How to Use threefold in a Sentence
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That is a more than threefold increase over just two years ago.
—Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 1 Mar. 2020
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For the Heat, there is a threefold story at play.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
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The keys for Avdalas are threefold.
—Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
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The result has been a surge in traffic and a threefold increase in the stock price.
—Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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The track rules radio after gaining more than threefold week over week.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2026
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For the first three months of the year, revenue for that type of clothing was up nearly threefold over a year ago.
—Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2022
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Some predict a threefold increase in Alzheimer’s cases alone.
—Allan Hugh Cole Jr., Fortune, 16 Jan. 2018
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Broadcom claims a two-to-threefold improvement in pairing time.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2020
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People in fair or poor health were almost threefold more likely to do so than those in excellent or very good health.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 2 June 2023
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That was a threefold increase from a month earlier, the analysis showed.
—Justin Scheck, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
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The benefit of keeping their account as private (or as private as can be) is threefold.
—Erin Hahn, CNN, 5 Feb. 2023
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That head-to-head rivalry between the two giants was the engine of the near-threefold increase.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
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That’s going to change next year, when the price from fields where gas isn’t a byproduct of crude production will increase threefold or more.
—David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2019
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The likelihood to die from the illness is more than threefold compared with those who are younger, Flynn said.
—Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 2 Oct. 2020
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Last week, the lowest quote from a mainstream agency was $182 a day—a threefold increase.
—Anne Kadet, WSJ, 8 June 2021
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The threefold checklist includes examining the scope, fairness and road map of these plans.
—Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2021
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The planning started in 2016 and the challenge was threefold.
—Melissa Yeager, The Arizona Republic, 22 Oct. 2021
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Each level of the tower is an exact threefold covering of the level below it.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2020
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Its shares have risen threefold in the past five years, including a 60% run since January.
—The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
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The reasons the White endorsement went on page one, however, were threefold.
—cleveland, 21 Aug. 2021
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However just because the lightning in the area has increased threefold does not mean that wildfires have increased at this same rate.
—Allison Chinchar and Haley Brink, CNN, 28 Mar. 2021
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Over the summer, the family’s goals for their children, ages 9, 6, and 3, were threefold.
—Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2022
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The death toll marked a threefold jump from the official figure of 99 deaths released Thursday last week.
—Eva Xiao, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2021
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The economic return on investment for those changes would be at least threefold in all the countries reviewed and up to fifty-fold in others.
—Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 28 June 2022
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Since 2002, the average acreage burned by wildfires in these three states has increased nearly threefold.
—Oliver Whang, National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2020
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The exercise bike maker has seen its stock increase more than threefold during the Covid-19 lockdowns.
—Chitra Somayaji, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2020
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Electrolyzer revenue surged threefold year-over-year, hitting $45 million.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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By 2023, the deadliest year for this group, 193 people died from this type of overdose ― a threefold rise.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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An hour and a half from Cincinnati, the small city of Seymour is bracing itself for a threefold increase in population for the eclipse.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
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Candidates needed to meet the threefold test, of ridding the marble of the film, while saving the stone and doing no harm to the monument’s surroundings.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2017
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