How to Use fivefold in a Sentence

fivefold

adjective
  • There has been a fivefold increase in membership this year.
  • That’s more than a fivefold increase in income over three decades.
    Steve Booren, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Moderna’s stock price has climbed more than fivefold this year.
    Cristin Flanagan, Bloomberg.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Moore Threads stocks rose more than fivefold on the Shanghai stock exchange.
    semafor.com, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Over the last year, the startup has seen its membership grow tenfold and its revenue grow fivefold.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, his phone bill and electricity bill have jumped fivefold.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 15 June 2026
  • In the last 25 years, the average company has grown about fivefold.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • That was before delta took hold, and on July 25, the ratio had dropped to about a fivefold greater risk.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The largest growth was among Black families, with a fivefold increase, but all racial groups tracked have seen increases.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Over the past 15 years, the number of companies backed by private equity has grown fivefold.
    Richard Hickman, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • That’s a fivefold price increase, and X didn't let Premium customers know in advance.
    James Peckham, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
  • That’s more than a fivefold increase from 2018, when just four homicides occurred in the neighborhood.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Of course, the signature token has already risen fivefold since September.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • But during rest, the brain replayed about 25 repetitions of the sequence, and that’s a fivefold increase over the same amount of time.
    Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 7 July 2021
  • That is a fivefold increase in prize money from last year, which could help explain why players who normally skip doubles suddenly wanted in.
    New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The study also found the percentage of men without any close friends jumped from 3 percent to 15 percent, a fivefold increase.
    Daniel Cox, National Review, 6 July 2021
  • The company’s net income of $293 million was up almost fivefold from a year earlier.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Both silver at the 1980 mountaintop and Bitcoin today have ridden a fivefold jump in six months.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Since the beginning of the year, Top Glove's share price has rocketed fivefold on the Bursa Malaysia.
    Julie Zaugg, CNN, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Sales have multiplied more than fivefold between 2024 and 2025.
    Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Its welfare spending grew fivefold, its healthcare spending quadrupled, and its education budget doubled.
    Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
  • That’s more than a fivefold increase, adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to operating budgets and millions to development costs.
    Jenna Abbott, Oc Register, 30 Nov. 2025
  • But in turn, online sales for mushroom products, including the kits, picked up fivefold and wholesale demand from grocery stores like Whole Foods helped make up for the loss.
    Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2020
  • Lazy prompts or needless iterations can multiply expenses fivefold to tenfold.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Bitcoin has soared around 60 percent this year, while Ether, the cryptocurrency tied to the Ethereum blockchain, has increased more than fivefold in value.
    New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Until May, the stock had been among the best performers in the semiconductor index, logging a more than fivefold gain since 2016.
    Jeran Wittenstein, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
  • The discovery comes as work-from-home routines have driven a more than fivefold increase in the use of Webex between February and June.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Whether researchers ultimately achieve the agency’s ambitious fivefold-to-tenfold improvement remains to be seen.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 June 2026
  • Security spending for congressional and presidential campaigns has jumped fivefold over the past decade.
    ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The Argonne team hopes to demonstrate a fivefold increase in task efficiency within the next year as development progresses.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026

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