How to Use eightfold in a Sentence

eightfold

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• There has been an eightfold increase in membership in the past year.
• In the last 10 years, the price of water there has gone up more than eightfold.
  — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2021
• So far this year, the stock has surged in value by more than eightfold.
  — Riley Griffin, Bloomberg.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• Since 1972, there has been an eightfold increase in the amount of land burned by summer forest fires.
  — National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2019
• While its stock has fallen in recent months, Tesla shares soared more than eightfold in 2020.
  — Eliot Brown, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021
• Its assets under management grew more than eightfold in the past decade.
  — Jing Yang, WSJ, 2 June 2021
• But since the company began working on its vaccine, the shares have soared, leaping by more than eightfold.
  — Robert Langreth, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2020
• Annual free cash flow—Broadcom’s true North Star—has grown nearly eightfold to $13.3 billion in that time.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 1 June 2022
• The study says the last 30 years shows an eightfold increase in infections with an 18 percent mortality rate.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
• The 4,000 devices per week were an eightfold increase from the company's output before the pandemic.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2020
• The 4,000 devices per week were an eightfold increase from the company’s output before the pandemic.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
• Similar strategies at other fast food chains have reportedly increased the amount of cheese on menu items as much as eightfold.
  — Crystal Heath, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
• The scene ramified in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, when the city’s Mexican population grew eightfold.
  — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2022
• This compares to a fourfold reduction for delta and an eightfold reduction for beta.
  — NBC News, 3 Dec. 2021
• To understand the impact of the episode-closing cannon attack, a more suitable comparison than the eightfold fence can be found in an earlier scene.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
• The eightfold path is a Buddhist guideline for living ethically and cultivating a world that brings an end to the causes of suffering.
  — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 3 June 2022
• But Secor’s data showed that sidewinders could increase their metabolism by almost eightfold — a bigger jump than anyone had seen in any species.
  — Daniel Engber, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• Seoul reported an eightfold increase in cases over four days, with 430-plus people in South Korea now infected.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2020
• Hospitalizations statewide have gone up more than eightfold in two months and nearly tenfold in Los Angeles County.
  — Brian Melley, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2021
• The crematories on one stretch of the river near Garh Mukteshwar, which includes the three adjacent villages, had an eightfold increase in the number of bodies from late April to early May, reaching 160 a day.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2021
• Over 125 million shares were traded Monday, nearly an eightfold increase from Friday.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 9 June 2021
• The eightfold increase in natural gas prices since the war began presents a historic threat to Europe’s industrial might, living standards, and social peace and cohesion.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• And when the new Turkish dam projects are completed in the next few years, as much as 1.2 million additional hectares inside Turkey will be irrigated—an eightfold increase from today.
  — Mukad Al Jabbari, Foreign Affairs, 23 Aug. 2015
• Irrigated acres for soybean, mostly used for animals, has jumped eightfold.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
• In California, hospitalizations have climbed more than eightfold in two months and nearly tenfold in Los Angeles County.
  — NBC News, 1 Jan. 2021
• Not surprisingly, some online learning platforms have seen an eightfold increase in enrollment.
  — Stefan Lederer, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• In unvaccinated samples, there was a nearly eightfold drop in antibodies against BA.4.
  — NBC News, 3 May 2022
• Acquisitions could help Caledonia boost its annual output more than eightfold to half a million ounces as the company considers investing $400 million in Zimbabwe over the next decade.
  — Felix Njini, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• Vaccines provide an eightfold reduction in people getting the disease and a 25-fold reduction in both Covid-19 related hospitalizations and deaths, Fauci said.
  — CNN, 4 Aug. 2021
• The report documents a raft of extraordinary allegations: One manager's salary increased more than eightfold over nine years, and an institute director was paid his own salary plus half the salary of an unfilled deputy position.
  — Nick Perry, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021