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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 Christian Church, nevertheless, chose to latch on to the concept of the Virgin Birth long before the sixteenth century ( cf . Tertullian, who lived c. 160-240 A.D.) in any case, and we do not know whether the use of Isaiah 7:14 was to justify an already extant belief with a text, or whether it was to take an already accepted text and graft its meaning, as was then understood, upon the events of the Annunciation to Mary.
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.
'" In the same Chicken Little spirit, the WP lead delays until the sixteenth paragraph the news that the day also saw the release of strong figures on the U.S. labor market and on housing starts.
Variants of this play have been collected in Texas, New Mexico, and California, and it has been performed in Mexico since the sixteenth century.