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'sixteen' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'sixteen' with 14 example sentences.


sixteen adjective

: being one more than fifteen

sixteen noun

: the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one


  • I'll be sixteen on my next birthday.
  • "How old are you?" "I'm sixteen."
  • Eight plus eight is sixteen.
  • I've been working since I was sixteen years old.
  • Only sixteen percent of the teachers at the school are female.
  • I was sixteen years younger than him.
  • We are the same age. We are both sixteen years old.
  • Those boys are sixteen years old.
  • When I was sixteen, I played tennis for the first time.
  • When he was forty years old, he could speak sixteen languages.
  • Emily left school at sixteen.
  • Brazil hosts the Summer Olympics in twenty sixteen.
  • She read the book once when she was sixteen.
  • Linda is sixteen, but had no trouble passing for twenty.
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