| 单词 | sixteen |
| 例句 | One rack with sixteen copper pots and pans hanging over a woodblock table. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A mouth yawned in the cliff, and it was that Davos steered for, as he had sixteen years before. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The hedge had grown wild in the sixteen years since Hagrid had taken Harry from the rubble that lay scattered amongst the waist-high grass. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There are about forty of us now, aged six through sixteen, representing a range of ability to control our limbs and our voices. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When it was my turn, I said, “My name is Hazel. I’m sixteen. Thyroid with mets in my lungs. I’m okay.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Son, if you can save the money by the time you turn sixteen, your mother and I will sell you this car. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A plump woman outside an Apothecary was shaking her head as they passed, saying, “Dragon liver, sixteen Sickles an ounce, they’re mad....” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “If the final battle does come when Percy is sixteen, at least we have two more years to figure something out.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Once, the Durham White Supremacy Club sponsored a parade float with sixteen young women dressed in virginal white and sporting banners with the slogan “Protect us with your vote.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When the clerk asked for Wisconsin's vote, the head of the state's delegation stood up and announced two votes for Grant, two votes for Blaine...and sixteen votes for Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The fact that I’d competed and placed in the top sixteen was a great start. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He could not have been any older than sixteen, yet he was even taller than his father, almost seven feet of legs and shins and elbows, a gangling, gawky boy with a cowlick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The hallway falls even more still, if possible, and from sixteen floors below us a siren whirs past, and you can practically hear the flap of a pigeon’s wings from outside the window. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Including me, there are twenty-three of us between the ages of six and sixteen. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “For example, just by looking at it I can tell this room is twenty-two feet long and sixteen feet wide.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z When she tried on her new outfit, Mama and Sissy swore that she looked sixteen except for her hair. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Renly's young queen was no more than fifteen, sixteen, he seemed to recall . . . older than Joffrey, but a few years were nothing, it was so neat and sweet he could taste it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z These seem to occur about sixteen times a month and to be roughly uniformly distributed in direction across the sky. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I can tell that I’m skinnier because the thin gold bracelet I’ve been wearing since I turned sixteen now slips down my hand. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I was sixteen, an orphan in Siberia, but I knew. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z At sixteen, Gustavus, who went by the name G.F., set his sights on the big city of Boston. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “He said he would hire me as his assistant when I turn sixteen.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “That’s because he is sixteen and has no idea what lies in store! Why, Severus? Why my son? It is too dangerous! This is vengeance for Lucius’s mistake, I know it!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He never missed a chance to let you know you were sixteen and he was eighteen. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “They had adopted a lot of children with disabilities, and had a total of sixteen kids.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z When I thought about what I would have done when I was sixteen years old or nineteen or even twenty-four, I was scared to realize that I might have run. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I stared out over my new digs: Six one-story buildings, each with sixteen dorm rooms, were arranged in a hexagram around a large circle of grass. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z They were about sixteen years old and they wore white duck trousers and fancy rayon polo shirts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When Red Team’s surprise attack was over, sixteen American ships lay at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Sixteen paces to the water fountain, sixteen back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Soon it became brighter than Venus, and was briefly visible even by daylight, and then it slowly faded away over the course of sixteen months. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Khouy, who is only sixteen, does not want to, but Pa says he must to stay out of the Khmer Rouge army. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1980, according to the article, sixteen Danish seamen issued a Mayday call, donned life jackets, and jumped into the North Sea as their vessel sank beneath them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z And then a boy who looks about fifteen or sixteen comes up to me and holds out his hand and shyly asks, “Excuse me, senorita. Will you dance with me?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the next sixteen minutes, they did everything they could to make sure it wasn’t all over. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They were wrapped in blankets and guided below, where they were given a hot drink and abruptly dropped dead—all sixteen of them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He was sixteen; he’d been away at college for almost a year, so you couldn’t really call him a child anymore. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His newest wife, a pale frail girl of sixteen years, walked beside his litter when they carried him in. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Bob was one of sixteen blacks who first integrated his high school in Mount Gilead, North Carolina, where my father was bom. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, the Federal Republic of Germany is a thriving democracy with a federation of sixteen states. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A merchant marine officer named Frank Worsley, a part-Maori New Zealander who had been a sailor since the age of sixteen, was to captain the ship. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Harmonics three and four; six and eight; nine and twelve; twelve and sixteen; and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They were eighteen and sixteen when they walked down the aisle in Vegas, told each other “I do.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Who are they, and how did their lives touch Westing's, these sixteen strangers whose only connection with one another was Sunset Towers? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “That part was all right. But saying we were sixteen, we had to be sixteen, and you treat us like thirteen-year-old children.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, and according to the ancient prophecy, I was going to die when I turned sixteen—which happened to be in five days, the exact same time Typhon was supposed to hit New York. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It isn’t until I pop open the glove box that I find salvation—well, at least sixteen ounces of it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The bribes, which would undoubtedly have been gleaned from the enormous resources of the church in Alexandria, were said to include some 1,500 pounds of gold—worth about sixteen million dollars in 2007. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Though I have lived only sixteen years, I have known a lifetime of sorrow. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z How had she worn that stupid thing for sixteen years? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z At least Bags was wearing number sixteen and I got to keep the eleven, so everyone knew who the real left wing was. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Nick Farthing was twelve, but he could pass—and did sometimes—for sixteen: a large boy with a crooked smile, and little imagination. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “No. Sometimes if a child is really badly behaved, they take them in. They never get out till they’re sixteen. They never see their parents again.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Then would come six or seven pretty good years of twelve to sixteen inches of rain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The naiad looked like a girl of about sixteen, with full lips and a profusion of golden hair swirling about a face shaped like a valentine. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It didn’t become Halley’s comet until 1758, some sixteen years after his death. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Not at all. You are sixteen now, quite old enough to be my confidant, and my experience will be useful to you by-and-by, perhaps, in your own affairs of this sort.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z And then she said the words that her parents had dreaded hearing for the past sixteen years, ever since the day Grace had been born. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Their children quit school at sixteen and go into the army, the jails, the state hospitals; when troubled times come, they join the Klan and do the rabble-rousing for the middle class. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In my reflection, I see a narrow face, wide, round eyes, and a long, thin nose—I still look like a little girl, though sometime in the last few months I turned sixteen. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z One time they switched me from the night shift to the day shift, so I worked sixteen hours straight. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He started counting them down, “Nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen ... Twenty, nineteen ...” Each time he hit fifteen he reset back to twenty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z One veteran on board was Gilbert de la O. It had been sixteen tough years since he’d returned from Vietnam in 1966, and he wasn’t going to miss the dedication for anything. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Somewhere around the boring part where the guy named Rolf and the oldest daughter are singing You are sixteen, going on seventeen, Jack nudged me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z One time Papá told us how he had joined the Cristero Revolt in 1926, when he was sixteen, and had been wounded in the knee and thrown in jail for six months. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z After two hundred and sixteen rings, I thought I’d seen it all. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z "Has he been mad at you for the last sixteen years?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The boy was about fifteen or sixteen, with shaggy dark hair. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Other common determiners include articles, as in the cat and this boy; quantifiers, as in some nights and all people; and numbers, as in sixteen tons. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When he woke up, after eating sixteen raw eggs, he went directly to Catarino's store, where his monumental size provoked a panic of curiosity among the women. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z After just three dates, the two of us, sixteen years old at the time, decided to get more acquainted one sunny afternoon at the previously mentioned spot on the bank of the White River. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z It hadn't even occurred to me, but she was right I had turned sixteen this morning—the same morning I’d made the choice to give Luke the knife. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The first sixteen kids who opened the door got an invite to their finale. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z When he saw his partner of sixteen years stretched out in the coffin, Kenneth’s eyes welled up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Charles left home at sixteen, but he couldn't hold a job or support himself. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z What did you say to one another at the end of sixteen years’ solid dislike? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Suspecting Moishe had connections to anarchist groups in Chicago and had helped assassinate Mr. Katz, despite only being sixteen, the police put out a manhunt for him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Sparrow had just turned sixteen, and Ruby would in a few more months. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She was sixteen then, but the last time I was at the farm must have been years earlier. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was sixteen, his mother was able to get him out. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z During one 1920s season at the old Tijuana track, former rider Bill Buck remembered, the two oldest riders were just sixteen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Meantime, Caroline had prepared an assortment of sixteen saucers, cups, and bowls, rationing out the cans of tuna fish to each container. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time he was fifteen or sixteen, he was beating me regularly. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several girls of sixteen, voluptuous, happy creatures who thought school something of a holiday from chopping cotton and feeding livestock. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He also looked older than sixteen, but it didn’t suit him like it did David. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Only sixteen and she already has a baby. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z At sixteen, she still insisted on having him come to her at night, sit on her bed, exchange a few pleasantries, and plant a kiss on her lips. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Different how? I know girls who were strapped at sixteen, seventeen, who had to do foul stuff just to survive.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z How could I be turning sweet sixteen in just a few days and be a student at Central High, I thought as I entered the side door of the school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Admission to either branch of the Party is by examination, taken at the age of sixteen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Here was a girl sixteen years old; six years younger than he. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a pair of silver-backed brushes his mother had given him when he was sixteen, engraved with his initials, the abbreviated degree designation of a doctor. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z There were soldiers trying to move away from the forward sights of a sixteen. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She looks again at me, and then again and again, until by the end of lunch, I’ve caught her looking at me nearly sixteen times. