtime Miami favorite Big Cheese to represent the Local Faves region.
—Carlos Frías, miamiherald, 3 Apr. 2018
Days after Gerber’s sweet sixteen on September 3, the soon-to-be jetsetting model made a trip to the DMV to get her driver’s license.
—Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 9 Oct. 2017
Pueng Vongs, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
Flying up sixteens over out of Homestead Air Force Base in Florida back in the early '90s, struck by lightning, caught on fire, ejected and spent about 15 minutes in Everglades before I got picked up by Coast Guard helicopter.
—ABC News, 28 Jan. 2024
In the first season, half-human, half-witch Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka, Mad Men) turns sweet sixteen (on Halloween, of course).
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2020
By next year, given current policies and potential future energy-market dynamics, the U.S. will have reduced national greenhouse-gas emissions thirteen-to-sixteen per cent below 2005 levels—not the seventeen per cent that seemed modest back in 2009.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
Beneath the game that gives the novel its plot, Raskin built a narrative substructure that consists of the intersecting identity crises experienced by the sixteen—sixteen!
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
The pilot episode opens just before half-human, half-witch Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka, Mad Men) turns sweet sixteen (on Halloween, of course).
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2018
Bocas, founded in Doral in 2014, had to overcome particularly tough matchups, first in the sweet sixteen against the quickly expanding Ceviche 105 and then against longtime Miami favorite Big Cheese to represent the Local Faves region.
—Carlos Frías, miamiherald, 3 Apr. 2018
Days after Gerber’s sweet sixteen on September 3, the soon-to-be jetsetting model made a trip to the DMV to get her driver’s license.
—Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 9 Oct. 2017
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sixteen
noun
six·teen
(ˈ)sik-ˈstēn
: a number that is one more than 15 see number
sixteen
adjective or pronoun
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