Collocations for "sixteen"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "sixteen" in context.
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sixteen
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [almost, nearly, roughly, exactly] sixteen
- [a maximum, a minimum, an average] of sixteen
- [multiplied, divided] by sixteen
- the square root of sixteen
- sixteen going on seventeen
- started [learning, playing, competing] at the age of sixteen
- an age range of sixteen to [twenty]
- wears a size sixteen
- has gone down to a size sixteen
- we're in room sixteen
- learn to drive at sixteen
- just turned sixteen
- is turning sixteen [tomorrow, this year]
- sweet sixteen
- sixteen [years, months, minutes]
- costs sixteen [dollars, euros, pounds]
- weighs sixteen [kilos, grams, ounces, tons]
- measures sixteen [miles, feet, meters, inches]
- [drove, ran, walked] sixteen [miles]
- is sixteen [miles] [long, deep, out]
- is sixteen [miles] from [home, the airport, the city center]
- is sixteen years [old, of age]
- sixteen per cent of the [members, population, patients]
- the album has sixteen [tracks, songs]
- there are sixteen different [dressings, toppings, options]
- [joined, started, enlisted] at sixteen
- were sixteen (of them) in [total, all]
- size sixteen [shoes, clothes, sneakers]
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