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Police escorts formed a wedge at the front of the procession as the marchers began down Pennsylvania Avenue, followed by sixteen mounted officers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z That he had attended a seminary until he was sixteen. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I also didn’t know how much dye we could get for fifty-seven dollars and sixteen cents. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “If you were sorry you wouldn’t be driving that vehicle down my roads until you turned sixteen.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He even nailed some pretty dense math problems like, “Find the least common multiple of six, eight, and sixteen.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Tourists waved at them from fifteen or sixteen rows of balconies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My aunt was sixteen then and promised she would help raise the baby. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry “Native passes” issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1937, she placed sixth in a long-distance air race that called for sixteen hours of flying in a single day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Of the twenty-six physicians who made up the College, only sixteen appeared. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z And I guess that’s what caused us a problem, for when I got to be sixteen I had in my mind how I wanted to do things too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a tumultuous time in American politics—sixteen months earlier, the Ohio National Guard had killed four students at an antiwar rally at Kent State University. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At sixteen he was too young to get in, so he lied about his age and got himself a voter’s registration card saying he was eighteen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They might work sixteen hours a day without pay, expecting only the food they ate and the straw mats they slept on. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a volcano nearly sixteen miles high, and it takes up more square mileage than the entire state of Oregon. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The photographer flipped the monitor around for us to see the portrait, and I was no longer seeing myself as a boy, but a young man—fifteen, maybe even sixteen. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I could not believe I was now going to the table of sixteen. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “B sixteen!” he says, rushing to a window to stare at the plane parked outside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Of the ninety women left on board, sixteen had died during that storm. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The meter reads sixteen miles hauled today, but we are not more than eight miles in a straight line from last night’s camp. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z As the youngest, still only sixteen, I was the obvious choice. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He tells me about his family—how there was some kind of dispute, and his brother killed his father when Mr. Grote was sixteen and he ran away from home and never went back. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He was a little older than me, about sixteen. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Approximately sixteen hours before Mr. Muleman’s boat was set on fire.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I imagine him as one of those men who stop somewhere around sixteen. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is about more than taking a stand, okay? If you can believe it, I still remember what it was like to be sixteen. All those emotions,” she said, waving a hand. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Despite the deaths of recent years, only two of the sixteen members of Williams’s party wore safety helmets or other protective gear. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She was said to keep sixteen, and anyone who had ever been as close as her front door would have sworn by the smell that there were at least that many and more. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom Riddle had been at Hogwarts fifty years ago, yet here he stood, a weird, misty light shining about him, not a day older than sixteen. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It was a single massive room the size of the chapel at church, with a vaulted ceiling that rose some sixteen feet into the air. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I almost woke him, but then I decided that I was sixteen years old and could make up my own mind. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Although she was only fourteen, she and her mother agreed that she could pass for sixteen easily. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere between that time, between sixteen and nineteen, the nervousness had turned to a kind of nausea that he would dream about in the early hours of the morning. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time they stopped talking I had printed sixteen words. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “This has been on my dressing table for thirteen years, Bud, ever since your mother was sixteen years old. Now it belongs to you.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Dinka boys of fifteen or sixteen must go through an intense ritual of initiation. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s her birthday today. She looks sixteen. She is sixteen.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He had not seen her since he was sixteen years old, until a year before the birth of his son, when she appeared in his city. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z For my first Junior Olympics, I had a goal for myself to make it into the top sixteen. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Not sixteen, not sixty, not even a hundred, but a thousand years old. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I will be sixteen on my next one, about three weeks from now. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Aside from them both being sixteen, they had very little in common. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I worked sixteen hours a day and had never been happier in my life. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d been sixteen when war broke out, and living in Leningrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The grove had been sprayed with parathion some two and a half weeks earlier; the residues that reduced them to retching, half-blind, semiconscious misery were sixteen to nineteen days old. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Among the sixteen official communiques sent on the thirtieth of April, 1944, is a missive to Berlin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He was about fifteen or sixteen years old. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been slashed sixteen times by mighty boars, and his legs had white weals of shiny flesh that stretched right up to his ribs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, at dinner, Papa said we would recite sixteen different novenas. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “It paid off! I graduated high school at sixteen. But, then, one year shy of an MBA...” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The cockpit was oppressively cramped, forcing pilot and copilot to live cheek by jowl for missions as long as sixteen hours. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z But one day, just before I turned sixteen, she said, “All right, Simone, if you win Worlds this year, you can get your belly pierced.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Sirius Black showed he was capable of murder at the age of sixteen,” he breathed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Finally, after sixteen of the most frightening days of our lives, we were all together again. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The most recent of these, shining brightly over sixteen years’ worth of magical graffiti, all said similar things. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He was tall and skinny and looked barely sixteen. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Tristran had stood his first watch on the wall when he was sixteen years old. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I was sixteen and I had worked so hard to keep things going and now I was going to die. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Each year, about sixteen thousand wild monkeys are imported into the United States from the tropical regions of the earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I might have wished for sixteen crayons instead of eight, but even when I was little, I never wished for a thousand crayons, because I knew a thousand different crayons did not exist. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “The hardest part of running sixteen miles a day is dealing with your annoying brother after running sixteen miles a day.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The letter confirmed that I was among the last sixteen students selected to go to Central High. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But the real shock was the sixteen other cellmates we found here. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that the next child of the Big Three gods—Zeus, Poseidon, or Hades^—who turned sixteen was prophesied to either save or destroy Mount Olympus. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She may have been only sixteen, but Claudette had more experience than anyone else when it came to challenging Jim Crow on the Montgomery buses. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The red skirts were the size of a tent, and her bodice was so tightly bound that Celaena wondered if her waist were any more than sixteen inches. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Shannon was so fly, all the older dudes would try to get at her until they found out she was only sixteen. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Peewee was at the far end of the hut toward the wood line trying to get his sixteen to work. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For part of the journey, the smugglers pack her and sixteen other migrants into the back of a truck. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In this Interzonal, the time limit was forty moves in two and a half hours and sixteen moves per hour thereafter. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The last time I saw Bas: He was seventeen, I was sixteen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Pima was sixteen, I think. And she was older than me...” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She herself had rarely so much as held a coin in her hand, and for sixteen years she had never questioned the costly and beautiful things that surrounded her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z At that moment, he spotted a plank, a foot wide and sixteen feet long, floating in the sideyard. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Though the Crepuscule was armed with but sixteen guns, the noise of their detonation was great, and as we labored to stand in the darkness, cannon blasts quaked the whole ship from strake to stringer. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z By the time his case reached the Supreme Court, sixteen people had been killed by police use of the chokehold, twelve of them black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So handsome that, even though he wasn’t sixteen years old yet, women turned to look after him with a sigh when he walked down the street. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z By the time Dad woke up from the nap he was taking, Scoob had listened to the message sixteen times. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z “If they eliminate the loser of each pairing, then that leaves the sixteen trainees that move on to the next tryout.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She was sixteen, living alone with her father. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She grew up in Manhattan, Kansas, where she got her first phone when she was sixteen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “And,” she continues, “you know, I got a tattoo when I was only sixteen, and I smoked through high school.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z When he was sixteen we had a battle. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point there had been sixteen others, but some of them chose not to participate because of the threats of violence. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She used to speak like that to her sometimes, when Cecilia was sixteen and she was a child of six and things went impossibly wrong. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Your YouTube subscriber count is at three hundred and sixteen, and growing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z When I turned sixteen on the lunar new year, Huang Taitai told me she was ready to welcome a grandson by next spring. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Rachel is fifteen—or, as she would put it, going on sixteen—and cares for naught but appearances. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowing what you now know about regression analysis, conventional wisdom, and the art of parenting, consider the following list of sixteen factors. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Khouy is sixteen and more interested in girls and karate than books. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sixteen arms must begin to pull, sixteen knees must begin to fold and unfold, eight bodies must begin to slide forward and backward, eight backs must bend and straighten all at once. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Johnny was sixteen, but he could pull himself together and play at being a little boy still. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Working together all day, Saturday and Sunday, Roberto and I managed to finish an acre, for which we were paid sixteen dollars. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Over the summer, as the last few seniors turned sixteen and pretty, the tricks had grown worse and worse. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “To imply the Cro-Magnon were lug heads is wrong. They exhibited a cranial capacity approximately sixteen hundred cubic centimeters larger than modern-day humans.’ Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z At sixteen, Benton asked a girl named Susie to the Homecoming dance at his school. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I’m sweating and nervous and reconsidering the last sixteen years. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She was young, perhaps fifteen or sixteen years old, her cheeks still chubby like a child's. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z That’s one of the reasons why everyone in the city has to take the aptitude test at sixteen—if they’re aware during the test, that shows us that they might have healed genes.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Temporary telegram boys are not allowed to stay in the job beyond the age of sixteen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I felt then, in that moment, the insubstantial weight of my sixteen years in a way I’d never felt before. