How to Use threefold in a Sentence

threefold

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• That is a more than threefold increase over just two years ago.
  — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 1 Mar. 2020
• The planning started in 2016 and the challenge was threefold.
  — Melissa Yeager, The Arizona Republic, 22 Oct. 2021
• For the first three months of the year, revenue for that type of clothing was up nearly threefold over a year ago.
  — Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2022
• Over the summer, the family’s goals for their children, ages 9, 6, and 3, were threefold.
  — Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2022
• Last week, the lowest quote from a mainstream agency was $182 a day—a threefold increase.
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• The records show that Google’s water use is up threefold since 2017, the year before the company opened a third data center in The Dalles.
  — oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2022
• The likelihood to die from the illness is more than threefold compared with those who are younger, Flynn said.
  — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 2 Oct. 2020
• The death toll marked a threefold jump from the official figure of 99 deaths released Thursday last week.
  — Eva Xiao, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2021
• Its shares have risen threefold in the past five years, including a 60% run since January.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
• The challenges for most prospective homebuyers in the D.C. region are threefold: high mortgage rates, high home prices and a lack of homes for sale.
  — Michele Lerner, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• That’s going to change next year, when the price from fields where gas isn’t a byproduct of crude production will increase threefold or more.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2019
• The benefit for studios is threefold: first, use of AI is now agreed on by both sides, in principle.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
• The number of parking violations and cars towed were each up almost threefold from the weekend of June 19 and 20.
  — Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2021
• The reasons the White endorsement went on page one, however, were threefold.
  — cleveland, 21 Aug. 2021
• People in fair or poor health were almost threefold more likely to do so than those in excellent or very good health.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 2 June 2023
• That was a threefold increase from a month earlier, the analysis showed.
  — Justin Scheck, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
• The threefold checklist includes examining the scope, fairness and road map of these plans.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2021
• Some predict a threefold increase in Alzheimer’s cases alone.
  — Allan Hugh Cole Jr., Fortune, 16 Jan. 2018
• The end to months of tranquility came fast, with the VIX soaring as much as threefold in just three days as $3 trillion was wiped from equities.
  — Joanna Ossinger, Bloomberg.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• An hour and a half from Cincinnati, the small city of Seymour is bracing itself for a threefold increase in population for the eclipse.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
• The number of tourists in the Kashmir Valley, the government says, has increased to more than two million this year, a threefold jump from the previous year.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• Since 2002, the average acreage burned by wildfires in these three states has increased nearly threefold.
  — Oliver Whang, National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2020
• However just because the lightning in the area has increased threefold does not mean that wildfires have increased at this same rate.
  — Allison Chinchar and Haley Brink, CNN, 28 Mar. 2021
• Broadcom claims a two-to-threefold improvement in pairing time.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2020
• The economic return on investment for those changes would be at least threefold in all the countries reviewed and up to fifty-fold in others.
  — Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• The benefit of keeping their account as private (or as private as can be) is threefold.
  — Erin Hahn, CNN, 5 Feb. 2023
• Candidates needed to meet the threefold test, of ridding the marble of the film, while saving the stone and doing no harm to the monument’s surroundings.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2017
• Each level of the tower is an exact threefold covering of the level below it.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2020
• That dismal number is the result of a threefold failure of communication on Merkel’s part.
  — Thorsten Benner, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2016
• The airline's specific routes, which fly to places like Mazatlán, Mexico, Texas, and Ohio, have seen a threefold increase in demand compared to previous years.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024