I found a wonderful lot of breeding cows, the bulk of them at least fifteen-sixteenths and only requiring a vigorous culling process to bring them to a remarkably high standard.
Joe, get this gentleman a joint of three-sixteenths of an inch, buttered.
The circular surface of the seal or signet is five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter and the size of the ring is three-quarter inch.
Your warp will be strung three-sixteenths inch, but the black threads will be three-eighths inch.
This makes a close warp of three-sixteenths inch, which helps to form the design with the woof threads.
Awls are used for holes up to about three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter.
Not bad for five-sixteenths of an inch," said the bulwark-plate.
Note down this focal length, and proceed to measure your diaphragms in sixteenths of an inch.
A diaphragm measuring seven sixteenths will give the fraction f/17.
The Lower California species have two flat, black plumes about three-sixteenths of an inch in width and from three and a half to five inches long.
The plume of the San Pedro partridge is flat, about three-sixteenths of an inch wide and from three and a half to four and a half inches long.
This was, in the following March, changed to three sixteenths in the United States and one fourth in Europe.
The forms for these leaders are made from two to six-sixteenths of an inch in diameter; but four-sixteenths is the size generally made use of.
Their formers are from three-sixteenths to five-eighths of an inch in diameter; but the diameter of the cases must always be equal to two diameters of the former.
Take a short stitch about threesixteenths of an inch on the right of the line, slanting to the line.
An E flat in the bass of the third group of sixteenths leaves the whole composition floating enigmatically in thin air.
There are moths the wings of which do not cover more than three sixteenths of an inch in expanse, and there are moths with great bulky bodies and wings spreading from eight to nine inches.
The drawers are lined upon the bottom with cork five sixteenths of an inch thick, and are papered on the bottom and sides with good linen paper, which does not easily become discolored.
Boxes may be made of stout pasteboard about one eighth or threesixteenths of an inch thick, with a rabbet-tongue on the inside.
Cotton used for twist is grown in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, and the length of the staple varies from one to one and three-sixteenths inches.
When the entire edition is to be bound with a permanent cover, provision is made for three-sixteenths of an inch trim at the head.
Blank books are trimmed so that the standard sizes are reduced one-fourth of an inch for the length and three-sixteenths of an inch for the width.
All sewed books should have three-sixteenths of an inch for the fore-edge, and one-eighth of an inch for the head and tail trim margins.
Whilst this natural process is going on, you must take the large calipers and open them at three-sixteenths of an inch.
Then measure the height of this bridge, from belly to its top at centre, as one and five-sixteenths of an inch, nicely curving it so that ease of bowing is obtained, as spoken of before.
This latter is one and nine-sixteenths of an inch deep--one and seven-sixteenths of an inch broad, tapering to bare one inch at junction with the button.
Afterwards I mark the three-sixteenths for cheeks of peg-box.
The thickness of the wood must be one and eleven-sixteenths of an inch, ten inches in length--and broad enough to allow the outline to be properly cut for further operation.
Then I take centre of narrow end and mark off seven-sixteenths of an inch--width of said end, five-eighths of an inch for broad end.
I caliper good three-sixteenths of an inch at the centre of middle groove, one-eighth of an inch upper and lower, falling away very little to all edges for the present.
The size in sixteenths of an inch is stamped into the metal shank, but if this number is not distinct or for any reason is missing, the diameter may be measured by holding the rule across the knife edges.
As one quart of the southern corn weighs one pound and eleven-sixteenths of a pound, it follows that it would be about one pound and six-eighths of a pound.
When finished the diameter should be a trifle under three-eighths of an inch at the center and about five-sixteenths at the nock.
For hunting bows drawing over sixty pounds, the dowels should be three-eighths of an inch in diameter; for lighter bows five-sixteenths dowels should be used.
For these we use a five-sixteenths dowel, feather it with short, low cut parabolic feathers and put a small barbed head on it about an inch in length.
Having cut them to length, take a hand plane and shave the last six inches of the rear end or shaftment so that the diameter is reduced to a trifle more than five-sixteenths of an inch at the extremity.
This--the bow picked up a trifle from the strings--throws the sixteenths into relief.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sixteenths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
