How to Use multipronged in a Sentence

multipronged

adjective
  • So the Tigers went to a multipronged approach to putting the ball in the net.
    — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The approach has to be multipronged, and mainly focus on how there just isn’t enough space in the world.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The guests at the swanky dinner party that forms the premise of this brilliant and multipronged work can’t leave the premises.
    — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Gradually, the roots form a thick, multipronged trunk, which smothers the host.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The result of this slow-moving, multipronged crisis is a closing window to solve it.
    — Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Garcia said the city is taking a multipronged approach to dealing with this issue.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2021
  • There must be a multipronged approach to all new development.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
  • But instead of growing straight up, its trunk forks four times, creating a massive, multipronged crown.
    — Theodore R. Johnson, Washington Post, 17 June 2026
  • Many a studio has tried to mimic its multipronged approach to franchise moviemaking.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Filed last month, the lawsuit, one of the first to arise from the Time’s Up fund, is part of a multipronged approach.
    — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • Again, these products won't address the cause of the problem, but a multipronged approach probably isn't a bad idea.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Teams, or at least the good ones, started to pick up the pace, implementing a more freewheeling style with a multipronged offense.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Helgren said, adding that the county deployed a multipronged approach to reach residents.
    — Joaquin Palomino, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Both men agreed that there must be a multipronged approach to deal with the opioid addiction epidemic sweeping the nation.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 20 June 2017
  • Over the past year, Washington has made a multipronged push to keep Huawei off American soil.
    — Stu Woo, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018
  • The investigation is the latest step in a multipronged crackdown on the Kremlin’s most ardent foe and his team.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The decreases in West Virginia can be attributed to the multipronged approach adopted in the state.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
  • The need for a multipronged approach to treat the virus has come into focus as potential safety issues emerge in late-stage trials of some promising vaccines and treatments.
    — Naomi Kresge, Bloomberg.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • In recent weeks, Ukraine has augmented its campaign with a more multipronged effort to hamper Russian oil exports.
    — Tatiana Mitrova, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2025
  • More broadly, researchers have called for a multipronged approach to dealing with CSAM that’s shared online.
    — WIRED, 24 Oct. 2023
  • While there's no simple fix to streamline the multipronged act of cooking, Brown emphasizes acknowledging the work and the mental load that comes with every meal.
    — Casey Barber, CNN, 4 May 2022
  • And this is only one facet of a multipronged approach that seeks to reduce the exploding populations of gray squirrels and give the reds a chance of clawing back some of their native habitat.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2022
  • For much of the past five months, Russia’s strategy was to conduct multipronged attacks to deplete and exhaust Ukrainian forces along the frontline.
    — Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2024
  • These are some of the first glimpses to emerge from southern Lebanon, a week after Israel began its ground invasion there as part of its multipronged fight against Hezbollah.
    — Lauren Leatherby, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Summer is finally here, meaning natural curls are making their seasonal comeback, and with them the return of multipronged, post-shower hair care regimens to lock the shape and manage the frizz.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
  • Experience managing a team of journalists or a complicated multipronged reporting project.
    — Talia Buford, ProPublica, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Instead, Lee turns it into a multipronged metaphor that communicates the difficulty of resisting repression, as well as Shinhye’s personal struggle to see her ideas, desires, and self clearly.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Colorado’s landfills release millions of metric tons of greenhouse gases each year, and the state wants to reduce those emissions as part of its multipronged approach to eliminate 90% of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
    — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 7 Dec. 2025
  • The government also implemented a multipronged approach to cracking down on extremism – using municipal governments and organizations to conduct community outreach and drive down local support of terrorist groups.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
  • And earlier this year, the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced a multipronged effort involving the executive, legislative and judiciary powers to combat femicide.
    — Eléonore Hughes, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'multipronged.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: