How to Use quadruple in a Sentence

quadruple

1 of 3 verb
Definition of quadruplenext
  • The value of the stock has quadrupled in the past year.
  • The company has quadrupled the number of its employees.
  • The town's population has quadrupled in the past 50 years.
  • That’s more than quadruple the cost of a new iPhone and 14 times the cost of a competing headset from Meta.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Enter Email Sign Up The robberies have more than quadrupled over a decade, the data show.
    — David Sharp, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
  • Oil prices quadrupled nearly overnight and remained high for over a decade.
    — Jim Krane, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The drop wipes out about $1.5 billion in market value from the stock, which had more than quadrupled at its peak.
    — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • At faster tempos—when the sonata was played at double and quadruple the original speed—the rats didn’t move much.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The data also showed that the rate of car theft around downtown Los Angeles has quadrupled over the past 10 years.
    — Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • At its peak in November 2021, the value of the overall crypto market had quadrupled since the start of that year.
    — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • In the years following the attendance tripled and then quadrupled in numbers.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The chipmaker is now the fourth most-valuable public company in the world, as its stock has more than quadrupled over the last 15 months.
    — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Theaters have raced to add showings, with the number nearly quadrupling in the first week.
    — Siyi Zhao, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • And Markell Washington doubled down — or quadrupled down, more like — on the trend Sunday evening.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Lithium prices quadrupled from 2017 to last November, but have since dropped by two-thirds.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Imports of the former from both India and the latter from Vietnam have each quadrupled, albeit from a low base.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The new building will nearly quadruple the size of her existing space.
    — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Traders now see a one-in-three chance the Fed may hike its benchmark rate by a full percentage point next week, quadruple the usual move.
    — CBS News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • TikTok is looking to quadruple its merchandise sales by the end of the year to hit $20 billion, according to Bloomberg.
    — Jennifer Korn, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Leather pouf searches have tripled and searches for wood and marble coasters have quadrupled.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The project would also significantly expand the size of the zoo, more than quadrupling it.
    — Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Although wildfires have quadrupled in Hawaii in recent decades, the causes of this week's fires haven't been determined.
    — Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Inflation around the 19-country eurozone was 8.9% in July, more than quadruple the rate just a year ago.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Rosemary Spritz This recipe serves one but can be easily doubled, tripled or quadrupled.
    — Sutanya Dacres, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Images double, then quadruple back, as do in-jokes and references to the Cronenberg film (the show that Genevieve is working on is named Rabid).
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Similarly, the cost of a single dose of vaccine is expected to quadruple to $120.
    — Steve Brozak, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • It’s quadrupled over with four tight ropes — synthetic ropes that are super, super strong — that are going to hold the two bones together, okay?
    — Ainslie Lee | [email protected], al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The iPhone manufacturer is planning to quadruple its workforce in the Asian country.
    — José Adorno, BGR, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In the 1990s, spending at toy stores would almost quadruple during December.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And Shell is quadrupling its investment in EV chargers, but closing stores.
    — William Gavin, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2024
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quadruple

2 of 3 noun
  • That’s quadruple the offer from June, when the agency first asked the public for help in the case.
    — Elizabeth Earl For Alaska Journal Of Commerce, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Many people seem to live quadruple lives and not think anything of it.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Then come the double, triple, quadruple texts, and the multiple phone calls.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Tickets for the quadruple-threat bill are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 13 via livenation.com.
    — John Wenzel, The Know, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Adam set five quadruple-XL traps filled with massive amounts of Jif.
    — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Does a double name turn into a triple, or even a quadruple?
    — Rachel Gutman-Wei, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Joseph Eaton, 34, confessed to the April quadruple killing at a home in Maine, officials have said.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN, 21 June 2023
  • The crime rate in our state didn’t quadruple in the last few years, but our jail population did.
    — Van Moody, al, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Just call Natalie Dormer a triple threat... or, rather, a quadruple threat.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • White was charged in an April 2021 quadruple shooting that left two people dead.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The quadruple winning side had won six league titles in seven years.
    — SI.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • It was believed to be Dallas’ first quadruple homicide in years.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The incident marked the second quadruple murder in the northern part of the state since November.
    — CBS News, 20 June 2023
  • The quadruple Axel has never before been landed in a Grand Prix event.
    — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
  • That meant working with Norman Lear again, which was like a quadruple blessing.
    — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Those who were able to take advantage of the market have seen their home values double or even quadruple in the last decade.
    — Amber Randall, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Fox News notes that online sellers of these stickers have seen demand quadruple in the past month.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2022
  • She’s known for being the only woman to land a quadruple-twisting triple backflip in an event.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Nathan Chen is one of the greatest jumpers of a generation that normalized the quadruple.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022
  • If Xavi's men want to keep hopes of a quadruple alive, the shirt that has a map of Barcelona city center embedded into its background has to prove a good omen.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The quadruple consists of four full revolutions in the air before the skater, less than a second later, lands on one foot.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Police are still searching for a white Hyundai Elantra that was spotted near the scene of the Idaho quadruple homicide in the early morning hours of Nov. 13.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • An uncomfortable minute passes as the quadruple amputee swears and screams at the deputy, who uses one forearm to hold him pressed to the ground.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The average of three price targets suggests the stock could more than quadruple from its current $4 a share level.
    — Angel Adegbesan, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The county is now on pace to see the number of new daily coronavirus cases double in two weeks and quadruple in a month, Ghaly said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The victory for Democrats comes after more than $45 million was spent on the state Supreme Court race — more than quadruple what was spent in the last race and more than triple the national record.
    — Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
  • This is why people refer to masking as, like, single and double and triple and quadruple masking.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 May 2020
  • Not this year, as 12 people have died in four double homicides and one quadruple homicide, all shootings.
    — oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Despite the newness of the program, Grassl’s creative spins, combined with his clean quadruple Lutz, impressed both the judges and the audience, earning an 88.43.
    — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Pelican’s new Long/Deep line of protective polymer satchels in the lighter Air Case line will see quadruple duty.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 7 Apr. 2020
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quadruple