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z In May 1991, when I was sixteen years old, the rebels drove the president out of the country and set up a new government that was friendly with Northern Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Nathaniel, who is sixteen by now, makes a fool of himself, strutting around in his armor, making a show of his musket and sword. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Five hundred thousand depositors had funneled $2 billion into his sixteen banks and had been promised 15 percent interest on their money. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z So she said she was sixteen in the letter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Amy is with truth considered ‘the flower of the family’, for at sixteen she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman, not beautiful, but possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z So now, at the age of sixteen, my name will be in the reaping twenty times. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I had never been sixteen before, and I didn’t know what other kids were doing about it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I lay out sixteen pieces of poster board. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Three dollars and sixteen cents — more than he thought he had. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sixteen years ago, my older sister was murdered. She was only sixteen years old.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Lawrence was nearly sixteen, already out having a life of his own. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z So at only sixteen, Charles went straight to medical school. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They know she is sixteen years old, born in Seoul. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked a good deal younger than sixteen. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I sat next to her at the kitchen table, twice a day, for sixteen years, and never once did I consider the possibility that she could have been anything but Abnegation-born. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z An estimated sixteen million visitors come to see the new inventions, including a solar oven, American porcelain teeth, Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, Thomas Edison’s phonograph and his megaphone, modified to help the hard of hearing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My sweet new ride wasn’t the only perk of turning sixteen. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It's been sixteen days since I was last here. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She suggested he apply to Job Corps, a U.S. government program that provides vocational training to people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four and that offers the chance to earn a high school degree. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I don’t hop from being sixteen to being sixty. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “How do you find time to take literally three hundred and sixteen selfies with Bieber?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “I have my license and I’ve been driving since I was sixteen.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The rain came when they were sixteen miles north of an Iowa settlement called Tenville Junction. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z With Tyler gone, the rest of us were promoted: Luke, at sixteen, became the eldest son, my father’s right hand, and Richard and I took his place as grunts. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z First there was a round of thirty-two, then sixteen, then eight. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Here were women, all of them under thirty and some as young as sixteen, who were building nonprofits, training other women to be entrepreneurs, and risking imprisonment to report on government corruption. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He was about sixteen feet off the ground, about eight feet above the waterline. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Sarai and Feral were seventeen now; Sparrow was sixteen, and Ruby not quite. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then he remembered that the grids stood for five kilometers each, and when he counted the numbers of grids between the lake and Brannock’s he came up with about sixteen squares. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I find myself standing in a clump of sixteens from the Seam. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She's like the guy who spends sixteen years in jail, and then gets out, and hates having to make all the decisions of regular life. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been one of the enormous boys who sat in the back of the schoolroom—sixteen or so when she was a tiny one in the front row. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Because it was summer and the days were quite long, I was fasting for sixteen hours a day. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The kid sitting next to her looked about sixteen and he pulled his earphone out long enough to say, “Yeah, sure, whatever.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “You are eighteen years old. Not sixteen, as you have claimed.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Sometimes ’tis hard to believe you are sixteen.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z One by one, the sixteen official Warcross teams choose their top picks from the wild cards. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On Saturday the seventh, the night before the Great Fire, a blaze destroyed four blocks and took over sixteen hours to control. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z At sixteen he joined the merchant marine, and his first voyage took him around Cape Horn in the winter: it was his first experience of the Southern Ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She always had a chip on her shoulder about the operation, like someone was making her turn sixteen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It made you seem older than sixteen and made me feel way younger than eleven. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The rec yard wall is solid cement—maybe sixteen feet high. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus, I was sixteen and it was time for me to have it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Since we’re already at the sixteen trainees we expected to keep, it means everyone left onstage has passed the first tryout...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “I’m sixteen. I shouldn’t have to beg for that. But we just want to get to class without fearing for our lives.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z This is hard to believe when she has to tell him a million times how 2,700 miles divided by sixteen equals five months, give or take. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Many of us had turned sixteen by then. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Another door closed in the face, but I’m sixteen tomorrow and I ring again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “What are you, sixteen? An entitled cheerleader type from a perfect family? Think everyone in the world owes you a favor?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Like Park had spent sixteen years acting weak and weird and girlie, and his dad had borne it on his massive shoulders. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I spent sixteen months on Okinawa, where I served with a unit of army engineers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z All sixteen black chess pieces stuck out of her mouth like finely carved tumors. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I was sixteen when I started in his class, a week short of eighteen when I graduated from high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He was green, and he overestimated his resilience, but he was sufficiently skilled to last for sixteen weeks on little more than his wits and ten pounds of rice. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At sixteen hundred the pace began to flag again, so the slave trader invited some of the buyers to come up for a closer look at the dwarfs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Because of the Korean War, Congress had just lowered the minimum age for military service to eighteen and a half, so Lawrence was drafted at sixteen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He had distilled it at the age of sixteen, enabling him to work miracles, among them the highest aspiration of the ancient art: the transmutation of lead into gold. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was the fall of 1953, and at sixteen I was beginning my senior year in a near panic. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The issue was, Needles was sixteen, almost seventeen, and Noodles and I was fifteen going on sixteen. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Caviedes says, “Show me the runway,” but the runway is sixteen miles away. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The older girl, who might have been sixteen, came closer to me and held out her hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Making it big, getting out of the Garden, living past sixteen. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z In fact, he insisted on taking me to Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and Scotland—a ten-week trip beginning in mid-June, which meant I wouldn’t go to Beechwood at all, summer sixteen. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z At sixteen I wasn’t always sure what I meant. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I am nearly sixteen when i look around the store and realize that it has barely changed in all the time I’ve been here. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She died when my dad was sixteen, but in that relatively short amount of time she taught him to cook, sew, iron, and make his bed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I haven’t had a perfect day since I turned sixteen,” Trina said as she thumbed down the corner of her page and placed the book by her side. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z On the bedside table were sixteen empty packets of sleeping pills and a note: “I forgive everyone and ask forgiveness of everyone. OK? Not too much gossip, please.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Despite Abraham Lincoln’s assassination just sixteen years earlier, President Garfield did not have armed guards protecting him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A decade later Cieza de Leon saw the battleground and from the wreckage and unburied remains thought the dead could have numbered sixteen thousand. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was a picture of Sissy taken twenty years ago—Sissy with a towering crimped pompadour and huge leg-o’-mutton sleeves—Sissy, sixteen years old. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She was with a guy who Gregor guessed was about sixteen. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z By his map they were sixteen miles from the canal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was only sixteen francs apiece for Bill and me, with ten per cent added for the service, and we had the bags sent down and waited for Robert Cohn. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z It had been cut from a VC corpse, a boy of fifteen or sixteen. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirteen of the state's sixteen pulp and paper mills were opened during this period. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I discovered this at the age of sixteen and I’ve never forgotten it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mother married when she was sixteen. If I were to die young as she did, I should like first to have lived, and loved.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He was a youth of sixteen years, whip-thin, fearless, quick to laugh, with the faint shadow of his first mustachio on his upper lip. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In order to make enough money he had to keep the speakeasy open sixteen, sometimes eighteen, hours a day. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z By 1880, some twenty-six thousand people lived in the neighborhood, and sixteen thousand of them were Irish. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In the photograph he was only sixteen years old, but he already looked wrathful and fierce. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “It’s not my birthday, and I’m practically sixteen.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He’s tall and gawky and sixteen years old. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Mark sixteen eighteen. Across each of his eight knuckles.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Park had gone sixteen years without a driving emergency. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z She was as young as Ivan, likely not even sixteen yet, with red cheeks topped with freckles. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Behind the dog a boy about fifteen or sixteen came with an armload of firewood. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “You drive that vehicle back, son. But don’t let me find you behind the wheel till you’re sixteen and got a card in your wallet.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Sweet sixteen and never been kissed is bad enough, but to be Thyroid Mary on top of it? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, by the time Jefferson had arrived in New York in March, sixteen possible sites had been proposed but had failed to muster a majority. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I suddenly realized it had been sixteen years since I’d seen him standing up. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “The last clue should pop up on the Wonder Dome in sixteen minutes.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “That was the worst time, man, being sixteen, sitting in that bus, looking out the window at the Wall.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” said he, smiling—“and reason good. I was sixteen years old when you were born.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Looking back now, I see sixteen years of springtime, followed by a deep, sudden freeze. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “He gave me sixteen cents and a pinching penny.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually they climb sixteen steps into the Gallery of Mineralogy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I couldn’t find the trigger of the sixteen. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His mysterious death sixteen days later raised charges by blacks that he had been cold-bloodedly murdered by the South African police. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “It took you sixteen years to figure that one out,” she says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I was sixteen when she announced she was getting married. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Reginald then was only sixteen, but, a six-footer, he looked and acted much older than his years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It had taken a lot longer—a year and sixteen days to be exact, he’d figured it out—for a day to go by when he didn’t think about his mother. