Example Sentences

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A Harvard Medical School lecturer, she worries that lavish ultrasound parties will lead to extravagant first birthday parties, sweet sixteens and weddings as parents try to one-up themselves.

From Washington Times • May 15, 2016

Don’t give him all the page sixteens when you come back.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Our sixteens were at our side, too jammed between us and the walls of the hole to use.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

I find myself standing in a clump of sixteens from the Seam.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

She shoots all kinds of parties and events—weddings, bar mitzvahs, quinceaneras, graduations, anniversaries, sweet sixteens.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner