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Example sentences for: sixteenth

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Amis' game is sixteenth notes or, in this case, a run through the candy store of American slang.
The Black Legend originated in the sixteenth century during the Protestant Reformation, with the beginnings of a rejection of Catholicism and abhorrence of the political and military power of Spain.
He seems to suggest that somehow we should fault the group of translators who produced the King James Version of the Bible, but, as we have seen, the confusion lies not so much with a group of sixteenth century English scholars as with the very nature of the art of translation.
The Spanish conquerors and colonists who settled New Mexico in the sixteenth century communicated to the indigenous communities a belief in witchcraft.
If we take a three-inch cannonball on a very hot day, compute its diameter on a very cold day (assuming a drop of 60° C.), and compare this to the contraction of brass for the same drop in temperature, while it is true that the cannonballs will have shrunken twice as much as the brass monkey , the difference for ten balls would be less than a sixteenth of an inch; the pile would not topple even if their diameters were twice as large.