Examples of “sixteenth” in a Sentence

adj Coming after the fifteenth in a sequence; 16th.

• This is the sixteenth time I have read this book.
• She finished sixteenth in the race, but she was proud of herself.
• Today is her sixteenth birthday.

noun One of sixteen equal parts of something.

• Add a sixteenth of a teaspoon of salt to the mixture.
• He cut the board and used only one sixteenth of it.
• Each slice is a sixteenth of the whole pie.
• A sixteenth of 320 is 20.