How to Use twofold in a Sentence

twofold

adjective
  • The aims of the study are twofold.
  • The stock is now up more than twofold since the start of the year.
    Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Hutchinson said the goal of the tax cut law was twofold.
    Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The factors that pushed me over the edge, though, were twofold.
    Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022
  • Why High-Vis Works The point of high-vis gear is twofold.
    Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The reason the full moon rides so high across the night sky this time of year is twofold.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 8 Dec. 2019
  • The reason the park is hustling from sport to sport, event to event, is twofold.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • But the surgeon’s gift to me was twofold: sight, and insight.
    Liane Kupferberg Carter, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The reasons are twofold: for stress relief and for food.
    Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 29 June 2020
  • In the broad picture, the importance of this stretch is twofold.
    Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The problems pushing new cars out of reach are twofold.
    Rachel Siegel, Jeanne Whalen, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
  • The impact of the coronavirus on world hunger is twofold.
    David Beasley, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2020
  • But the other thing about it that was alarming was twofold.
    Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Honkanen's mission for the North Pole Igloos is twofold.
    Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The dangers of seeing a decline at that time are twofold.
    Aaron Cirksena, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Where to eat and drink: Compline is twofold — there is a wine shop, and just steps away, a restaurant.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The good news about the stock sale for Tesla shareholders is twofold.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Nvidia fell 3%, though the chipmaker is still up more than twofold this year.
    Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The appeal of a Viking burial, for instance, was twofold.
    Lisa Wells, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The solution is twofold: First, there needs to be a border.
    Arkansas Online, 9 Jan. 2023
  • My concern is twofold: 1. stopping the run game after the LOS. 2.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 21 July 2021
  • The advantages for making the change and doing away with lets seem to me twofold.
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • And that’s really twofold — that’s for both the linebackers.
    Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Tighten a Loose Deck Step The secret to curing a loose step board on a deck is twofold.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2020
  • That purpose is twofold: to find out and tell the truth about the past; and to promote democratic values in the present.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The reasons for not renewing are twofold, a source told frontofficesports.com.
    Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 2 July 2021
  • The objectives are twofold: First, to try to win over a handful of black voters.
    Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The point for head distiller Adam Hannett and the Bruichladdich team was twofold.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The reason the government wants to know these details is twofold.
    Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The underlying passion that drives it is twofold, and both have to do with parents and childbirth.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024

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