How to Use fivefold in a Sentence

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• There has been a fivefold increase in membership this year.
• The shares have surged more than fivefold since then and climbed as much as 6.3% in Thursday trading.
  — Cristin Flanagan, Bloomberg.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• That was before delta took hold, and on July 25, the ratio had dropped to about a fivefold greater risk.
  — Joel Achenbach and Fenit Nirappil, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2021
• Since the beginning of the year, Top Glove's share price has rocketed fivefold on the Bursa Malaysia.
  — Julie Zaugg, CNN, 11 Sep. 2020
• Moderna’s stock price has climbed more than fivefold this year.
  — Cristin Flanagan, Bloomberg.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• But during rest, the brain replayed about 25 repetitions of the sequence, and that’s a fivefold increase over the same amount of time.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 7 July 2021
• That’s more than a fivefold increase from 2018, when just four homicides occurred in the neighborhood.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• The largest growth was among Black families, with a fivefold increase, but all racial groups tracked have seen increases.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Feb. 2022
• The study also found the percentage of men without any close friends jumped from 3 percent to 15 percent, a fivefold increase.
  — Daniel Cox, National Review, 6 July 2021
• The fivefold increase was to roughly 1.2 million, not 1.4 million.
  — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2021
• Both silver at the 1980 mountaintop and Bitcoin today have ridden a fivefold jump in six months.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2021
• That was more than a fivefold increase in the percentage of expired certifications for the crews of those ships since the G.A.O.’s report in May 2015.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• Bitcoin has soared around 60 percent this year, while Ether, the cryptocurrency tied to the Ethereum blockchain, has increased more than fivefold in value.
  — New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• Until May, the stock had been among the best performers in the semiconductor index, logging a more than fivefold gain since 2016.
  — Jeran Wittenstein, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
• That was a fivefold increase over March 2020, and easily double the number of run-ins that agents would typically have in the springtime.
  — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021
• Now daily case counts around New York City have begun ticking up again, with an average of 6,600 each day in the metro area, a fivefold increase from the start of October.
  — Campbell Robertson, Star Tribune, 28 Nov. 2020
• The discovery comes as work-from-home routines have driven a more than fivefold increase in the use of Webex between February and June.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2020
• But in turn, online sales for mushroom products, including the kits, picked up fivefold and wholesale demand from grocery stores like Whole Foods helped make up for the loss.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2020
• The stock trading app Robinhood announced that 9.5 million of its customers had traded cryptocurrency in the first three months of the year — up more than fivefold from the previous three months.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• The company’s net income of $293 million was up almost fivefold from a year earlier.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2021
• The suspicion that an anchor might have caught and dragged the pipeline comes at a time when disruptions in the global supply chain, due to the pandemic, have led to a fivefold increase in traffic over the last few years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2021
• The software company’s shares have risen almost fivefold since then, boosting his fortune to $76.5 billion.
  — Tom Metcalf, Fortune, 9 July 2020
• Cases have increased more than fivefold in the Bay Area and statewide since California dropped almost all public health restrictions on June 15.
  — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 July 2021
• Of course, the signature token has already risen fivefold since September.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2021
• Even adjusted for inflation, that’s more than a fivefold increase.
  — Robert H. Frank, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• The Philippine capital will be back on a stricter lockdown starting Tuesday as coronavirus cases surged more than fivefold after curbs were eased in June.
  — Bloomberg.com, 2 Aug. 2020
• Consumer searches for outdoor seating increased fivefold last quarter from the same period in 2019, Yelp said.
  — Alexandre Tanzi, Bloomberg.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• Running for thousands of miles along the bottom of the sea from Portugal to South Africa, sources say the cable could increase internet speeds more than fivefold in some countries beginning in early 2023.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 8 Aug. 2022
• Lebanon, too, is now in the midst of an economic and political catastrophe; since October, 2019, its currency has lost ninety per cent of its value, and the cost of food has risen more than fivefold.
  — Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2021
• Since 2020, the brand’s customer base has expanded nearly fivefold, Diasti said, and building a loyal community through social and digital media was crucial to its growth.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024