How to use "sixteen" in a sentence

Eight and eight is sixteen

Sixteen and sixteen is..

But when I was thirteen, I grew six inches in six months! And by the time I was sixteen, I was bigger and heavier than all the other boys in the school.

At sixteen she married a miner named Davies, who was killed in an explosion in the mines

There was, however, still a trace of beauty in the sixteen-year-old lace, like pale sunlight beneath the thick clouds of a winter's dawn

Chapter sixteen

Jaborski, the scoutmaster, had taken other groups of scouts on winter survival hikes every year for sixteen years, and no one had been even slightly injured

Every winter for sixteen years, he had taken a group of scouts to northern Nevada, beyond Reno, into the High Sierras, on a seven-day wilderness survival excursion.

He was so good that he could safely take young boys into the Sierras for sixteen years, a challenge a lot of other winter survival experts wouldn't touch

The one from which the cover painting had been drawn was sixteen pages long

All I know is that during the fourteen or sixteen - or seven thousand - months that we worked together, through countless story meetings in the development executive's office, I was never sure that any of my writing confreres had read the complete novel that he or she was adapting - or understood what had been read

His cheerfulness rather upset me, but death means very little to a boy of sixteen.

One hundred and sixteen were now in position, mainly covering London

Around the mouth were sixteen thin, whip-like tentacles, arranged in two groups of eight

But - it's only been sixteen days and your hair is grey.' He looked over his shoulder suddenly

In 2018, a woman was president or prime minister in sixteen countries.

Valentina left school when she was sixteen and worked at a factory, but she continued her education in the evenings

Loveness Mudzuru and Ruvimbo Tsopodzi were two young women from Zimbabwe who were married to men when they were sixteen years old

The law was bad, they said - the lowest age for boys to marry was eighteen, but the lowest age for girls was sixteen.