How to Use multiplication in a Sentence

multiplication

noun

• Students are learning multiplication and division.
• This multiplication of threats has heightened the sense of alarm.
  — Lawrence M. Krauss, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
• Why not recite the multiplication tables and the parts of speech?
  — Garrison Keillor, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2017
• From grade school onward, complex multiplication has been a headache.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2019
• The multiplication of new players like the streaming services has changed the landscape since last year.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 31 Dec. 2021
• The signal, in this case the sum of all those multiplications, tends to be overwhelmed by the many possible sources of noise.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
• Last year, those fees got a lift from both rising stock prices and a multiplication of new futures and other products that proved big hits.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2021
• And low range is strictly for slow off-roading or places where torque multiplication would really help you out (like deep sand).
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018
• The battle over math pedagogy is a tale as old as multiplication tables.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Don't forget the handy multiplication tables that can be found within!
  — Fox News, 27 Aug. 2022
• The class moved on to more word problems focused on multiplication and division.
  — Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2022
• The multiplication of their virtues among their players will go on for generations.
  — Jimmy Wigfield, al, 19 Oct. 2022
• Make this large format by scaling up (some good old-fashioned multiplication), then throw a big ice ring in your favorite bowl and pour the punch over top.
  — Bryan Fountain, Bon Appétit, 27 Sep. 2019
• The robot itself was engineered to use a process called work multiplication.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 29 Apr. 2022
• There’s a buzz of fertility, like bees on a hive, linked through cellular multiplication and blood.
  — Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• Could Dorough write songs that might help children learn their multiplication tables?
  — James Reed, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Politics, when it’s done right, is about multiplication.
  — Marie Alvarado Gil, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
• Mixing does not mean blending, but the creation of new syntheses, and the multiplication of strands of tensions.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2012
• Here, the whole computation is accomplished in three lookup steps and two multiplication steps.
  — Olivia Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2026
• The men are merely damsels in distress waiting inside a frozen volcano while their partners have to do long multiplication to rescue them.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2021
• There is a time and place for multiplication drills, Clements said — but combining fun and learning is key to raising good learners.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
• Yet this turns out to be wasteful; the circuit complexity of multiplication is lower than the grade school method would imply.
  — George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2023
• And this multiplication of snakes is still ongoing, says Rabosky.
  — Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
• The Gospel’s account of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes offers a better model.
  — Mark Miller, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
• Cue the era of multiplication-table work sheets and timed math facts, tasks that still make up the bulk of elementary school math homework assignments.
  — Jessica Lahey, chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2018
• When that enzyme grabs favipiravir instead of a nucleotide, the virus’s multiplication machinery gets gummed up and grinds to a halt.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 8 July 2019
• They are also supposed to learn multiplication and division and how to compare fractions.
  — New York Times, 20 June 2021
• An array, which flummoxed Hawkins, is a model that students can use to master multiplication.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
• Meanwhile, Bradshaw taught multiplication and simple arithmetic to the first and third graders in a room that is also the library.
  — Anita Hassan, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2019
• The vocabulary words or multiplication problems a student may encounter on a test are posted in the hallways.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2022