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z By the rules, a boy had to be at least sixteen to ride, but no one ever asked for a birth certificate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “In fact, excellent, berries selling very well. Mrs. Chambers just now purchased sixteen crates.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She was sixteen, and her breasts were full and firm. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She says the word confident sixteen times in the space of five minutes. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I was becoming stubborn now that I was sixteen. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z You put the twenty-one and the sixteen together, and the answer is twenty-one sixteen, or 2,116. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The fat woman was co-coordinating a group of teenagers who looked sixteen and seventeen years old. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Beth is sixteen and in the process of wearing down our parents’ patience. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “When I was fifteen, almost sixteen, they came to this adoption fair thing at one of the group homes. They liked me, they said.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z From the movie Gunga Din, which I’ve seen sixteen times and I still think is the greatest adventure movie ever ever ever made. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Even though Abraham Lincoln had been shot in a theatre sixteen years before, no bodyguards or law enforcement officers accompanied Garfield when he left the White House. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Soon the couple married; my mother was sixteen and my father, Moshe, was eighteen. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Our sixteens were at our side, too jammed between us and the walls of the hole to use. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “And then the eight became sixteen and we reinvested it in a high-risk stock that went crazy?” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Maids were expected to clean fifteen to sixteen rooms a day by themselves, and though the shifts were supposed to be eight hours long, in reality it took much longer to clean so many rooms. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z According to Babou, it came from sixteen different kinds of fire—including lightning, which was pretty amazing if you thought about it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Oh, Lord, I don’t know....In my time, there was about fifteen or sixteen....” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There were only sixteen of them left now—sixteen Champions, and four of them were to duel. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I squeezed the trigger of the sixteen and watched him hurtle backward. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Out of the sixteen players here today I have coached six,” she told them. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Gage prepared a speech titled “The United States on Trial, Not Susan B. Anthony,” which she presented to sixteen groups. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I pushed the sixteen into the small brown body and pulled the trigger. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew I ought to cry, but I’d lived with my parents for sixteen years, and a trial separation seemed overdue. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Bailey was sixteen, small for his age, bright for any and hopelessly in love with Mother Dear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a Georgian house, not unlike the Mount, in a small village called Down, about sixteen miles from London Bridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Let’s pick up the action sixteen years before FBI agents cornered Harry Gold in Philadelphia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I was not free from apprehension that he would come back to propound through the gate, “And sixteen?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I was sixteen years old, and he was my eleventh-grade English teacher. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z These sixteen dedicated souls were determined to walk all the way from New York to the nation’s capital, and that is exactly what they did, picking up many other hikers along the way. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The magewind had borne them for only three days eastward, yet sixteen days they sailed westward to return. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It took thousands of workers eight months to clear 1.8 billion tons of debris from the sixteen acres of the World Trade Center site in New York. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Was there something about sixteen that was different? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “What is the hardest part of running sixteen miles a day?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Maybe, since she was sixteen, there would even be a kiss. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “You already knew the answer. Now second question, what is the square root of sixteen?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I was hardly the promising student who had left him sixteen years earlier. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked about sixteen and I could tell she was cute, even though black lines streamed down her face from all of the tears mixing with her makeup. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Under DACA, undocumented children who entered the United States before the age of sixteen would avoid deportation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Before his twenty-first birthday Hickock had worked as a railway trackman, an ambulance driver, a car painter, and a garage mechanic; he’d also married a girl sixteen years old. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Each barracks was divided into six units, sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They transferred this Anglophilia to their six children and sixteen grandchildren. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother-in-law, who was a former teacher, regarded me with some surprise and then said in a rather peevish way, “No, Zindzi cannot come and see you because she is not yet sixteen.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So dose to sixteen I didn’t want to think about it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I heard about you. I heard you scored sixteen goals last year. I heard you were All-County.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A box on the table held maybe fifteen, sixteen circles of paint and a bottle of water. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Two hundred and sixteen rings old, to be precise. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I hate to think we won't make it past this point, but we only have sixteen dollars left in Max's bag. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Raf ever tell you his parents kicked him out when he was sixteen?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I climbed the sixteen steps to the door, advancing quietly up each so as not to make any warning sounds. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Thalia was only two days away from turning sixteen. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z On the top four boards, the Soviets managed to win only one game out of a possible sixteen. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I’ll have a few years maybe, because I’m still only sixteen, to stay with my mother and Prim. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “My bad, I must’ve missed the memo that you grown. Last time I checked, you were sixteen years old, Brianna. Six. Teen!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z What he wouldn’t have given to have a kid die at sixteen. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He explained that he had been a vegetarian for sixteen years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z For the first time ever, I cracked the top sixteen and came home with a twelfth place finish. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Taylor graduated early from high school, in 2013, at the age of sixteen, and was the valedictorian at InTech Collegiate High School. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It’s the pace of a sprinter, not the pace of a person running sixteen miles a day. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I was sixteen, had never taken an exam, and had only recently undertaken anything like a systematic education; still I registered for the test. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The night started dully, but then sixteen members and two pledges from Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Stanford chapter, came in hilarious from a pledge hazing in San Juan. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At only sixteen, he played a middle-aged duke. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z When I, her only son, was sixteen I contracted pleural pneumonia, in that day a killing disease. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “What Bernard was telling us was like opening a window to an entirely new world,” recalled Charles Bonner, who was sixteen at the time. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at least sixteen years old when they were finished. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I had neither element in my personality, so I hefted the burden of pregnancy at sixteen onto my own shoulders where it belonged. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The hostages went first—one hundred boys between the ages of eight and sixteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Waiting until sixteen was just a stupid old tradition. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He tells me how to lift and push the bags without straining myself and we have the sixteen bags delivered by noon. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At sixteen, he was the youngest rider on the field, yet he had unhorsed three knights of the Kingsguard that morning in his first three jousts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She was just past sixteen and of course he thought of her as a baby. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s a shock to everyone when he says, the Battle of Kinsale in sixteen nought one was the saddest moment in Irish history, a close battle with cruelty and atrocities on both sides. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “She left Mexico and her family when she was sixteen,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “I mean, huge. My sister’s friend had had her sweet sixteen at the same place last year. There were like two hundred people there, so I mean it’s a huge place.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I half-wondered if I should return to the bathroom and climb through the mirror, then send out the other girl, the one who was sixteen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When she was sixteen she had fought vigorously with her mother, for Victoria had taken it into her head that she would work in the Seventh Magpie as a pot-maid. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He looked sixteen but he was only eleven, and he cried like a baby. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Something I’m not allowed to have until I’m sixteen. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z There were sixteen boys at the halfway house. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Don’t give him all the page sixteens when you come back. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z One by one the boats surged up onto the rocky beach, and the crew stumbled through the water, on solid ground for the first time in sixteen months. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Well, tell me, boy, am I right? Are you sixteen or not?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “Tell me something new. I’ve been sixteen for two years now.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I ran away from home when I was sixteen,” the captain said. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was heading almost directly toward New Orleans, with the brunt of it expected to strike about sixteen miles west of the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She was about sixteen, tall and skinny, with lank dark hair that she scraped back into an unflattering ponytail. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z President John Kennedy, elected in 1960, increased the number of American soldiers from a few hundred to over sixteen thousand. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I read him when I was sixteen, and his work offered a grand theory of multi-millennial European plunder. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z There were too many people in the yard; a family of sixteen lived in the room next to Mama Oji. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At sixteen, most kids would stress about parallel parking tests, getting a driver’s license, and affording a car. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The sleep lasted for about sixteen milliseconds before the second period bell rang. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Clive had come here to southern Washington State when he was just sixteen, to work as a lumberjack. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z I just have to make it sixteen days. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They had walked the sixteen miles and were in the dark alley at home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I first learned about HeLa cells and the woman behind them in 1988, thirty-seven years after her death, when I was sixteen and sitting in a community college biology class. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z After they’d been flying for sixteen hours and just before it got dark, Marina caught a brief glimpse of the river near Omsk, which was enough to tell her they were still on course. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “She’s nearly sixteen now, like the Polish girl. My father sent her up north near the Danish border for safety. I haven’t heard from her in over three years. I’m going to find her.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I, on the other hand, was not quite sixteen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I look closer to sixteen than you do.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z When your grandmother was sixteen years old a young man knocked on her door. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z By 1913, there were approximately sixteen thousand separate companies in New York City’s garment business, many just like the Borgenichts’ shop on Sheriff Street. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Of the sixteen pictures added to the Wall of Fame since 1982, five were of blacks. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But none of them had made it to sixteen. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Mark sixteen eighteen. They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing; it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover “Bravo.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I had to reach back in and get my sixteen. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Raggedy-behind squirts of sixteen and seventeen would be giving him their merciless pity out of their eyes while their mouths said something humble. