How to Use multiply in a Sentence

multiply

1 of 2 verb

• The teacher taught the children how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
• Complaints about the new procedure soon multiplied.
• The bacteria multiply rapidly in warm, moist conditions.
• Her responsibilities were multiplied by the promotion.
• Her responsibilities multiplied when she was promoted.
• Measure the square feet of the room’s floor and multiply that by 20.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
• Clothes moths swarm your linens and wardrobe and pantry moths multiply in the kitchen.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2023
• During the active phase, the virus multiplies and spreads through the body.
  — Anju Goel, Verywell Health, 25 Mar. 2024
• The number of victims in shootouts seemed to multiply on the back end of telegrams.
  — Wil Haygood, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• Feel free to multiply this recipe to batch this cocktail for a crowd.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 July 2023
• To get a dosage range, multiply your weight by 0.2mg and increase the amount as needed.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
• Not just once, but perhaps 20 times a month — and multiply that by 10 years.
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 23 July 2023
• Find the length and the width, then multiply the numbers together to get the overall square footage.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Oct. 2023
• The deaths multiplied quickly, and the institute was too small to handle the tide of victims.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The brake booster multiplies the force applied by your foot on the brake pedal.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
• The rats are multiplying because our city is addicted to putting trash out in bags on the street.
  — Curbed, 21 Aug. 2023
• Think of Salvador Dali’s melting clock, and multiply the metal on the frame by 100.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2023
• And the more progress society makes in the near term, the sooner the benefits will begin to multiply.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Given the right conditions in a lab, the cells multiplied until there were enough to roll up into the meatball.
  — Mike Corder, oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2023
• Thanks to the Megaplier, her $1 million prize was multiplied to $2 million.
  — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
• The lights of Los Angeles multiplied with each passing year until their glow obscured that of the stars above.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Shutters opened and trestle tables laden with books began to multiply in the streets.
  — Lorna Parkes, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• The effect, though, has been multiplied by how compelling a story the Matildas have become.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• Small adjustments, multiplied over many households, can make a difference in keeping the lights — and the AC — on.
  — Marc Duvoisin, San Antonio Express-News, 5 May 2023
• Pest Inspect Bad bugs love to hitch a ride from the grower and multiply in less than ideal conditions.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
• If slugging is used too often and for too long, pimples can form, germs can multiply, and the skin can even become inflamed.
  — Claudia Herwig, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2023
• In health studies, all of that data is multiplied by hundreds of patients.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 June 2023
• Listeria is a hardy germ that can spread and multiply in the refrigerator and even the freezer, reports the FDA.
  — Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 21 Nov. 2023
• Without guardrails and oversight, its harms are destined to multiply.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
• However, having a good roach killer bait system in place can ensure that the one cockroach doesn’t get to multiply.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023

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multiply

2 of 2 adverb

• The strong, wild birds were then left to go forth and multiply.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2021
• God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and master it.
  — Alexa Tucker, Woman's Day, 1 June 2022
• The scam jobs multiply so fast that few recruits stick to one beyond a few months.
  — Snigdha Poonam, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2021
• Bed bugs multiply at a rapid rate and can hide from many home remedies.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• Tell her it’s morally wrong to not treat the dog as heartworms multiply and grow and put pressure on the dog’s heart and lungs.
  — ExpressNews.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• This water is needed for the algae to move about and multiply.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2020
• To determine the caloric cost per flight, multiply the number of steps times 0.3.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 14 Oct. 2022
• The microbes multiply as the dirt warms, processing nutrients for the trees to use.
  — WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
• As deaths from Covid-19 multiply across the globe, so do numbers of the bewildered bereaved.
  — Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
• If these three numbers multiply to 0, then one of them must be zero.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2021
• Experts have said caseloads could rise above 1,000 before the Olympics and multiply to thousands during the games.
  — Heather Hollingsworth and Maria Cheng, chicagotribune.com, 14 July 2021
• And multiply that by all the people at your company who need to be asking the same questions.
  — Ellevate, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• This means the virus can gain entry more easily and multiply faster.
  — Prafulla Shriyan, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2021
• For example, miR1307 could turn on a gene in the virus that makes the virus multiply faster inside human bodies.
  — Amanda Morris, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2020
• Those three days multiply into weeks, months, then years.
  — Roslyn Talusan, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2021
• The 30-year-old has seen attendance multiply at classes this month.
  — Star Tribune, 19 June 2021
• The backlogs in arms sales are getting worse because the demand is growing as threats around the world multiply, experts said.
  — Ellen Nakashima, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2022
• One guy does a technical thing, another guy improves on it; multiply by decades and the world is changed.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 2 July 2020
• Asian carp have few predators and multiply like crazy, devouring huge amounts of plankton, plants, and snails.
  — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 21 Sep. 2022
• In bubonic plague cases, the bacteria multiply in the lymph node closest to where the bacteria entered the body.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 6 July 2020
• The quakes didn’t occur every day, and most were too small for humans to feel, but month after month the tremors continued to rumble and multiply.
  — Riley D. Champine, National Geographic, 18 June 2020
• That’s when things happen that can seem as small as a paper cut (or insignificant) but over time, those cuts multiply and cause a lot of pain.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• Do not add up your expenses, multiply by six and fixate on that number.
  — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2022
• Dry winters, however, have helped the bugs survive and multiply, according to the Guardian.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 4 July 2021
• So, to determine your total, multiply your square footage by the depth in inches desired, then divide by 324.
  — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 30 Apr. 2020
• But as people get older, those repeats multiply in neurons and other cells, like a record skipping for longer and longer.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 13 Apr. 2021
• The game is an experiment for what happens when focus and energy multiply by the hours and become laced in chaos.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
• Airbnb added new booking restrictions for renters under the age of 25 to prevent house parties as cases multiply across the country.
  — Jessica Flores, USA TODAY, 6 July 2020
• For families with more than one child, the disruptions multiply.
  — Betsy Morris, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2021
• And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024