How to Use quadruple in a Sentence

quadruple

1 of 3 verb
  • The value of the stock has quadrupled in the past year.
  • The company has quadrupled the number of its employees.
  • The town's population has quadrupled in the past 50 years.
  • The stock price has more than quadrupled in the last year.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The stock has still almost quadrupled this year.
    — Jaures Yip, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That means his net worth would have to quadruple to earn the title.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 22 June 2026
  • Last year, that number more than quadrupled.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
  • That is nearly quadruple the height of a standard mega ramp.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Oil prices quadrupled nearly overnight and remained high for over a decade.
    — Jim Krane, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The Rams have now quadrupled down on that investment.
    — Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The median length of these leaves has nearly quadrupled.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The new building will nearly quadruple the size of her existing space.
    — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Leather pouf searches have tripled and searches for wood and marble coasters have quadrupled.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Since then, the chipmaker's revenue has more than tripled and profits have quadrupled.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
  • At faster tempos—when the sonata was played at double and quadruple the original speed—the rats didn’t move much.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Then, oil prices quadrupled, gas lines stretched for miles, and entire industries were shuttered.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Since 2020, its revenue has quadrupled.
    — Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Dec. 2025
  • Some estimates suggest that the budget to run it has quadrupled in recent years.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 20 June 2026
  • Theaters have raced to add showings, with the number nearly quadrupling in the first week.
    — Siyi Zhao, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The number of cases in northern Arizona has quadrupled over the past month.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • That’s up from 500 million in March and quadruple what its usage was just one year ago.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025
  • China has quadrupled its investment in basic research over the last decade.
    — Imran Khalid, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
  • In some areas of the country, wait times for a new fire truck have quadrupled from around one year to 4½ years, the complaint says.
    — Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In the years following the attendance tripled and then quadrupled in numbers.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The stock has quadrupled in 2025, soaring more than 302%.
    — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Investors who bought the stock in late 2020 would have seen their returns almost quadruple.
    — John Choong, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Sands can quadruple anything and everything.
    — Dallas Morning News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Worldwide, searches for grief have quadrupled since 2004.
    — Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
  • Still, since the announcement, stock prices have more than quadrupled, Bloomberg reported.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • That’s nearly quadruple the overall rate of inflation.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025

quadruple

2 of 3 noun
  • His spills came on quadruple axels.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Many people seem to live quadruple lives and not think anything of it.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 24 Jan. 2020
  • It's since gone quadruple platinum in Italy.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Feb. 2026
  • His quadruple loop turned into just a double.
    — The Sports Desk, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026
  • There’s also a quadruple play on taxes.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The quadruple winning side had won six league titles in seven years.
    — SI.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • For at least a decade, the quadruple axel jump was figure skating’s white whale.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The crime rate in our state didn’t quadruple in the last few years, but our jail population did.
    — Van Moody, al, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Adam set five quadruple-XL traps filled with massive amounts of Jif.
    — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • In the past, top athletes were only performing one or two quadruple jumps at best.
    — Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 6 Jan. 2026
  • It was believed to be Dallas’ first quadruple homicide in years.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Track what resonates, quadruple double down on patterns.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • That’s quadruple the offer from June, when the agency first asked the public for help in the case.
    — Elizabeth Earl For Alaska Journal Of Commerce, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Until then, quadruple jumps and triple-triples will continue to define the sport.
    — Robert Samuels, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026
  • More than 20 million people will see their health care costs double or even quadruple.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Order double, triple, or quadruple (yes, four) patties.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025
  • She’s known for being the only woman to land a quadruple-twisting triple backflip in an event.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Fox News notes that online sellers of these stickers have seen demand quadruple in the past month.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Ben Stiller is almost certainly a quadruple threat.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The album earned her a Grammy Award and went quadruple platinum.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
  • Those who were able to take advantage of the market have seen their home values double or even quadruple in the last decade.
    — Amber Randall, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • That meant working with Norman Lear again, which was like a quadruple blessing.
    — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Alongside the cylinder are two fold-out tools, one of which serves quadruple duty as a pry bar, nail puller, saw, and box opener.
    — New Atlas, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Marco Carabott had a heart attack and needed quadruple bypass surgery.
    — David Cox, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
  • White was charged in an April 2021 quadruple shooting that left two people dead.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2022
  • This is why people refer to masking as, like, single and double and triple and quadruple masking.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 May 2020
  • The thigh-high stockings, meanwhile, bore Thom Browne’s quadruple stripe design in black.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • And in this moment, Arteta’s side finds itself in contention to win a quadruple this season.
    — Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Haley was co-counsel in a 2021 quadruple murder case.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Malinin stuck a double loop instead of a quadruple, groupings of four now evading him at every turn.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026

quadruple

3 of 3 adjective
  • She ordered a quadruple espresso.
  • And big butts are one-fourth of the quadruple-threat that makes the perfect snapper.
    — Dallas News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Tolan needed cast members who weren’t just triple threats, but quadruple threats.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Double the volume of my beard oils (or even quadruple), this 4 oz.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 15 May 2022
  • Performers must make landing a quadruple toe loop look like a lark.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Those of us with an eagle eye view of the proceedings saw quadruple coverage.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Auburn’s last road loss in the series was a quadruple-overtime thriller in 2015.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Would Yuzuru Hanyu try to regain his—and maybe land a quadruple axel in the process?
    — Joyce Rubin, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2022
  • That’s a quadruple feat — TDs by an interception, a throw, a run and a catch.
    — Jim Lindgren, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Harrison said there have already been four quadruple shootings so far this year, compared to none at the same time last year.
    — Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
  • No cause was given, though Dawson had had prostate cancer and quadruple heart-bypass surgery over the years.
    — Dave Skretta, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The first quadruple jump of any kind came from a chase; the first triple immediately unleashed a slew of others.
    — Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Friends of Mullins continue to send out calls for help as Mullins learns how to live life as a quadruple amputee.
    — Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The news came after the 15-year-old skater became the first woman to land a quadruple jump at an Olympics.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2022
  • That would be quadruple the usual move, and no one in the futures market was predicting such a hike a day earlier.
    — Time, 13 Sep. 2022
  • That would be quadruple the size of the usual move, and no one in the futures market was predicting such a hike a day earlier.
    — CBS News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Miura, the leader after the short program, fell on his opening quadruple loop, but went on to land three others to stay on the medal stand.
    — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
  • After a drop, Johnson flew the green with a wedge -- forcing him to chip back down the slope before two-putting for his quadruple bogey.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • After rotating only once in his first quadruple jump in his short program at that Olympics, Hanyu was in eighth place.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • The double, triple and quadruple counting has a significant impact on the totals.
    — Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Her success led the police to ask for her help with a cold case involving a quadruple murder in New Hampshire.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Cuadra fled Honduras following the quadruple murder.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Earendel may have been the prominent star in a two-star, or binary, system, or even a triple- or quadruple-star system, Welch said.
    — Marcia Dunn, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The quadruple murder suspect has not yet gone to trial, and a judge entered not guilty pleas on his behalf in May to four murder charges and felony burglary.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Valieva, who was expected to win gold, became the first woman to land a quadruple jump at the winter Olympics during this year's team event.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Angel Strunk is facing the quadruple whammy of being forced to pay her rent this month, come up with a damage deposit and pay a first and last month's rent for a new rental.
    — Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Valieva, the first woman to land a quadruple jump in Olympic history, entered Thursday’s free skate in first place.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Feb. 2022
  • That means that if companies with quadruple digit stock prices were in the Dow, their moves would drastically skew the point value of the index every day.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Year-to-date through July, the number of wildfires the EU was quadruple the 15-year average.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Kitchens had quadruple bypass surgery and a heart valve replacement in Huntsville in September of 2021.
    — Ben Thomas | [email protected], al, 26 Feb. 2023

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