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z She took a more concrete step when she was sixteen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Prison regulations stated that no child between the ages of two and sixteen may visit a prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The words of a boy—Selvam was not sixteen—shaming us all. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ve been friends for sixteen years, since the day I moved from Greenwood to Jackson and we met at the bus stop. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Then Osbert got up and left, he’s sixteen and the oldest in case I didn’t say it, which is a year older than me. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We had sixteen campers, fifteen Hunters, and half a dozen satyrs left in fighting shape. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The easy thing to do would be to let the issue drop and raise it again later, especially considering Bailey is not quite sixteen and there is a substantial interim before either option will occur. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When Sir Francis Drake first navigated through this perilous strait in 1578, it took him sixteen days and cost him four of his ships. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Obie himself had only sold sixteen but had called out forty-five. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a new dishwasher, a boy of about sixteen, and there was something familiar about him, his movements, the look in his eyes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “I’d like to wear nylon stockings and little heels with whatever I wear. I am sixteen now, sixteen and a half, actually.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d say you’re sixteen. And in case you were wondering, five foot nine . . . brown hair. Oh, and ugly as fried liver on a stick.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Just sixteen miles to the south, beyond an escarpment of the Outer Range, hundreds of tourists rumble daily into Denali Park over a road patrolled by the National Park Service. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The facts are when he was sixteen he got a shot at coming to America, gambled on the land of opportunity and lost. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I decided to spend the night there, on the narrow crest, sixteen hundred feet below the summit. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Him: Two reasons: If Noah can be eighteen or sixteen or even fourteen when he has to watch his father go to jail, that will be better than it happening when he’s thirteen. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The children were entranced, for at nearly sixteen they had never seen fire. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Many of my Alabama clients were on death row for crimes they were accused of committing when they were sixteen- or seventeen-year-old children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z My last few days of being sixteen, and living in this house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I’ll let you guess again: Do you think Alfred Hartnett weighed about the same as me, or about sixteen times more? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Holding the elevator door open with one foot, Bridge had pushed the buttons for every floor in the building, except for sixteen, where Alex lived. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Of one hundred and ten questions about his lineage, Werner can accurately answer only sixteen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We were doing fifteen or sixteen miles a day, nothing like the twenty-five miles we had been promised we would do, but still a perfectly respectable distance by our lights. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I knew because my father had been born when she was sixteen. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Margot is sixteen—apparently they want to send girls her age away on their own. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Boarding is at five thirty-five. Flight leaves at six o’clock. Gate B sixteen,” he says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “What is important in baseball about the number two hundred and sixteen?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Even though I was now sixteen and even though I was still small for my age, I knew in my heart that it was my time to serve as a warrior. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I once saw him get a triple double against Pennsville—sixteen assists, eighteen points, ten rebounds. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was Sung Guo, also called Seneca Gracchus, who fought twelve Roman dragons and sixteen Chinese dragons in the western deserts of China. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Riddle wrote it when he was sixteen. Dumbledore took the diary from Harry and peered keenly down his long, crooked nose at its burnt and soggy pages. “ Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z For fourteen to sixteen hours a day he worked in that sumptuously decorated hole in the ground and never stopped moving the entire time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z You can square the four and get sixteen. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z "And he was just sixteen," the blonde says. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Officer Brian Cruise Jr. has been on the force for sixteen years,” the voice-over says, and more pics of him as a cop are shown. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The poster’s only been up for eleven hours, and I’ve already gotten sixteen emails. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He wore a hunting shirt and a look of discontent; his girl was perhaps sixteen, and regarded us with distrust. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Most people assumed that meant me, but if I died before I turned sixteen, the prophecy could just as easily apply to Nico. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He was now sixteen and had grown to be almost as tall as my father, but his cheeks were hollow and his clothes hung loosely on his bony frame. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Two hundred repetitions, twice a week from fourteen to sixteen and a half,” was all his comment. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In residence there for at least sixteen years, Eratosthenes worked his way into the educational establishment, building the reputation that would earn him an invitation to Egypt. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Though I wasn’t quite sixteen then, I was tall and rawboned and looked like twenty-one; I was also pretty strong for my age. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He was huge, bigger than most grown men, even though he was only sixteen. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Do you remember when you read us the sixteen verses of the fourth chapter of Genesis and we argued about them?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t always terribly accurate–oxygen’s atomic weight is actually sixteen, not seven–but the principle was sound and formed the basis for all of modern chemistry and much of the rest of modern science. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Lida was sixteen, and pretty enough to be the object of the hot boy’s eye. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The next few days were spent with my parents filling me in on what had happened in the sixteen days between the shooting and our reunion. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I have still the advantage of you by sixteen years’ experience, and by not being a pretty young woman and a spoiled child. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z I looked up to see a boy of fifteen or sixteen, crouching nearby. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z In an era in which one race a week was considered a full calendar, he ran a mare named Miss Cheyenne sixteen times in twenty-one days. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Fourteen is a good age to read this book and sixteen is even better. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z She had had her first love affair when she was sixteen, with a Party member of sixty who later committed suicide to avoid arrest. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “That’s a hundred and... sixteen days then. You gone tell him. A hundred and sixteen days from now.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It had been sixteen days since I’d run out of my house in Mingora, shouting good-bye on my way to school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The girl looked about sixteen, with choppy black hair and startling blue eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In 1954, black and white youth unemployment rates in America were equal, with blacks actually having a slightly higher rate of employment in the age group sixteen to nineteen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Happy Birthday to You”! Yelling “Happy sixteen years!” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Dorcas, at sixteen, has yet to wear silk hose and her shoes are those of someone much younger or very old. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s the Achilles’ heel of their marriage, and it’s only noticeable if you’ve been watching it for sixteen years like I have. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z They already had sixteen—the original seven plus a second group of nine. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are almost sixteen, Kambili. You are beautiful. You will find more love than you will need in a lifetime,” he said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She looked like she could be fifteen or sixteen years old, and her hair was tar black. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Through the end of April and into May, a team of sixteen editors, reporters, and secretaries worked twelve-plus-hour days going through the thousands of pages Sheehan had brought back from Boston. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Half of thirty-eight was nineteen, the square of nineteen was 361, and sixteen times that was...“Five thousand seven hundred and seventy-six feet!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “In the fifties, when my father was ranching, it was two or three years old. Now we get there at fourteen to sixteen months.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Princesse was sixteen but because she was very short and thin could easily pass for twelve. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z We deboosted from orbit and entered the Martian atmosphere sixteen days later. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m talking about the period from when we were thirteen to when we left at sixteen. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z If I were to stay here another sixteen sols, it would get dark enough to kill me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The song slammed on; various rappers took turns spitting sixteen bars in different languages. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z That might mean sixteen more great blue herons if all goes well this summer. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z One man had died, but now the remaining sixteen, with their eyes clear in their heads and their faces pressed to the thick glass ports, watched Mars swing up under them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And Charles was a man, and a dangerous man, even at fifteen, and when Adam was sixteen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It took time to prepare subjects for the operation, especially if they were older than sixteen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Ruta Skadi was four hundred and sixteen years old, with all the pride and knowledge of an adult witch queen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had let go of my dream of reading about when I was sixteen and took on responsibilities to help feed all the little ones that came to our family. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are only sixteen boats. That’s not nearly enough for everyone.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z “So that means her mom was sixteen when Anna was born.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z “I bore ten—no—eleven children. You had three and Katie had two. Among us, we had sixteen children. We ought to know enough to bring a baby.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “They asked us if we wanted to foster,” Grace’s mother explained, and even now, sixteen years later, Grace could see the lines of regret that Joaquin had etched on her face. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z My coach had explained that to compete in the Olympics, I’d have to turn sixteen within the Olympic year. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I requested that the prison service supply me with sixteen 44-gallon oil drums that I had them slice in half. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From the threshold to the beginning of the stairs she counted fifteen roses, sixteen snowflakes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The others were younger teenage girls, around fifteen to sixteen years old. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z All day long he works, fourteen, sixteen hours, with unflagging concentration, his sandals leaving prints in the flour dust on the floor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Rowan, at sixteen, had resolved he would experience gray hair before he turned his first corner—and even then, he wouldn’t reset so far down as to be embarrassing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Of the sixteen shells on the river that day, George Pocock had built fifteen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Once in Tarbean I saw a young girl of no more than sixteen with the telltale hollow eyes and unnaturally white teeth of the hopelessly addicted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There’s even a doorman, Morrie, who calls me doctor, which is a thing that happens to me, despite me being sixteen with no medical training. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Hugo joined the merchant marines at sixteen and on his first trip went to Dakar, where the markets were filled with monstrous fruits grown in soils of uncommon minerals. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But ever since he turned sixteen, he’s spent his time at the Games being dogged by those desperately in love with him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He was lithe and handsome, no older than sixteen, with straight blond hair that brushed his shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When you are sixteen, adults are slightly impressed and almost intimidated by you. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z For my whole sixteen years I’ve rarely thought I was worth much more than a distracted grumble from God. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “They wanted me to wait until I’m sixteen!” she complains to Lucinda and me. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “I know I’m not supposed to date until I’m sixteen, but I’m allowed to go to dances, right? ” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I didn’t have the four hundred rands’ deposit, nor the sixteen hundred rands for the plane ticket. