SIXTEENTH in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for SIXTEENTH, such as:
1. My new house is on the sixteenth floor.
2. Tom is one of the seers in the sixteenth century.
3. The city won its liberty in the sixteenth century.
4. Copper has been mined here since the sixteenth century.
5. the latter part of the sixteenth century, sung to the tune.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SIXTEENTH
sixteenth
 n.  one part in sixteen equal parts
 a.  coming next after the fifteenth in position
Classic Sentence:
1  The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else having fallen prostrate around it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
2  And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the fact of the sixteenth century.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
3  He gained just twelve hours by this engagement; he was to be back on the sixteenth day, by eight o'clock in the evening.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
4  The lackeys were sent on before with the baggage, and they set out on the morning of the sixteenth.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 60 IN FRANCE
5  the latter part of the sixteenth century, sung to the tune.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  I am delighted to hear you are prepared to leave Venice on the sixteenth.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  He had told her that after the sixteenth he could not be responsible for what might happen.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IX
8  "correspondency" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQ...
Example Sentence:
1  The city won its liberty in the sixteenth century.
2  The big bell in the Temple of Reclining Buddha was recast in the sixteenth century.
3  We're studying dramatic texts by sixteenth century playwrights.
4  We have some extant parish records from the sixteenth century.
5  Copper has been mined here since the sixteenth century.
6  My new house is on the sixteenth floor.
7  Tom is one of the seers in the sixteenth century.