How to Use quintuple in a Sentence

quintuple

1 of 2 adjective
  • Share prices are quintuple what they were a few days ago.
  • The weapon linked to him was one of six seized at the scene of the quintuple shooting.
    Ramon Antonio Vargas | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Three other men were injured in the drive-by quintuple shooting.
    Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • The greatest gainer of that bunch is one that jumps from half a million units to five million, or quintuple platinum.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • Mavrookas said the company is on pace to quintuple production there over the next 12 months.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Kane Brown first achieved such a quintuple coronation in 2017.
    Jim Asker, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2019
  • Case study data also showed plans to more than quintuple investments in new construction projects during the next one-to-two years.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Under a plea deal, Bui faces up to 60 years in prison when he is sentenced this summer for his role in the quintuple homicide.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
  • For about half of these goods, US production capacity would need to quintuple or more.
    Eric Kutcher, Fortune, 2 July 2026
  • Taylor Swift talked about caring for her father after his quintuple bypass surgery last summer.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Malinin is expected to go for a seven-quad program this season and has teased trying a quintuple jump in the future.
    Nick Zaccardi, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Her dad is doing better post-quintuple bypass surgery, and her mom is recovering from knee replacement surgery.
    Bryan West, The Tennessean, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The quintuple shooting marks the latest incident in what has been a violent start to 2022.
    Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2022
  • This was nothing like Ernie Els six-putting on the first hole of the 2016 Masters — a quintuple bogey.
    Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Mike Sardina cause of death Mike had coronary issues, and even underwent a quintuple bypass.
    Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Instead, a routine mammogram led to Preston having quintuple bypass surgery last summer.
    Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 3 Jan. 2026
  • The song went quintuple platinum and remained Logic's best performing song on Spotify with more than 1 billion streams.
    Christopher Brito, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • King himself was plagued with health issues in his later years that included several heart attacks, and a quintuple bypass surgery in 1987.
    Kim Lyons, The Verge, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Taylor Swift's dad, Scott Swift, had quintuple bypass surgery last month, the pop singer's representative confirmed.
    Elizabeth Maline, NBC news, 16 July 2025
  • Taylor Swift gave an update on her dad Scott Swift's health on Monday following his quintuple bypass surgery over the summer.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Taylor Swift’s dad is recovering after undergoing a recent quintuple bypass, for which the pop superstar has been by his side.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 16 July 2025
  • Five minutes after the quintuple shooting involving Smith, a triple shooting occurred a little more than three miles away on Milwaukee's north side.
    Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2020
  • The 73-year-old had quintuple bypass surgery just over a month ago and is recovering well, Fox News Digital has confirmed.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 16 July 2025
  • The quintuple-feature starred a towering thunderhead, a menacing shelf cloud, a vibrant rainbow, a glorious sunset and concluded with a fireball that shot across the night sky.
    Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
  • According to reports that emerged earlier Wednesday morning, Scott, who is 73, received quintuple bypass surgery more than a month ago.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 16 July 2025
  • Scott Swift, 73, underwent quintuple bypass surgery, which his doctor ordered after noticing something during a recent check-up.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2025
  • And both Kelce brothers showed their support after Swift's dad, Scott Swift, underwent quintuple bypass surgery earlier this year.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Spooked by rising competition, AmEx is now offering quintuple points on hotel bookings through its travel agency and a new credit for Uber rides.
    Aaron Back, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2017
  • Business has boomed since, helping Huawei more than quintuple profit during the March quarter and take market share from Apple and Chinese rivals.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune Asia, 21 June 2024
  • With a time of 2 hours and 19 minutes, Chad earned the record for fastest male marathoner to push a quintuple carriage, according to Guinness World Records.
    Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2022

quintuple

2 of 2 verb
  • The company has quintupled the number of its employees.
  • The town's population has quintupled in the past 50 years.
  • Drivers queue for hours for scarce supplies of petrol, the price of which has more than quintupled this year.
    The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
  • As the caseload has quintupled, much still remains unknown about the illness.
    Lauren Weber, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The stock market had quintupled since the bull run’s start in 1921.
    Edward Kosner, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Over the past three decades, their population has more than quintupled.
    Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • By the end of the decade, the Brazilian stock market’s value had quintupled.
    Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
  • Demand in Southeast Asia could quintuple over the next decade.
    Jude Clemente, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • Since Square went public in late 2015, the stock has more than quintupled in price.
    Kurt Wagner, Recode, 10 Oct. 2018
  • In the eighteen years that Yuskavage has been with Zwirner, her prices have quintupled.
    Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • McRae quintupled her earnings compared to her previous tour, which took place just a year prior.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2025
  • One person wins $555 free play every five minutes, with a chance to quintuple their winnings each hour.
    Nick Sortal, miamiherald, 13 June 2017
  • Its stock has quintupled since Fir Tree acquired about 5% in a deal to sell the company back some of its debt.
    Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 20 May 2018
  • Kenny Burns is an investor, and the brand will reportedly quintuple its revenue from this same time last year.
    Essence, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Take Indiana, for example, where the number of farm acres sowed with cover crops more than quintupled in just five years.
    Emily Hopkins, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
  • Doing so could effectively quintuple the number of available shots, since the method uses only a fifth of a full dose.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Revenue has more than quintupled over three years, up from about $145 million in 2020.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
  • But rather than use the fallow months to quintuple their video-game time, teenagers are taking the time to invest in their educational future.
    Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
  • But the number of seniors that its social adult daycares billed for nearly quintupled — up 390%.
    Laura Geller, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • That would allow for 1 million homes to receive the service, but SpaceX now wants to quintuple that number.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The number of people injured in chases quintupled, with about one in five chases resulting in injury after the change this year.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
  • For officials, what matters is that Vanke has nearly quintupled the number of apartments available for rent in the complex.
    The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • That's the difference between doubling your investment and quintupling it.
    Steven Wolfe Pereira, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That’s part of the reason why this year Tang plans to quintuple spending on promotions and work with phone carriers and makers to pre-install its app.
    Fortune, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The number of electric or hybrid vehicles registered in Maryland has doubled in the last two years and quintupled in the last five.
    Victoria Stavish, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The market nearly quintupled in value during the Roaring ’20s, and stock prices were famously rich by the end of the decade.
    Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2019
  • Colorado’s payments to providers quintupled in six years, reaching $287 million in the fiscal year that ended in June.
    Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The number of people injured in pursuits more than quintupled, with about one in five chases resulting in injury after the policy change, the data shows.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Every donation will be quintupled up to $100,000.
    Alys Martinez, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Issuance of these bonds more than quintupled in 2018 from the year prior, hitting at least a nine-year high, the MMA data shows.
    Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2019

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