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And some had celebrated the victory over the previous night’s blaze with whisky and beer; though, after sixteen hours of fighting a fire, most simply wanted a soft bed and rest. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Eighteen miles and sixteen minutes away as the falcon flies, the repair work on the Margaretville Bridge was nearing completion. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She was older than Arya, though; almost sixteen, a woman grown. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I was sixteen when I got this order to report with my whole class to guard a hydrogenation plant,” said Manfred Schroeder. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At sixteen, Lothar Loewe was considered an expert in blowing up tanks. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The spring I turned sixteen, Mrs. Diamant began sending me to the monthly shop owners’ meetings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I had saved thirty-two Zim dollars and needed sixteen for stamps, which would set me way back from returning to school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Charged with picketing for better hours and working conditions at a cotton mill in Newnan, Georgia, sixteen women and one hundred and twelve men were imprisoned. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The rest of us were between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, except Kanei, who was now seventeen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He’s a “high-powered intern” at sixteen, just relocated to New York, seems really smart. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z At sixteen, he is already old and hard, and alone. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z During the summer of 1848, at the age of sixteen, James went to work on his older cousin's boat on the canal that connected Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Hello is sixteen and good at telling all kinds of funny stories. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A few days later, Boghetti phoned Marian in Philadelphia to tell her that she had been chosen as one of sixteen semifinalists. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I think we reminded them of what peace was like, we boys of sixteen. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z My oldest girl, Sugar, is sixteen and pretty good about keeping things neat, but I like to help her out on the weekends the way my mama never helped me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A boy of about sixteen entered, taking off his pointed hat. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She was sixteen and going into the eleventh grade. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The symptoms he was seeing reminded him of a sickness that had swept through Philadelphia back in 1762, when he was sixteen years old and studying under Dr. Redman. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He told us that when he was sixteen, he had to leave school because his dad died, and someone had to support the family. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Katie found an ad in The World that said a file clerk was wanted; beginner considered, age sixteen, state religion. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time he was sixteen, Velutha had finished high school and was an accomplished carpenter. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I dreamed about turning sixteen and getting my license, but then when Momma left, something happened to me. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “Do you always travel that way?” asked Milo as he glanced curiously at the strange circular room, whose sixteen tiny arched windows corresponded exactly to the sixteen points of the compass. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “Only because Stella Beckett got one for her sweet sixteen.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The house had sixteen rooms on two floors, was surrounded by “superb old trees,” and occupied a long rectangle of land that stretched to the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But since Ruth was only sixteen years older than Lena, all three had always looked the same age to him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I said the birthday I’d concocted, with a year that made me sixteen. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Luckily for me, because I was in the top sixteen in the world, I didn’t have to fence until the second day of competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It will either happen today or February 14,1958 when I am sixteen. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Under California law, a juvenile has to be at least sixteen to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “He’s sixteen. He can take care of himself.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It was about sixteen feet long, built for two people. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z "I agree with you entirely, Mr. McSouthers. What we have to find out is who these sixteen heirs are, and which one, as you say, was Westing 'out to get.'" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I lifted the sixteen and pulled the trigger. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The strip of pale skin on her fourth finger where her sweet sixteen ring had been. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z When she was sixteen, Kitty Hammer was the number-one- ranked junior tennis player in the country. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z "Then you must be responsible for stealing sixteen thousand five hundred Notes from there as well." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “You were born in Luxembourg in 1899. You came to live with Miss Thrush when you were sixteen years old, and have been here ever since.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was when she was sixteen and pregnant with me. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z The plan was for her mother to alter Zindzi’s birth documents to show that the girl was turning sixteen, not fifteen, and therefore able to see me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was this prophecy that said when I turned sixteen, bad things would happen. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He had enough players to field a team—though barely, with just sixteen at one practice—but apparently not the right kind of players. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Two had just arrived from another city, and weren’t even sixteen yet. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z My father, who worked as a clerk at the General Post Office of Calcutta, died of encephalitis when I was sixteen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z An older witch, maybe sixteen or so, was jogging toward them with a huge smile on her face. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “I need a place for my family,” he told Graham Salter, the man whose good luck Henry had followed through the oil fields since he was sixteen. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z After sixteen years, she knew exactly what details would be noticed and what people would think when they saw her. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Someone murmured about “the unexpected and sudden deaths of sixteen fine men during the night ” Earth pounded down on the coffin lids. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z All the questions that the world might answer between the time a person is ten and the time he becomes sixteen. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “In the village, long time ago, they use to have sometimes babies who were looking like girls. Then—fifteen, sixteen—they are looking like boys! My mother tell me this but I never believe.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t change the fact that I was sixteen. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But Thalia and I had been born anyway, and now we were both getting close to sixteen. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z At sixteen, Eleanor was already built like she ran a medieval pub. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Now that my oldest brother, Samuel, was a freshman at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, that left my sixteen- year-old brother, Chester, as the oldest child at home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She remembered how hurt Gigi seemed and how even Gigi was nervous about telling a real person, and she was sixteen! Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I have two hundred sixteen rings’ worth of wisdom to convey. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In exchange for teaching five classes, he earns sixteen thousand dollars a year. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I likened the top sixteen fencers in the world to superheroes, insanely fast, mesmerizing to watch, and lucky enough to not even have to fence the first day of World Cup competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In California, where all sixteen finalists were library whizzes, Sarah Trager Logan, the librarian in charge, knew teamwork would be crucial for victory inside the Lemoncello Library. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He was a lot more self-possessed than I had been at sixteen. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, let me see...will it be oozing chocolate lava cake at sixteen dollars or the caramelized runny butter tarts at fourteen dollars or the...,” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z And then before I can stop myself, I blurt out, “Well, that makes sixteen instead of seventeen I have to decide between, doesn’t it?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Jeannine’s head only came up to my shoulder, but she looked sixteen, at least. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ron was sixteen and a high school sophomore; Adam was fourteen and a freshman. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He was sixteen, tall and muscular, and his blows were as hard as any Jon had ever felt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Or maybe you’ve seen my photograph in chapter sixteen of the now sadly outdated Genetics and Heredity. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Such is the life of a fifteen-year-old senior in a university meant for sixteen and up. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z When Mary told her mother that she was pregnant, at age sixteen, Alma said, “I don’t care! You are going to finish school and go to college.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z My mother had lived with Robbie on and off since she was about sixteen, following every arcane rule the woman laid down, and it’s possible she was secretly happy to see Robbie’s authority challenged. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Granddaddy says my dad had two jobs at sixteen and still pursued rapping. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “For two hundred and sixteen rings, I’ve sat on my roots and listened to people hope for things. And a lot of times, those wishes never happened, I’m guessing.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z When Royal was sixteen the war came, and all the young men, first the sons of the mighty, and then the sons of his own people, were scattered into foreign lands. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z An army tank led me into urban battle once; a swimming pool turned me into myth; I’ve left my body in order to occupy others—and all this happened before I turned sixteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The population of Tally’s dorm had been steadily dropping for the last year as seniors turned sixteen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Her job through two marriages—the first for sixteen years, the second for fourteen—had been to mother her children; but now she had to run a family, and she was learning late. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When Deborah was a junior in high school, at the age of sixteen, she got pregnant with her first child. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Now that he’s sixteen he wants to go to England and if ever I get a wireless that will be him on the BBC Home Service. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They ranged in age from sixteen to sixty and were carrying a motley collection of muskets and swords and pistols. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I ran away when I was sixteen. I had no other options.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The room was twenty-two feet long and sixteen feet wide. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “My name is Starr Carter. I’m sixteen years old.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z On the plate there were eight eggs, twelve sausages, sixteen rashers of bacon and a heap of fried potatoes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z No one got the disease anymore, since everyone knew at sixteen they’d turn beautiful. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z My backpack held little more than three empty oxygen canisters and a pint of frozen lemonade; it probably weighed no more than sixteen or eighteen pounds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She had been running a dressmaking business since the age of sixteen. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z This one was young, fifteen or maybe sixteen, with shaggy blond hair in need of a good wash and a pair of pouty lips in need of a good kiss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Each stone pillar weighed up to seven tons and reached a height of sixteen feet. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At sixteen and a half my mom found out I was cutting classes with my twenty-one-year-old boyfriend. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The sum total of vegetation on this land was enough to keep one cow in food for approximately sixteen days out of every year. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “But because of Rob’s impressive organizational skills, which were apparent even when he was sixteen and seventeen, he was soon running the entire production side of the company.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I am sixteen, and for dinner we had a roast chicken and a cake, both cooked in my new oven. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A girl of fifteen or sixteen years, he judged, dark hair plastered across a gaunt face by the falling rain, her bare feet muddy to the ankles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The equation for finding how far it fell was S = ½at2, or sixteen times the square of the time it took to fall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “You know you did. And nobody has an easy life, Grace. Not me, definitely not you. I mean, you had a baby at sixteen, right? But your life’s not ruined.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Mama kneels next to me and picks up the item I've just set aside, a birthday card from when I turned sixteen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But by the sixth year, at thirteen and sixteen, they were too old to even pretend it was funny. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But by then Carol had departed and he’d taken as a bride another girl aged sixteen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z There were over thirty boys between the ages of seven and sixteen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He had been smoking them since he was sixteen, and regularly, as many as a dozen a day—expensive panatelas, for the most part—since he was eighteen. