How to Use fourfold in a Sentence

fourfold

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• There has been a fourfold increase in membership this year.
• The Black Keys have yet to accomplish the fourfold feat.
  — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2019
• The purple hardback is about 9 inches square, with a fourfold poster and a 45 r.p.m.
  — Finn Cohen, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2016
• Haft said their use increased more than fourfold since the beginning of the year.
  — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• The per capita death rate in the south is nearly fourfold higher.
  — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2021
• The best were able to handle a fourfold increase in flow rate with no loss of performance.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• The stock, which entered the public markets in April 2019, has increased more than fourfold this year.
  — Nico Grant, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• Legal opinions vary as to what the prince might do, but his options appear to be fourfold.
  — Zoe Magee, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2021
• Today, the team is worth nearly $1 billion – a fourfold increase in just over a decade.
  — Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2023
• One study of 2,000 people showed a fourfold increase in heart attack risk in the two hours after eating a big meal.
  — Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
• Ford’s electric vehicle sales were up fourfold last month compared to the same time last year.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2022
• Engels has said that since the casinos closed, the number of people seeking help at the county’s food bank has jumped fourfold.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 7 June 2020
• But 25 percent of apartments built so far this decade in Greater Seattle have central A/C — a fourfold increase over the old days.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2017
• In New York City, those cases were up fourfold in December.
  — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
• In tests, a Violet robot has been able to get the job done in 15 minutes, a fourfold increase in turnaround time.
  — Corinne Purtill, Time, 24 Apr. 2020
• Young adults 18 to 23 years old showed a fourfold increase in meth use without injection.
  — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2021
• The reasons to recognize the sovereignty of the Republic of China are fourfold.
  — WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
• The team found there has been a fourfold increase in releases of nitrous oxide from global rivers and streams since 1900.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 15 Jan. 2020
• Hospitalizations statewide surged past 8,000 for the first time over the July Fourth weekend, a more than fourfold increase in the past month.
  — Adriana Gomez Licon and Lisa Marie Pane, The Enquirer, 7 July 2020
• The number of active cases has risen nearly fourfold since the end of October.
  — Robert Tuttle, Bloomberg.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• The past three years have seen a fourfold increase in hepatitis C and a slight uptick in HIV related to injection drug use.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2017
• This year's bee has 516 spellers, roughly a fourfold increase over Natarajan's first bee.
  — Ben Nuckols, Fox News, 29 May 2018
• The value of these metals increased as much as fourfold during the pandemic.
  — Joe Murphy, NBC News, 8 July 2022
• The national outdoor gear store REI said cycling equipment sales are up fourfold over last year.
  — Max Lockie, Quartz, 2 July 2020
• This year, the Forest Service laid out new plans to focus on outcomes and ramp up treatments fourfold in the West, reducing risk on 20 million acres in the next decade.
  — Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2022
• Threats against members of Congress jumped more than fourfold after Mr. Trump took office.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• Carter said his family farm has grown customers fourfold since 2016.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
• Bitcoin, for instance, is still sitting on a more than fourfold advance over the period.
  — Joanna Ossinger, Fortune, 17 May 2021
• The number of minors arriving without a parent has grown to more than 300 each day in recent weeks, a more than fourfold increase since last fall.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
• According to a 2021 study Bennett conducted, an intensive farm with no shade will see a fourfold decline in the total number of bird species there.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024