How to Use tenfold in a Sentence

tenfold

adjective
  • This is the highest it’s been since May 7 and a tenfold increase from the rate’s lowest point in June.
    Nicole Stock, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The value is up more than tenfold to $5.11 billion and fourth overall.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Over a tenfold increase, or more than a 1,000% increase.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 5 Sep. 2019
  • But that is a tiny increase in comparison with the tenfold spike in the areas around the five sites shown to Amazon.
    Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Across the country, forest fires have increased by almost tenfold over the past two decades.
    New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • There’s a lot more talk about ESG investing in the media these days, a tenfold increase in the past few months, by our measure.
    Emily Chasan, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • In June, the overall prison phone bill increased more than tenfold, to nearly $2.4 million.
    Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • That’s a more than tenfold jump from the number of residents who called Meridian home in 1990.
    Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Out of the box, the Arista solution provides a tenfold improvement.
    Jon Markman, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The tenfold increase is in comparison to what the clinics were seeing a this time last year, a spokeswoman said.
    Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2022
  • Each whole number increase — from, say, 3 to 4, or 6 to 7 — is a tenfold increase in amplitude.
    Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
  • Thanks to a tenfold increase in its stock price, the company has regained ground on its two larger rivals.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • According to Moody’s, in the last three decades, the value of Mexican exports has increased by more than tenfold.
    Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The report shows that requests have spiked dramatically in the last three years, rising as much as tenfold in some states.
    Sidney Fussell, Wired, 27 Aug. 2021
  • At the highest dose (and, thus, the highest number of particles instilled), there was a nearly tenfold rise in the number of lung tumors.
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Once the park service opened the doors to the public, there was an immediate tenfold increase in visitors.
    Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
  • But if there are challenges to cooking for small groups — the difficulties of opening a restaurant are tenfold.
    Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • That's a tenfold increase from November, when MedStar was handling around two flu calls per day.
    Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Health workers have been struggling for more than year to contain a scabies outbreak and manage a tenfold increase in dengue fever.
    Mohammad Faruque, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The state has received reports of 969 dry household wells in California this year, a tenfold increase from last year.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2021
  • By 2050, Los Angeles expects up to a tenfold increase in the frequency of extreme heat waves.
    Kyla Thomas, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2021
  • In 2014 the rover measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it.
    Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
  • In 2014, the rover measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it.
    Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 19 June 2018
  • That's about a tenfold increase in normal volume, said Paul Malley, the group's president.
    Jonel Aleccia, CNN, 31 Mar. 2020
  • In 2020, the county saw a tenfold increase in hate incident reports, Edwards said.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • At the same time, the global addressable market for games will increase tenfold and game sales will double by 2030, Pachter estimates.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Last year, a record amount of cargo went through there, according to the Russian Ministry of Transport, and Moscow expects a tenfold increase in cargo on the route by 2025.
    chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • In the same period, the earth’s population has more than tripled, from around 2.3 billion to around 8.0 billion, and global GDP has increased more than tenfold.
    Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The sector has leaped more than tenfold in total market value since this point in the last election cycle two years ago, topping $2.1 trillion as of Wednesday.
    Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The pH scale is logarithmic, so a decrease of one full unit – say, from 8 to 7 – represents a tenfold increase in acidity.
    Tacey Hicks, Chron, 7 Feb. 2023

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