Synonym: 16, XVI, xvi. Similar words: teen, teens, canteen, preteen, fourteen, fifteen, teenage, eighteen. Meaning: [‚sɪks'tɪːn] n. the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one. adj. being one more than fifteen.
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121. Sixteen percent of the patients with left sided colitis developed malignant strictures compared with 31% of the patients with universal colitis.
122. She was about sixteen the first time, closer to twenty the next, and the years had not reduced her girth.
123. Sixteen tomato plants are grown on a greenhouse bench in two rows of eight.
124. My grandmother said they forgot because they were afraid to remember. 15 My grandmother died suddenly when I was almost sixteen.
125. Rocky O'Rourke, in the cab of his big sixteen wheeler, was parked about twenty yards north of the gates.
126. Last year Thames Valley police cautioned or prosecuted sixteen hundred and seventy-three people possessing controlled drugs.
127. I am trying to get a sighting of them eating cornflakes and drinking twelve - fourteen - sixteen nineteen bottles of wine.
128. The soothsayer interprets the position of sixteen nuts thrown on to the tray, which is covered with a thin layer of sawdust.
129. It contains sixteen basic rules, which include some for overall control and some which collect data.
130. When he was sixteen Alan got a job as a messenger boy in an advertising agency.
131. At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away.
132. At the age of sixteen,[Sentencedict] he was abducted from his hometown of Kilpatrick and enslaved in Ireland.
133. I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers.
134. Sixteen of us flew into Delhi - and a fifteen hour bus journey took us up into the mountains.
135. Still only sixteen, it looked as if acting would become the career for which Crawford had hoped.
136. He rose rapidly through the ranks and by sixteen had reached the highest position in the gang hierarchy.
137. My parents never gave me a penny after I turned sixteen.
138. On the other hand, it was something akin to a blanket death sentence for the free-flowing rivers in sixteen states.
139. Hughes has launched two Ku-band satellites each containing sixteen 120-watt transponders.
140. A man called Bukhari went around after Muhammad died and spent sixteen years compiling his collection.
141. Gwendolen returns to Offendene, the country mansion which has been her home since she was sixteen.
142. Thenwhen he was sixteen or so-his last year in high school-he seemed to lose his footing.
143. Sixteen standing commissions were also created to advise on domestic and foreign affairs.
144. Sixteen jurors were dismissed Monday after Dortch-Okara and the attorneys reviewed their answers.
145. For this purpose it was not necessary for me to stay on at school after I was sixteen and attend university.
146. Sixteen months later, in January 1858. the first tenants were already in their new farmhouses.
147. Even with a mysterious ex-lover who had turned up out of the blue after more than sixteen years' absence.
148. He was educated at the City of London School, leaving at the age of sixteen as head boy.
149. She was sixteen and went to the movies with a schoolfriend.
150. He kept a chapel with four priests and sixteen choristers at Rye House, at a cost of £100 a year.
More similar words: teen, teens, canteen, preteen, fourteen, fifteen, teenage, eighteen, thirteen, teenager, private enterprise, fourteenth amendment, sixty, sixth, fixture, mixture, sixth sense, extend, extent, extended, external, exterior, dexterous, extenuate, extempore, extention, dexterity, extensive, extension, overextend.