How to Use fourfold in a Sentence

fourfold

adjective
  • There has been a fourfold increase in membership this year.
  • What accounts for this fourfold rise?
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The per capita death rate in the south is nearly fourfold higher.
    Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2021
  • Haft said their use increased more than fourfold since the beginning of the year.
    Erin Cox, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • The best were able to handle a fourfold increase in flow rate with no loss of performance.
    The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • Legal opinions vary as to what the prince might do, but his options appear to be fourfold.
    Zoe Magee, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Ford’s electric vehicle sales were up fourfold last month compared to the same time last year.
    Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2022
  • That’s a nearly fourfold increase from the first half of 2025.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Today, the team is worth nearly $1 billion – a fourfold increase in just over a decade.
    Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • In the end, then, there are just two ways to solve the puzzle of the fourfold exponentiation of π.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Bitcoin, for instance, is still sitting on a more than fourfold advance over the period.
    Joanna Ossinger, Fortune, 17 May 2021
  • Carter said his family farm has grown customers fourfold since 2016.
    Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The value of these metals increased as much as fourfold during the pandemic.
    Joe Murphy, NBC News, 8 July 2022
  • Engels has said that since the casinos closed, the number of people seeking help at the county’s food bank has jumped fourfold.
    Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 7 June 2020
  • Fox’s coverage brought the network a fourfold increase in ratings.
    Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 18 May 2017
  • Unemployment rose as remote work grew fourfold, the researchers write.
    Andrea Hsu, NPR, 1 June 2026
  • The risk of a psychotic disorder rose fourfold when highly potent weed was used daily, the study found.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Young adults 18 to 23 years old showed a fourfold increase in meth use without injection.
    The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The number of active cases has risen nearly fourfold since the end of October.
    Robert Tuttle, Bloomberg.com, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Micron is forecasting a more-than-fourfold increase year-over-year in earnings per share in the second quarter alone.
    Breana Noble, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This year's bee has 516 spellers, roughly a fourfold increase over Natarajan's first bee.
    Ben Nuckols, Fox News, 29 May 2018
  • One study of 2,000 people showed a fourfold increase in heart attack risk in the two hours after eating a big meal.
    Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
  • This represents more than a fourfold increase in production speed compared to the previous stage.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The stock, which entered the public markets in April 2019, has increased more than fourfold this year.
    Nico Grant, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The national outdoor gear store REI said cycling equipment sales are up fourfold over last year.
    Max Lockie, Quartz, 2 July 2020
  • In tests, a Violet robot has been able to get the job done in 15 minutes, a fourfold increase in turnaround time.
    Corinne Purtill, Time, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Orders have surged more than fourfold, and customers now have to wait until March for delivery, compared with as little as four weeks a year ago.
    Josefine Fokuhl, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The team found there has been a fourfold increase in releases of nitrous oxide from global rivers and streams since 1900.
    Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Lewes Beach reported a fourfold increase in stings compared to 2024.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The reasons to recognize the sovereignty of the Republic of China are fourfold.
    WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020

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