How to Use sixfold in a Sentence

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• The price of bitcoin, the cryptocurrency, has risen more than sixfold in the past year.
  — Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 7 May 2021
• Investors bought in, driving the shares up more than sixfold.
  — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
• The camps lead to a sixfold increase in rates of depression and eight times the rate of suicide in the people who go through them.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
• The city recorded a sixfold increase in patients in a matter of weeks.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2020
• Since the start of the outbreak, WHO said prices have surged, with surgical masks seeing a sixfold increase.
  — NBC News, 4 Mar. 2020
• Hospital staff expect a sixfold increase in patients in the Madras ER around the eclipse.
  — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• Anxiety is linked to a sixfold increase in burnout rates.
  — Gary Beckstrand, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
• Revenue, which Rec Room earns when users make in-game purchases, grew more than sixfold year-over-year in 2020.
  — Matt Grossman, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
• That’s a nearly sixfold increase from two months ago, when there were 2,226 patients.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
• That figure represents a more than sixfold increase compared to the first half of last year.
  — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• That implies a sixfold increase in real value over the decade.
  — Robert J. Shiller, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• Plus, new daily infections have plateaued over the last two weeks, and are still up more than sixfold from the pre-delta summertime low.
  — Joe Walsh, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• Meanwhile, the percentage of Afghan girls who attend secondary school has grown more than sixfold.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 18 Apr. 2021
• The sixfold increase took place in the first four months of the Iranian year (from March 21 to July 22), reported Tasnim agency.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 27 July 2022
• Peloton shares, which grew roughly sixfold amid the pandemic, fell by more than 7% on Monday.
  — Sharon Terlep, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
• Our team and others have shown that the sixfold increase in CO2 during the end-Permian collapse happened over the course of perhaps tens of thousands of years.
  — Chris Mays, Scientific American, 23 June 2022
• Disney shareholders, in the meantime, have seen a sixfold increase in their stock’s value since 2005.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• Their data shows battery costs falling more than sixfold since 2010.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2020
• The drop occurred despite a sixfold increase in testing at public health labs, most of which checked for influenza A and B along with the coronavirus.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2021
• The Pentagon also announced a sixfold increase in production of heavy artillery shells to meet the demand in Ukraine.
  — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• Girls wrestling, while not yet recognized as its own IHSA sport, saw more than 670 participants, a sixfold increase in just three years.
  — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• On average, France has recorded one fatal shooting every two and a half months since the law passed, compared with one every 16 months before the law — a sixfold increase.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• The study also found a nearly sixfold increase in ectopic pregnancies -- when the fertilized egg grows outside a woman's uterus, the review found.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 Apr. 2021
• Interest rates were closer to zero for nine out of the last 13 years, during which time wind and solar generation increased more than sixfold.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 21 June 2022
• There are currently around 1.5 million civilians there, most of whom are living in tents—an almost sixfold increase in the population since the war began.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2024
• That had jumped to 6.5 million prescriptions last year — a more than sixfold increase over the 15-year period, according to data from IMS Health, a drug market research firm.
  — John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• In August, an Upstate New York poison control center warned parents of a sixfold increase in calls about children consuming foods with cannabis.
  — Ellen McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
• Namibia’s wildlife numbers have grown sixfold since the ’60s, when private landowners first were given rights to use the animals for economic benefit.
  — Kit Ramgopal and Matt Cooke, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2017
• Disease Control and Prevention numbers showed nearly a sixfold increase in omicron's share of infections in just one week.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
• California properties at risk of wildfire are expected to see a sixfold increase in 30 years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022

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