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.

  • Variants of this play have been collected in Texas, New Mexico, and California, and it has been performed in Mexico since the sixteenth century.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In the sixteenth century, an Elizabethan courtier, Sir John Harrington, invented a water-closet with a flushing system and wrote a book on the subject entitled A Metamorphosis of Ajax, published in 1596.


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