How to Use eightfold in a Sentence

eightfold

adjective
  • There has been an eightfold increase in membership in the past year.
  • So far this year, the stock has surged in value by more than eightfold.
    — Riley Griffin, Bloomberg.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • In the last 10 years, the price of water there has gone up more than eightfold.
    — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Its assets under management grew more than eightfold in the past decade.
    — Jing Yang, WSJ, 2 June 2021
  • But since the company began working on its vaccine, the shares have soared, leaping by more than eightfold.
    — Robert Langreth, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Since 1972, there has been an eightfold increase in the amount of land burned by summer forest fires.
    — National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Sales of one Dubai startup’s emergency survival kits are up eightfold since the war began.
    — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • This compares to a fourfold reduction for delta and an eightfold reduction for beta.
    — NBC News, 3 Dec. 2021
  • While its stock has fallen in recent months, Tesla shares soared more than eightfold in 2020.
    — Eliot Brown, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Similar strategies at other fast food chains have reportedly increased the amount of cheese on menu items as much as eightfold.
    — Crystal Heath, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Irrigated acres for soybean, mostly used for animals, has jumped eightfold.
    — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The study says the last 30 years shows an eightfold increase in infections with an 18 percent mortality rate.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But Secor’s data showed that sidewinders could increase their metabolism by almost eightfold — a bigger jump than anyone had seen in any species.
    — Daniel Engber, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • That figure represents an eightfold increase since 2019.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Not surprisingly, some online learning platforms have seen an eightfold increase in enrollment.
    — Stefan Lederer, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
  • To understand the impact of the episode-closing cannon attack, a more suitable comparison than the eightfold fence can be found in an earlier scene.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The scene ramified in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, when the city’s Mexican population grew eightfold.
    — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The 4,000 devices per week were an eightfold increase from the company’s output before the pandemic.
    — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The 4,000 devices per week were an eightfold increase from the company's output before the pandemic.
    — Faiz Siddiqui, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The eightfold path is a Buddhist guideline for living ethically and cultivating a world that brings an end to the causes of suffering.
    — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 3 June 2022
  • Over 125 million shares were traded Monday, nearly an eightfold increase from Friday.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 9 June 2021
  • Since 1950, global fossil fuel consumption has grown nearly eightfold, and imports of coal, oil, and gas have risen by 12 times.
    — John Kerry, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Hospitalizations statewide have gone up more than eightfold in two months and nearly tenfold in Los Angeles County.
    — Brian Melley, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Seoul reported an eightfold increase in cases over four days, with 430-plus people in South Korea now infected.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2020
  • The eightfold increase in natural gas prices since the war began presents a historic threat to Europe’s industrial might, living standards, and social peace and cohesion.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Samsung Electronics reported an over eightfold increase in first-quarter operating profits in April, driven by the explosive growth of its chip business.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 13 May 2026
  • In California, hospitalizations have climbed more than eightfold in two months and nearly tenfold in Los Angeles County.
    — NBC News, 1 Jan. 2021
  • And while the turnaround has been staggering, with Q1 2026 operating profit increasing nearly eightfold to a record, the workers received none of the payout.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 17 May 2026
  • LinkedIn’s data shows that AI talent pipelines grew more than eightfold when companies looked inward and prioritized skill building and nurturing over simply focusing on job titles.
    — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Samsung's gains came as the company also forecast an eightfold jump in first-quarter profit on Tuesday, driven by surging AI demand for its high-bandwidth memory chips used in data centers and servers.
    — Dylan Butts, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026

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