How to Use tenfold in a Sentence

tenfold

adjective
  • That is more than a tenfold increase.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That marked a near tenfold increase in such transfers over the past three years.
    — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The summoning of evil is tenfold here.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Two hundred nineteen years later, the new world is tenfold as fraught as the old.
    — Jack King, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The result was a tenfold increase in rates in the past 30 years.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026
  • For every sleepless night, there will be tenfold snuggles and love.
    — Anna Moeslein, Parents, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Across the country, forest fires have increased by almost tenfold over the past two decades.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • Thanks to a tenfold increase in its stock price, the company has regained ground on its two larger rivals.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • And when our eyes focus on a human face on screen, our eye+brain power is tenfold, because we are trained to read for emotion.
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The tenfold increase is in comparison to what the clinics were seeing a this time last year, a spokeswoman said.
    — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2022
  • The report shows that requests have spiked dramatically in the last three years, rising as much as tenfold in some states.
    — Sidney Fussell, Wired, 27 Aug. 2021
  • But if there are challenges to cooking for small groups — the difficulties of opening a restaurant are tenfold.
    — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • Health workers have been struggling for more than year to contain a scabies outbreak and manage a tenfold increase in dengue fever.
    — Mohammad Faruque, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But that is a tiny increase in comparison with the tenfold spike in the areas around the five sites shown to Amazon.
    — Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Out of the box, the Arista solution provides a tenfold improvement.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Each level marks roughly a tenfold jump in energy output, placing X-class flares at the top of the scale.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Once the park service opened the doors to the public, there was an immediate tenfold increase in visitors.
    — Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
  • That's up from $1 billion in December, which was about a tenfold increase from a year earlier.
    — Hayden Field, CNBC, 1 May 2025
  • Each whole number increase — from, say, 3 to 4, or 6 to 7 — is a tenfold increase in amplitude.
    — Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
  • Each step represents a tenfold increase in energy output.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 11 May 2026
  • That's a tenfold increase from November, when MedStar was handling around two flu calls per day.
    — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 16 Jan. 2018
  • That’s a more than tenfold jump from the number of residents who called Meridian home in 1990.
    — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 17 Apr. 2018
  • There’s a lot more talk about ESG investing in the media these days, a tenfold increase in the past few months, by our measure.
    — Emily Chasan, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • According to Moody’s, in the last three decades, the value of Mexican exports has increased by more than tenfold.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Now, as discussions around the success of the treatment have grown on social media, there has been nearly a tenfold increase in prescriptions.
    — Ian Thomas, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That has been accompanied by a nearly tenfold increase in fraudsters using AI.
    — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Stocks that temporarily reached the tenfold level but later dropped below were excluded from the analysis.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • The state has received reports of 969 dry household wells in California this year, a tenfold increase from last year.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Each letter represents a tenfold increase in energy output, and there is a scale of 1 to 9 in each class, except for X-class.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The fatalities happened amid a tenfold increase in Aurora police chases this year.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025

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