Examples of eightfold in a Sentence
There has been an eightfold increase in membership in the past year.
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Nvidia has climbed 83% so far this year, a rate more than eightfold faster than the S&P 500.
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Max Zahn, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2024
Irrigated acres for soybean, mostly used for animals, has jumped eightfold.
—Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
The study says the last 30 years shows an eightfold increase in infections with an 18 percent mortality rate.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
Blood samples from people who had been infected with the original omicron variant saw an almost eightfold drop in neutralizing antibody production when tested against the BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages, the study, led by the Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa, showed.
—Fortune, 1 May 2022
Operations have now rebounded beyond prewar levels, according to the office, with 9,120 marriages recorded at the main registry and satellite branches elsewhere in the capital in the first five months of the war — a more than eightfold leap from 1,110 in the same period in the previous year.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
In Puerto Rico, apprehensions of migrants by U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Ramey Sector in Aguadilla have reached 816 since Oct. 1, a more than eightfold increase over the same period a year earlier, said Scott Garrett, acting chief patrol agent.
—Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
The scene ramified in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, when the city’s Mexican population grew eightfold.
—David Kortava, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2022
The eightfold increase in natural gas prices since the war began presents a historic threat to Europe’s industrial might, living standards, and social peace and cohesion.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
Max Zahn, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2024
Irrigated acres for soybean, mostly used for animals, has jumped eightfold.
—Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
The study says the last 30 years shows an eightfold increase in infections with an 18 percent mortality rate.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
Blood samples from people who had been infected with the original omicron variant saw an almost eightfold drop in neutralizing antibody production when tested against the BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages, the study, led by the Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa, showed.
—Fortune, 1 May 2022
Operations have now rebounded beyond prewar levels, according to the office, with 9,120 marriages recorded at the main registry and satellite branches elsewhere in the capital in the first five months of the war — a more than eightfold leap from 1,110 in the same period in the previous year.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
In Puerto Rico, apprehensions of migrants by U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Ramey Sector in Aguadilla have reached 816 since Oct. 1, a more than eightfold increase over the same period a year earlier, said Scott Garrett, acting chief patrol agent.
—Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
The scene ramified in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, when the city’s Mexican population grew eightfold.
—David Kortava, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2022
The eightfold increase in natural gas prices since the war began presents a historic threat to Europe’s industrial might, living standards, and social peace and cohesion.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
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“Eightfold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eightfold. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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