How to Use sixfold in a Sentence

sixfold

adjective
  • Investors bought in, driving the shares up more than sixfold.
    — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The city recorded a sixfold increase in patients in a matter of weeks.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The price of bitcoin, the cryptocurrency, has risen more than sixfold in the past year.
    — Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 7 May 2021
  • That implies a sixfold increase in real value over the decade.
    — Robert J. Shiller, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • That figure represents a more than sixfold increase compared to the first half of last year.
    — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Over the last five years,the country increased the number of smart city projects sixfold to over 400.
    — Marina Lopes, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The camps lead to a sixfold increase in rates of depression and eight times the rate of suicide in the people who go through them.
    — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Plus, new daily infections have plateaued over the last two weeks, and are still up more than sixfold from the pre-delta summertime low.
    — Joe Walsh, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Their data shows battery costs falling more than sixfold since 2010.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2020
  • That’s a nearly sixfold increase from two months ago, when there were 2,226 patients.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Meanwhile, the percentage of Afghan girls who attend secondary school has grown more than sixfold.
    — Richard Galant, CNN, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Peloton shares, which grew roughly sixfold amid the pandemic, fell by more than 7% on Monday.
    — Sharon Terlep, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
  • In the control group, just 3% donated – a sixfold difference.
    — Sean Richey, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Hospital staff expect a sixfold increase in patients in the Madras ER around the eclipse.
    — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Since the start of the outbreak, WHO said prices have surged, with surgical masks seeing a sixfold increase.
    — NBC News, 4 Mar. 2020
  • That would be a roughly sixfold increase over 2015, the year before the fentanyl crisis began.
    — Maurice Tamman, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Revenue, which Rec Room earns when users make in-game purchases, grew more than sixfold year-over-year in 2020.
    — Matt Grossman, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Disney shareholders, in the meantime, have seen a sixfold increase in their stock’s value since 2005.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Interest rates were closer to zero for nine out of the last 13 years, during which time wind and solar generation increased more than sixfold.
    — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 21 June 2022
  • The Pentagon also announced a sixfold increase in production of heavy artillery shells to meet the demand in Ukraine.
    — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The drop occurred despite a sixfold increase in testing at public health labs, most of which checked for influenza A and B along with the coronavirus.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2021
  • On average, France has recorded one fatal shooting every two and a half months since the law passed, compared with one every 16 months before the law — a sixfold increase.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 30 June 2023
  • Our team and others have shown that the sixfold increase in CO2 during the end-Permian collapse happened over the course of perhaps tens of thousands of years.
    — Chris Mays, Scientific American, 23 June 2022
  • NextEra is projecting a sixfold increase in power demand over the next 20 years compared with the previous 20 years, Ketchum said.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025
  • This represents a sixfold increase when compared with the last 16 months of the Biden administration, according to the analysis.
    — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Girls wrestling, while not yet recognized as its own IHSA sport, saw more than 670 participants, a sixfold increase in just three years.
    — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Since October 1, the FAA has recorded 607 staffing issues, a sixfold increase over the same period last year.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The sixfold increase took place in the first four months of the Iranian year (from March 21 to July 22), reported Tasnim agency.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 27 July 2022
  • Dhillon didn’t disclose the valuation, but the 35-person company said that annual recurring revenue has increased about sixfold year over year, and that its systems scanned 20 million potential cyberattacks last year.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Natural disasters in the United States are costing $130 billion per year, a sixfold increase since the 1980s, and killing Americans at roughly twice the historic rate.
    — Michael Chertoff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2026

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