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Once I saw Jenkins suspiciously tap one of the jars with his size sixteen wing tip, checking for signs of life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She was almost sixteen and would marry in two years. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “I will not turn sixteen tomorrow. I will never turn sixteen. I won’t let this prophecy be mine. I stand with my sister Artemis. Kronos will never tempt me again.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Mr. Hannon says the man who delivered sixteen hundredweights of coal and turf deserves a pint and the boy who helped him deserves a lemonade. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Yes, in Vilnius. Next year, when you’re sixteen, you’d be allowed to enter. If accepted, you’d study with some of the most talented artists in northern Europe. Would that interest you?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z At sixteen now, she took a lover from one of the island families and managed to keep direct light from ever hitting her stomach. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I was sixteen, but I would be seventeen on the twelfth of August. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z We all turned sixteen today, and for any normal girl that would mean raspberry and lemon macarons and tiny pastel blimps and pink champagne and card games. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She’s in excellent shape, training for this even if she hadn’t realized it, but sixteen miles a day could kill her if she doesn’t pace herself. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He had sixteen letters to deliver from E. J. Plum, Attorney-at- Law. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time I was sixteen I didn’t really care, except it felt good to actually be good at something. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He introduced them to two of his daughters who happened to be there: Amparo, sixteen, dark like her mother, and Remedios, only nine, a pretty little girl with lily-colored skin and green eyes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She was making a birthday present for Ruby, who would be sixteen in a few months...if they were still alive by then. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Whereupon, Chester and his sixteen purple mice went into the kitchen for dinner. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Two older men, one with a cast on his leg, the other wheezing with asthma, and a young man of fifteen or sixteen who’d had appendix surgery. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z By sixteen I wasn’t just not pretty, I was painfully tall. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “But we don’t have the budget for it this year. That means I’m going to have to cut sixteen players today.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “The fourth,” said Tyrion, who had committed all sixteen of the wonders to memory as a boy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I’d wish I could buy about sixteen blocks of land and build a kind of Disneyland of my own.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z She had already completed sixteen hours of college credits and would get no closer toward graduation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He liked eights best, but he’d settle for fours, sixes, twelves, sixteens, any even number, really. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He referred to the Civil War sixteen years earlier and the lingering tensions between North and South. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Nobody knew how old she was—we thought she was about sixteen—much too old to be in our class. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She shoots all kinds of parties and events—weddings, bar mitzvahs, quinceaneras, graduations, anniversaries, sweet sixteens. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z One girl, Magdalena Nogueras, who at sixteen was caught stealing a pig and a wrench from her neighbor, went on to become a principal actress with the National Theater Company of Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, getting older didn’t seem like anything to celebrate since I’d gotten the big prophecy about me destroying or saving the world when I turned sixteen. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Joon Park was not in school again today. He has been absent or tardy sixteen times this semester,” she says. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t be sixteen until spring, and he never asked Lexie or Trip to drive him anywhere if he could help it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Mines Building was the first of the main exposition buildings to begin construction, but the work did not start until July 3, 1891, with less than sixteen months remaining until Dedication Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It had only been a few days, a blink in my collective sixteen years of life, but I didn’t need to see his face to know soft concern would be there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I want to go to confession before I’m sixteen tomorrow. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Figure 6.1: Here are the first sixteen pitches in a harmonic series that starts on a C natural. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I’m not saying what he did was right, I’m just saying at the end of the day, he was sixteen. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Santita had beautiful dark eyes, full cheeks, and the bearing of a wise woman, even at sixteen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Years ago, Chiron had had a prophecy about the next child of the Big Three—Zeus, Poseidon, or Hades—who turned sixteen. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The boy and girl were even younger than they had seemed at night, maybe even sixteen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She was almost sixteen and above it all, yet still unwilling for us to find something good without her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ruthanne, I’m sixteen. Only one train’s passing through here in the next two hours. I’m sure I can figure it out.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z They were scruffy, maybe sixteen or seventeen years old, and both carried guns. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Even though I was still quite small, by the time I turned sixteen I had grown very strong. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One Sunday afternoon, when he was perhaps sixteen, he caught me looking at them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The sixteen of us sit in the briefing auditorium of the Department of Supernatural Investigations. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z "Right—I must have just turned sixteen! Imagine forgetting that....You?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “They need new soldiers, Baba. I can fight like Dima. I’m almost sixteen.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I’m smarter than Devon even though he is three years and one month and sixteen days older than me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our dependents are now sixteen. They stand on the precipice of adulthood, and it is now up to them to decide what kind of people they will be.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Board of Education, sixteen years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, and ten years after a federal suit had been filed against the school district, Odessa’s schools weren’t remotely close to being integrated. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sixteen the summer he figured how to make an almanac. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A young boy, about sixteen years old, on his way home from school, had been strangled with what was believed to be a rope, and his head was bashed in. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, sixteen snarling cats were more than enough. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z X-Ray would be out to get him for the next sixteen months. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z With a sigh, I curled up on the edge of the bed and slept the soundest sleep of my entire sixteen years. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z And then Billy traveled in time to when he was sixteen years old, in the waiting room of a doctor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The son of the subject, an African male of sixteen years, demanded entrance to the experimental chamber; this being denied, he forced the door. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was about a year after that—he was sixteen—and he was taking the bypass through the tombwalk one evening when he heard a voice as hard and sharp as ax-fall. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There were sixteen miles of tunnels on that one small island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes, so bright and flashy at sixteen, are now yellow-stained, clouded. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine... The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “But then I thought about it. Like, ‘Oh, he’s sixteen.’” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z You weren’t supposed to have food or water for sixteen hours before the operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Every available male, aged sixteen to sixty, was drafted into this new militia, under the direction of the SS. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It took us an entire week, often playing over sixteen hours a day, before we were finally able to clear all thirty-nine levels and complete the quest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “They’re detaining every man between sixteen and sixty. They’ve been told to assemble at the tower of the chateau. Then they will be marched to Fort National at low tide. God be with them.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It has sixteen standing stalls, which are formed by dividers that swing across after each horse is led in. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Took him sixteen years to get that farm to where it was paying. It’s all dairy country up there now. Then it wasn’t. Then it was . . . nice.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The meal was served by three novices, well-scrubbed girls of good birth between the ages of twelve and sixteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I am sixteen at two thirty-one today,” Natalie says, her eyes focused on the table lamp. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end, Jak won the beesting contest, with sixteen stingers extracted, including one on the tip of his nose. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Blotting her lashes with a white handkerchief, Helene walked through the kitchen to the back bedroom where she had slept for sixteen years. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t eat pork as a rule and wore a size sixteen dress and a size ten ladies’ shoe. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Wes watched as, across the street, a young man no older than sixteen pulled out a wad of cash, held together by a rubber band, and began showing it off to a friend. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He was breathing almost fifty times a minute; I recall from my school course that normal is about sixteen. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But remembering the fiasco of sixteen months before, keeping King’s in the dark made sense until exact coordinates had been obtained for all the atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Of all the black employees working in research at Langley in the early 1960s, there were still only five categorized as engineers and sixteen with the title of mathematician. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But graduation meant that, at age sixteen, he had become an adult worker. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But after sixteen rounds, we would again feast, this time to celebrate our good fortune. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z At sixteen, I’ve probably witnessed more dead bodies than a mortician. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z One hit a bomb shelter, killing sixteen Norwegians. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad started coming in earlier and earlier to round up the boys until, by the time I was eight, and Tyler sixteen, we’d settled into a routine that omitted school altogether. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She was plump and dark and looked about sixteen. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The remainder of the floor’s residents—up to sixteen, who were considered less dangerous—were held in a dormitory room down the hall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But Emma refused to show it to her, even though she was sixteen. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm X’s hand flew to his chest as the first of sixteen shotgun pellets or revolver slugs hit him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Michael Kittredge, who began his candle-making business at age sixteen in his mother’s kitchen and says he was raised in a “lower-class to lower-middle-class” home, holds attitudes typical of many of the newcomers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Each had “luminous” eyes and a mouth surrounded by sixteen "whip-like tentacles” resembling a "gray snake.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Up to sixteen hundred men might be in recreation at a given time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her favorite story was about Kathleen, a pretty girl of sixteen who was betrothed to the village baker's son, a handsome young man with jet-black hair and smiling brown eyes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In The Winter’s Tale, a character named Time announced to the audience that sixteen years had passed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z As the game progressed, Bobby had only twenty minutes remaining on his clock to make the required forty moves, and he’d so far completed just sixteen of them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It passed through as many as sixteen generations of infection as it jumped from person to person in Sudan. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came Dari’s turn, with a total of sixteen swings. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It even had torch ginger buds for little candles: sixteen of them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He thought that would clear things up, make her know he couldn’t be the Macon she knew, who was sixteen when she last saw him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he had been married since he was sixteen, he had spent nearly thirty years of his marriage apart from his wife. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The first time I realized I loved Bas: He was sixteen, I was fifteen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He was unusually bright, accomplished, and ambitious, and he had graduated from Franklin High School two years early, at the age of sixteen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Wait, Maya, she was right. There is a tide and time in every man’s life—” “Bailey, you’re sixteen.