Sixteen in example sentence

In 1864, during experiments on fishing by electric light in the middle of the North Sea, glass panes less than seven millimeters thick were seen to resist a pressure of sixteen atmospheres, all the while letting through strong, heat-generating rays whose warmth was unevenly distributed.

More example sentences with word sixteen

So my mom abandoned us when I was sixteen years old.

CA: Sixteen years ago, you became employee number seven at SpaceX, and then over the next years, you somehow built a multi-billion-dollar relationship with NASA, despite the fact that SpaceX's first three launches blew up.

Sixteen years later, you'd probably say the opposite.

I think I must have read every single Mills & Boon romance published before I was sixteen.

All example sentences