How to Use sevenfold in a Sentence

sevenfold

adjective
  • There has been a sevenfold increase in membership in the past year.
  • The drop might have been bigger but for a sevenfold increase in concessions that landlords offered.
    — Noah Buhayar, Bloomberg.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Videos demonstrate the donning of hijabs and saris, and the making of the Panama hat and the sevenfold necktie.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • That amounts to about a sevenfold increase in the usual rate, director of programs Amy Klinger said.
    — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • In Washington state, those attacks rose almost sevenfold last year to 20, the data shows.
    — Paige Cornwell, The Seattle Times, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Merced saw almost a sevenfold increase in late-arriving mail ballots in the November election compared with the year before.
    — Vanessa Martínez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The company’s annual revenue now exceeds $35 million and has grown sevenfold in the past year, according to Proner.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • About a fifth of potential passengers in California now end up not finding a ride, a sevenfold increase from previously.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Michigan has experienced a sevenfold increase in cases since late February.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2021
  • In the past two years, job postings show a sevenfold increase in demand for AI fluency—the ability to use and manage AI.
    — Anu Madgavkar, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Shares of the chipmaker are up 10% so far in 2026 and have multiplied by almost sevenfold since the end of 2022.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 24 June 2026
  • Facebook's ascent in elections has been rapid, mirroring its sevenfold increase in value since the company went public in 2012.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Oct. 2017
  • In Georgia, about 60% of outbreaks in the state over the last two months are happening in K-12 schools, a sevenfold increase from July.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Annual profit has nearly quintupled, share value has risen sevenfold, and sales have increased for 16 consecutive quarters.
    — Ellen Byron, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Officials are reporting more than 7,000 new infections each day, a sevenfold increase from late February.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The number of large enterprise customers, each producing more than $100,000 in annual revenue, has jumped nearly sevenfold in just a year.
    — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The gas’s potential to clean up hard-to-decarbonize sectors like steel and long-haul transport underpins expectations of a sevenfold increase in the global market by 2050.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The city of Vancouver has filed a lawsuit to block the pipeline, arguing that the accompanying sevenfold increase in traffic by oil tankers poses a serious threat to aquatic life and water safety.
    — Ben Adler, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Even more dramatic increases in homicide rates occurred in Jamaica and the Republic of Ireland after their gun bans, with sixfold or sevenfold increases.
    — John R. Lott Jr., National Review, 8 Oct. 2017
  • The second version of the MTIA claims a sevenfold sparse compute performance boost over the MTIA v1.
    — Olivia Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Following approval, the 10 drugs together brought in $67 billion, the researchers also concluded — a more than sevenfold return on investment.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2017
  • By comparison, the same analysis gave California a sevenfold impact and Florida a fourfold impact.
    — Steven Lerner, Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Apple Music, which sponsors the halftime show each year, also noted that streams of Bad Bunny’s songs jumped sevenfold immediately following the telecast.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • For China to sustain that pace, new industries would need to expand sevenfold over the next five years to generate the roughly 2 percentage points of annual investment growth required, Rhodium estimated.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Americans’ wealth is the result in part of a soaring stock market (up more than sevenfold from the bottom in 2009) and increasing real estate values (up 125% since 2009).
    — Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Telemedicine visits increased more than sevenfold in the early months of the pandemic, and by 2020 roughly 1 in 5 medical encounters in the United States occurred virtually.
    — Iyesatta Massaquoi Emeli, STAT, 2 June 2026
  • Cybercriminals have been very effective at exploiting this, evidenced by recent spikes in attacks targeting older technologies deployed on home networks and a sevenfold increase in ransomware attacks during the second half of 2020.
    — Fortinet Contributor, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • Morrison has said the India ban was prompted by a sevenfold increase in the percentage of travelers from India testing positive for the coronavirus at a quarantine facility near Darwin, in northern Australia.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
  • According to the information warfare research group OpenMinds, the number of advertisements promoting contract military service that specifically target foreigners has risen more than sevenfold since this summer.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Sealed law enforcement requests to track Americans without a warrant through cellphone location records or Internet activity grew sevenfold in the past three years in the District, new information released by a federal judge in the District shows.
    — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 18 July 2017

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