SIXTEEN

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Traducere în limba română

sixteen numeral, substantiv

şaisprezece;

she is sixteen are şaisprezece ani.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I was sixteen years old when you were born.”

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

She is a handsome girl, about fifteen or sixteen, and, I understand, highly accomplished.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

But he had ended his speech in a way to sink her in sad mortification, by adding, If William does come to Mansfield, I hope you may be able to convince him that the many years which have passed since you parted have not been spent on your side entirely without improvement; though, I fear, he must find his sister at sixteen in some respects too much like his sister at ten.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

This man was a most ingenious artist, and according to my direction, in three weeks finished for me a wooden chamber of sixteen feet square, and twelve high, with sash-windows, a door, and two closets, like a London bed-chamber.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Elizabeth had succeeded, at sixteen, to all that was possible, of her mother's rights and consequence; and being very handsome, and very like himself, her influence had always been great, and they had gone on together most happily.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Sixteen, next month.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Michael haf sixteen hundred dollars.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

She will be married at sixteen!

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Her sister, though comparatively but little removed by matrimony, being settled in London, only sixteen miles off, was much beyond her daily reach; and many a long October and November evening must be struggled through at Hartfield, before Christmas brought the next visit from Isabella and her husband, and their little children, to fill the house, and give her pleasant society again.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Mrs. Fraser (no bad judge) declares she knows but three men in town who have so good a person, height, and air; and I must confess, when he dined here the other day, there were none to compare with him, and we were a party of sixteen.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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