How to Use sevenfold in a Sentence

sevenfold

adjective

• There has been a sevenfold increase in membership in the past year.
• Videos demonstrate the donning of hijabs and saris, and the making of the Panama hat and the sevenfold necktie.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
• That amounts to about a sevenfold increase in the usual rate, director of programs Amy Klinger said.
  — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• In Georgia, about 60% of outbreaks in the state over the last two months are happening in K-12 schools, a sevenfold increase from July.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• In Washington state, those attacks rose almost sevenfold last year to 20, the data shows.
  — Paige Cornwell, The Seattle Times, 31 Oct. 2018
• The drop might have been bigger but for a sevenfold increase in concessions that landlords offered.
  — Noah Buhayar, Bloomberg.com, 16 Sep. 2020
• Cases of the new variant have been doubling every two days, with a sevenfold increase in the prevalence of the omicron variant in the last week-- proving itself to be even more transmissible than the delta variant.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2021
• Facebook's ascent in elections has been rapid, mirroring its sevenfold increase in value since the company went public in 2012.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Oct. 2017
• The gas’s potential to clean up hard-to-decarbonize sectors like steel and long-haul transport underpins expectations of a sevenfold increase in the global market by 2050.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
• The city of Vancouver has filed a lawsuit to block the pipeline, arguing that the accompanying sevenfold increase in traffic by oil tankers poses a serious threat to aquatic life and water safety.
  — Ben Adler, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
• About a fifth of potential passengers in California now end up not finding a ride, a sevenfold increase from previously.
  — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2021
• Even more dramatic increases in homicide rates occurred in Jamaica and the Republic of Ireland after their gun bans, with sixfold or sevenfold increases.
  — John R. Lott Jr., National Review, 8 Oct. 2017
• Officials are reporting more than 7,000 new infections each day, a sevenfold increase from late February.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• Following approval, the 10 drugs together brought in $67 billion, the researchers also concluded — a more than sevenfold return on investment.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2017
• A popular hotel chain in the United Kingdom even issued sleepwalker-care guidelines to staff members after noting a sevenfold increase in sleepwalking patrons over one year, 95 percent of whom were men wandering out of their rooms naked.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2017
• Michigan has experienced a sevenfold increase in cases since late February.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2021
• Annual profit has nearly quintupled, share value has risen sevenfold, and sales have increased for 16 consecutive quarters.
  — Ellen Byron, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
• Sealed law enforcement requests to track Americans without a warrant through cellphone location records or Internet activity grew sevenfold in the past three years in the District, new information released by a federal judge in the District shows.
  — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 18 July 2017
• Morrison has said the India ban was prompted by a sevenfold increase in the percentage of travelers from India testing positive for the coronavirus at a quarantine facility near Darwin, in northern Australia.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
• By comparison, the same analysis gave California a sevenfold impact and Florida a fourfold impact.
  — Steven Lerner, Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2020
• Cybercriminals have been very effective at exploiting this, evidenced by recent spikes in attacks targeting older technologies deployed on home networks and a sevenfold increase in ransomware attacks during the second half of 2020.
  — Fortinet Contributor, Forbes, 14 June 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024