How to Use multiple in a Sentence
- She made multiple copies of the report.
- He suffered multiple injuries in the accident.
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But he’s gone through the league multiple times.
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
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He was booked on multiple felony firearm charges, deputies said.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
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The man was shot multiple times.
—Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
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He had been shot multiple times.
—Todd Feurer, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
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These multiple seedlings must be thinned.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
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And there are multiple places to buy it from online right now.
—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
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Though shot multiple times, the victim was able to flee the scene.
—Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 17 June 2023
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There are multiple ways to clean your oven, and steam cleaning is one of them.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
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She’d been stabbed multiple times.
—Tony Marrero, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026
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Parker wants to be multiple in his scheme.
—Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 9 Mar. 2026
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Each victim was hit multiple times, cops said.
—Theodore Parisienne, New York Daily News, 19 June 2026
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Rayner said your best bet is to look in a field with multiple boxes.
—Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2024
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So if Worthy is out multiple weeks, who steps up now?
—Jesse Newell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
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Police say the victim was hit in the head with a log multiple times.
—Wcco Staff, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
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Some teams have multiple tight ends who are capable in both the run and pass game.
—Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
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Seven teams made multiple first-round picks.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2026
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Quinn was shot multiple times with a revolver in the head and torso.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
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Canada had multiple close chances but could not convert close to goal.
—Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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This requires players to take on multiple roles on the pitch.
—Eric Zillmer, Scientific American, 26 June 2026
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The woman was struck in the body multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene.
—Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 12 June 2026
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Nine Star Wars films have now been made along with multiple spin-offs.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
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Torres tried to call him, but his phone went straight to voicemail multiple times.
—Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
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But many here have fled airstrikes multiple times and say that going back is a death sentence.
—Yan Naing, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
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Video from the scene showed multiple bullet holes in a car windshield.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
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Frank was also found bound in the basement, stabbed multiple times in the neck and chest.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
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Many were killed by multiple bullets.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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And at $26, why not stock up in multiple colors?
—Isis Briones, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
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At one point, traffic was stopped after a banyan tree branch fell on top of multiple cars and blocked the road.
—Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
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That is where value starts to show up in the multiple.
—Louis Mosca, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
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Balls, racquets, and bats can be hard to store and come in multiples.
—Kaylei Fear, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Feb. 2026
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That does not mean low multiples are useless.
—Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
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But the multiple alone tells you very little.
—Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
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This is where the multiple for that business starts to get pushed up by brokers.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
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Mature stocks trade at a small fraction of the multiple that growth stocks do.
—ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026
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Costco’s multiple coming down would be fine if the stock weren’t near its lows.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Dec. 2025
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This is the revenge of the price-to-earnings multiple again.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
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What multiple will the market pay?
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
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Not the multiples, not the exits.
—Shimite Obialo, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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This chic dress comes in four colors, so be warned that you’ll be tempted to pick up multiple.
—Dena Ogden, Southern Living, 22 June 2026
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Now that’s something to write home about (and purchase in multiples).
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
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Don't worry about the multiple, though.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 18 May 2026
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Those numbers are startling, but so is that multiple.
—Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
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So, this process in sum is acting as a restraint on the index multiple.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 14 July 2026
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Not rapid enough to impact the sales of the company, just the multiple of the stock.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026
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Nassar was stabbed in the back and neck multiple times, according to a source.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 10 July 2023
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In many areas a high-end home can rise many multiples above the area's typical home price.
—Maddie McGay, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
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And at the end of the day, a company is worth a multiple of its net earnings or net free cash flow.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 27 Jan. 2026
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The suspect then produced a large knife and stabbed the victim multiple times.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2023
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That means that at exit those brands are likely to command stronger multiples.
—Gary Occhiogrosso, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Police said the gunman walked up and shot the victim multiple times.
—David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2023
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Exit multiples are rising for those that check all the boxes.
—Gary Occhiogrosso, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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That's cheap for a stock with an average five-year multiple of more than 70 times.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2025
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The beauty of a witchy romcom really is that so many of them come in multiples.
—Audrey Goldberg Ruoff, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
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Go ahead, buy multiples of these crowd-pleasers and cross off besties, sisters, and coworkers all at once.
—Shanna Shipin, Allure, 16 Nov. 2023
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Over the same time frame, strategic deal multiples fell 12%, Bain said.
—Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
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One surfer is shown flipping in the air multiple times after being thrown from a surfboard.
—USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
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Overnight, the 15% jump in its share price raised Nvidia’s multiple to 64.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
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Pair two as a gift for you and your partner or grab multiple for a Galentine’s party.
—Jessica Comstock, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2024
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