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was sixteen, she moved in with a boyfriend who had a house near the village of Holkham in north Norfolk. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The number of the law firm was sixteen years old, but Mrs. Richardson decided it was worth a try. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He used to stand for fourteen or sixteen hours and not notice any effects at all. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z While her men—I fancied myself one already, though I was only sixteen—were in a hurry to get going, were Winnipeggers at heart already, she lingered. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Two had seen at least forty namedays come and go, he guessed; the youngest was perhaps fifteen or sixteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z By the start of February the winning streak had reached sixteen, and there wasn’t an empty seat in the gym. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She turns away from me and looks into the ashes in the range but I won’t leave her alone because I had my pint, two pints, and I’m sixteen tomorrow, a man. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “That makes her sixteen. Nowhere near old enough.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They’ve got guys on that team that are fifteen, maybe sixteen feet tall. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, though I was glad the little ones went, I could see that, by sixteen, my time for school had passed. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Robb was sixteen a few days past . . . a man grown, and a king. He's won every battle he's fought. The last word we had from him, he had taken the Crag from the Westerlings." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Of course, thanks to the magical economics of supersizing, it cost only thirty cents more than the sixteen- ounce “small.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Papa had been keeping the store ledgers since he was sixteen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Dasch noticed young people, no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing heavy fur pieces even though it wasn't cold outside. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z At sixteen, my brother was calling toxic masculinity “one hell of a drug.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Four doorways with four arrows each meant sixteen arrows to choose from, and there was no apparent pattern. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z By the time I was sixteen, they would feel like baby gloves on my hands. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We were led inside and sat on benches, surrounded by sixteen armed guards. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Car number five cost six hundred and thirty-seven pounds and sold for sixteen hundred and forty-nine fifty. You got all those figures written down, son?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Sanders had scored sixteen points and was in the middle of one of his best. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That meant that she, sixteen and a half years old, could now enter college with half a year’s freshman credits behind her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten kids had already made it onto Missy’s back and they were running out of room for the sixteen that remained. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Then, one day a couple weeks before she turned sixteen, everything changed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I had been training for sixteen months when Frank looked up at me with a smile one day. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Yes. But this will be a different kind. Like a sweet sixteen. Becoming grown in a new way.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z About every sixteen days, UN trucks arrived in Kakuma to distribute dry food. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite his misgivings Olmsted left the completion of the exposition landscape in the hands of Ulrich and adopted a punishing schedule of work and travel that took him through sixteen states. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The youngest looked sixteen and the oldest, thirty, and all were swarthy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When Simon turned sixteen and got belligerent, I thought it was just him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Oh, Alex, can we go up to sixteen D now and get their food?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Ethyne was sixteen at the time, and known throughout the Protectorate as a remarkably clever girl—quick hands, quick wits. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z When it launched on June 9, 1959, the stealthy sub carried sixteen nuclear-tipped missiles capable of hurling a warhead 1,300 miles. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On the lawn is an enormous picnic table, big enough to seat sixteen, and a ways off from that, a tire swing hangs from a massive maple. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Father a small landowner who also wrote plays, died when Gogol was sixteen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I adjust the settings on my profile so I’ll only be visible to anyone between the ages of sixteen and eighteen; older men and women can no longer hit on me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But I was sixteen now and that dream was fading. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At sixteen I am worldly by some people’s standards, and by anyone’s I’m devoted. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The first time I kissed Bas: He was sixteen, I was fifteen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Even at sixteen, David knows what he wants to do: go to college and study medicine. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Two hundred and sixteen rings, and I still haven’t figured them out. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “We were afraid the Russians would slaughter us all,” said Lothar Loewe, age sixteen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He was a jerkline skinner, the prince of the ranch, capable of driving ten, sixteen, even twenty mules with a single line to the leaders. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z "I found sixteen jars. Here, hand me the shovel." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The sheriff gave me a lengthy and severe lecture about driving without a license, and he made me promise that I would not drive again until I was sixteen. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z There are fifteen or sixteen others with me, men and women looking as lost as I am, gathered around a desk with the inevitable German and the inevitable stack of folders and forms. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z All sixteen available medics were ordered to keep working. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Bast took an- other breath—sixteen—and braced himself against the moment he feared would come. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I was sixteen years old, living in southern Delaware. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Amber had brown hair, which she said she was going to dye blond when she turned sixteen. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Ten minutes later, Mr. Nagahachi tells the captain he’ll buy the whole fish for sixteen dollars a pound, cash or certified check. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think they realize these are sixteen, seventeen, eighteen-year-old kids,” she once said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Congratulations to our top sixteen trainees!” says Director Van Helsing, raising a glass of strawberry punch. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I wrote to Erin—the woman Shawn had dated before and after Sadie, who I hadn’t seen since I was sixteen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was quite a sight, all right — sixteen Pickwells plus Maniac, plus a down-and-out golf caddie — eighteen so-called white faces and Mars Bar Thompson. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "Mr. Amber, you were also hired by Judge Ford, I assume to find out who everybody really was. Did you investigate all sixteen heirs for the judge?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have a brother and a sister. My sister’s fourteen and my brother is eight. I’m going on sixteen.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In 1987, all forty elected district attorneys in Alabama were white, even though there are sixteen majority-black counties in the state. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z According to that big prophecy, I was supposed to make a choice that saved or destroyed the world when I was sixteen. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He’d added at least sixteen new questions to his notebook since breakfast, mostly about being blind. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews "What!" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Had it simply been lost in the sixteen years that had elapsed since it had been written, or had it been taken by whoever had searched the room? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He thanked Steve Jobs, or, at least, quoted the Apple cofounder: In the first sixteen to eighteen years of our lives, we have lived between 140,160 hours to 157,680 hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I thought that sixteen was plenty old enough. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Regardless of the weather, the expedition rode mules and marched for over sixteen hours a day, sometimes through sheets of rain and slippery mud, sometimes under the baking sun. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I was only sixteen, but I didn’t tell the manager that and he hired me for forty hours a week. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “He’s not a doctor. And he’s only sixteen.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “I wish for a bed with a canopy and a box of sixteen crayons instead of eight.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of teens who received the alert today, but there are only eighty-nine registered Deckers between the ages of sixteen and eighteen online right now. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Eight double seats on each side makes sixteen on the left, sixteen on the right. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “There are sixteen official Warcross teams,” the announcer now goes on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One girl sat on Louie while the rest gave him sixteen whacks on the rear, plus one to grow on. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The boy, no older than sixteen, darted his head back and forth, apparently looking for cops, customers, or both. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She is about sixteen years old and very pretty. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Young as he look, he done tracked down sixteen runaway slaves by hisself. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “Yeah, all ages. From babies right up to sixteen, I suppose.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z At sixteen, I didn’t have the money to buy a Cadillac, but she had her own fine “rubber,” as we called a car in those days. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I spread my napkin in my lap, then cut my turkey into two pieces, then four, then eight, then sixteen white bites. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Though he was only sixteen and had never even trained at the distance, he won by fifty yards. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “When I was sixteen, I left home and told my mother I was going to find my father’s killer. I was gone for six days.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He had become sixteen when winter turned to spring in 1943, but he had no way of knowing which day was his actual birthday. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Underneath the lighthouse’s copper dome lay sixteen reflecting prisms and four projecting lenses floating in a bath of mercury. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z For my last few tournaments in New Jersey, I’d been finishing in the top sixteen consistently and sometimes I was even finishing in the top ten. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In 1881, when he was sixteen, Rondon joined the army and earned a scholarship to the Military Academy in Rio de Janeiro, twelve hundred miles away from his home. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z On 29 January 2016 the South Korean government passes a law giving incentives to citizens who use Mind’s Eye for a minimum of sixteen hours daily. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The police have their hands full trying to track down the many girls of fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and older who are reported missing every day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Whatever. It’s meat, right? M-E-A-T. I feel like I’m about sixteen already. I can feel myself growing.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked like they were sixteen, and I looked like I was ten. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Back home in Africa, the grandparents of her fiance arranged to give our grandparents sixteen cows in exchange for Adele's hand in marriage, per tradition. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z So Gramps took Dad out along the empty country lanes in his pickup truck, just like he’d done with the rest of Dad’s siblings—except they’d all learned to drive when they were sixteen. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The second day those forty-eight fencers from the first day join the top sixteen seeded fencers in the world to complete the elimination rounds of the tableau of sixty-four. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Kay and three other girls are here, too, but two are sixteen and the other is seventeen. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A wolf pack misses its prey sixteen out of twenty tries. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She is exhausted and spent, in the same way she is after her day’s work is done, her sixteen miles on the road. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Blue Team’s sixteen lost ships, which were lying at the bottom of the Persian Gulf, were refloated. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Besides, do I really want to see that moon grinning at me with all its ten thousand and sixteen fangs? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I'm sure you understand that there's nothing sadder than a sixteen- year-old boy home alone on Halloween answering the door in full costume. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z His list ends up at sixteen, four of which are put-downs of Italians, which doesn’t even make sense because Skeezie doesn’t have an ounce of Italian blood in him. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Now that Faizah was fencing, she could help my parents understand the intricacies of competitions and explain that making the round of sixteen at an international competition was a huge achievement. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z |
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