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sixteenth

The sixteenth thing is the one that is number sixteen (16) in order.

sixteenth

coming next after the fifteenth in position position 16 in a countable series of things (= one-sixteenth) one part in sixteen equal parts

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Simple sentences

The story goes back to the sixteenth century.
In Shakespeare's time, in the sixteenth century, tennis was very popular at the English court.
Today is my sixteenth birthday.
The vote took place on May sixteenth.
In the sixteenth century Turkish and Spanish pirates often encountered in Mediterranean Sea.
Tom is one-sixteenth Scottish and one-sixteenth English.

Movie subtitles

King Alabaster the Sixteenth.
Six foot six and seven-sixteenth inches.
The Princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her. But. before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. and die.
On this, her sixteenth birthday, the good fairies had planned a party. and something extra special for a surprise.
Sixteenth-century pop tunes.
I am in my sixteenth year.
Our friends will be able to wait until the sixteenth day.
And the sixteenth?
Merrill Island Mining, four and one-sixteenth, up one-eighth.
But you must understand, sir. Patton is a sixteenth-century man.
Sixteenth floor?
There are 16 people required for the sixteenth dock.
Time for the mile and sixteenth, one forty-four and one.
It's, uh, sixteenth century.
Six-foot-six and seven-sixteenth inches.
But. before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. she shall prick her finger. on the spindle of a spinning wheel. and die!
You and Forrester meet me at Sixteenth and Jefferson.
Only one-sixteenth parsec away, captain.
The mile and one-sixteenth handicap at Narragansett Park, Rhode Island.
Time for the mile and one-sixteenth.
Sixteenth-century play that comes to life like that?
In other words, we're going down to one-sixteenth of an inch high.
There've been no Earth colonists a sixteenth of an inch tall.
I'd say, just about a sixteenth of an inch close.
It's past my sixteenth birthday, Monsieur Bel Ami.
Today is her sixteenth birthday.
It's your sixteenth birthday.
But. before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. and die.
On the sixteenth day he is on the jetty at Orly.
Maurice Sceve, sixteenth century.
Sixteenth-century sonnets.
The sixteenth dock does not exist.
Sixteenth time, you bastard!

News and current affairs

But, after these restrictions were removed in the sixteenth century, and up until their extermination in the nineteenth century, the Janissaries became extremely powerful in Istanbul (and even established their own dynasty in Egypt).
The first has been around for centuries: the social divisions that trace their origins back to the European conquest over Native Americans in the sixteenth century.
In so doing, it is clear that India is ready to leave behind the problems of the sixteenth century as it takes its place in the twenty-first.
It is doubtful that the great expansion of intercontinental trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries would have been possible without the incentives that states provided, such as monopoly charters.
Creditors have known this since at least the sixteenth century, when Spain's King Philip II became the world's first known serial sovereign defaulter.
But, ever since the sixteenth century, the center has played the main role in shaping Russian history, and now looks to be no different.
This was true of Roman-Indian trade in the first and second centuries, and of the age of European exploration in the sixteenth century.
Prior to that, the last great Sunni-Shia battle in the Middle East involved near-constant war between the Sunni Ottoman Empire and Iran's Shia Safavid Empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
In the sixteenth century, Spain emerged as a superpower following its conquest of South America.
Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, has pointed out that great Indian rulers, such as Ashoka (third century BC) and Akbar (sixteenth century), advocated pluralism, tolerance, and reason long before the European Enlightenment.
Similarly, Spain ran persistent deficits in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, paid for by Andean silver.
Several new phenomena appeared in sixteenth-century England that revolutionized human experience.
Rato, by contrast, was Spain's finance minister during the country's best economic era since the sixteenth century.
The sixteenth-century Habsburgs borrowed - at very high interest rates - from Florentine, Genovese, and Augsburg merchants.
The arrival of silver from the New World in the sixteenth century triggered sustained inflation.
Who knows where the worlds' gold came from before its discovery in Latin America in the sixteenth century?
That story begins in 1923 with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, which, at its peak in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, controlled much of southeastern Europe, western Asia, and North Africa.
For a long time, blasphemy laws were considered an unfortunate legacy of efforts in England during the religious struggles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to suppress deviant interpretations of scripture among Christians.
Sixteenth-century Venice turned the wealth of the spice trade into the canvases of Titian and Tintoretto.
Russian-Polish suspicions and disagreements date back to the sixteenth century, when Poland was the far greater power; indeed, the Grand Duchy of Moscow was a backwater.
In fact, one might just as well set the accident in the sixteenth century, when the Habsburg Emperor hung on to the Southern Netherlands (today's Belgium) while the Protestant northern provinces broke away.

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