3 of 3 adjective
  • She ordered a quadruple espresso.
  • And big butts are one-fourth of the quadruple-threat that makes the perfect snapper.
    — Dallas News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The album went quadruple platinum in both the U.S. and Canada.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Auburn’s last road loss in the series was a quadruple-overtime thriller in 2015.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The news came after the 15-year-old skater became the first woman to land a quadruple jump at an Olympics.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Double the volume of my beard oils (or even quadruple), this 4 oz.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 15 May 2022
  • Would Yuzuru Hanyu try to regain his—and maybe land a quadruple axel in the process?
    — Joyce Rubin, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2022
  • That’s a quadruple feat — TDs by an interception, a throw, a run and a catch.
    — Jim Lindgren, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Friends of Mullins continue to send out calls for help as Mullins learns how to live life as a quadruple amputee.
    — Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Over the years, dozens confessed to the quadruple homicide but were released, their stories of guilt just that: stories.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Year-to-date through July, the number of wildfires the EU was quadruple the 15-year average.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Tolan needed cast members who weren’t just triple threats, but quadruple threats.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • After a drop, Johnson flew the green with a wedge -- forcing him to chip back down the slope before two-putting for his quadruple bogey.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • The first quadruple jump of any kind came from a chase; the first triple immediately unleashed a slew of others.
    — Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • No cause was given, though Dawson had had prostate cancer and quadruple heart-bypass surgery over the years.
    — Dave Skretta, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Performers must make landing a quadruple toe loop look like a lark.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Chen entered the free skate with a 5.85-point lead over Japan's Yuma Kagiyama, who left even more room with a stumble on a quadruple loop.
    — Amy Bass, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Miura, the leader after the short program, fell on his opening quadruple loop, but went on to land three others to stay on the medal stand.
    — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Those of us with an eagle eye view of the proceedings saw quadruple coverage.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
  • That would be quadruple the size of the usual move, and no one in the futures market was predicting such a hike a day earlier.
    — CBS News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Kitchens had quadruple bypass surgery and a heart valve replacement in Huntsville in September of 2021.
    — Ben Thomas | [email protected], al, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Her success led the police to ask for her help with a cold case involving a quadruple murder in New Hampshire.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Harrison said there have already been four quadruple shootings so far this year, compared to none at the same time last year.
    — Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
  • After rotating only once in his first quadruple jump in his short program at that Olympics, Hanyu was in eighth place.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • Angel Strunk is facing the quadruple whammy of being forced to pay her rent this month, come up with a damage deposit and pay a first and last month's rent for a new rental.
    — Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2023
  • That would be quadruple the usual move, and no one in the futures market was predicting such a hike a day earlier.
    — Time, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Testing revealed heart issues that ended in quadruple bypass surgery in December and repair of a hole in my heart the size of a 12 gauge in March.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The quadruple murder suspect has not yet gone to trial, and a judge entered not guilty pleas on his behalf in May to four murder charges and felony burglary.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Judge also denied a motion to dismiss the quadruple murder charges against Kohberger, citing potential delays to the case, and denied a defense request to appeal to the Idaho Supreme Court.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Today’s poll puts that figure at 33%, and that nearly quadruple increase was seen among all voters, with some demographics showing bigger gains than others.
    — David Paleologos, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024

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