Example sentences for: sixteenth

How can you use “sixteenth” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Amis' game is sixteenth notes or, in this case, a run through the candy store of American slang.

  • In paragraph three we are told that “the Dare family named the first white baby born in Virginia Virginia, not a conventional name in the late sixteenth century but hardly daring considering the religious association.

  • 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.

  • And it might be imagined that in giving directions to get to one's hovel, one would say, “Go to the fifth hovel, and mine is the next one,” for sixth did not come into being till the sixteenth century.

  • The early vaqueros, those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were mestizos, Indians, Negroes, and mulattos.


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