How to Use multiplication in a Sentence

multiplication

noun

• Students are learning multiplication and division.
• Why not recite the multiplication tables and the parts of speech?
  — Garrison Keillor, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2017
• This multiplication of threats has heightened the sense of alarm.
  — Lawrence M. Krauss, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
• The multiplication of new players like the streaming services has changed the landscape since last year.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 31 Dec. 2021
• Last year, those fees got a lift from both rising stock prices and a multiplication of new futures and other products that proved big hits.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2021
• Meanwhile, Bradshaw taught multiplication and simple arithmetic to the first and third graders in a room that is also the library.
  — Anita Hassan, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2019
• Make this large format by scaling up (some good old-fashioned multiplication), then throw a big ice ring in your favorite bowl and pour the punch over top.
  — Bryan Fountain, Bon Appétit, 27 Sep. 2019
• The writhing and moaning over the multiplication tables?
  — Chase Twichell, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• Mixing does not mean blending, but the creation of new syntheses, and the multiplication of strands of tensions.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2012
• There is a time and place for multiplication drills, Clements said — but combining fun and learning is key to raising good learners.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
• The females begin nesting at age 2 to 3 and live up to 20 years, so the multiplication factor is impressive.
  — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 20 Aug. 2017
• And low range is strictly for slow off-roading or places where torque multiplication would really help you out (like deep sand).
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018
• Something about her memory of the multiplication table, with its fat, devouring zero at the corner, and that chalk taste on the center of the tongue.
  — Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• Cue the era of multiplication-table work sheets and timed math facts, tasks that still make up the bulk of elementary school math homework assignments.
  — Jessica Lahey, chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2018
• The class moved on to more word problems focused on multiplication and division.
  — Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2022
• So his parents pasted multiplication tables everywhere in his house, on the walls, the doors . . .
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• That is, if A promotes the creation of B and B promotes the creation of A, then the two will form a system that organizes surrounding resources to serve its multiplication.
  — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 19 Sep. 2020
• When that enzyme grabs favipiravir instead of a nucleotide, the virus’s multiplication machinery gets gummed up and grinds to a halt.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 8 July 2019
• Yet this turns out to be wasteful; the circuit complexity of multiplication is lower than the grade school method would imply.
  — George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2023
• On Saturday, a mother told a room of 200 strangers that her fifth grader doesn’t know her multiplication tables.
  — Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2019
• The men are merely damsels in distress waiting inside a frozen volcano while their partners have to do long multiplication to rescue them.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2021
• The multiplication of their virtues among their players will go on for generations.
  — Jimmy Wigfield, al, 19 Oct. 2022
• The kids stayed in front of their building, sometimes fighting over a basketball, or quizzing each other on multiplication tables from a swing set inside the iron fence.
  — Peter Nickeas, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• There’s a buzz of fertility, like bees on a hive, linked through cellular multiplication and blood.
  — Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• The battle over math pedagogy is a tale as old as multiplication tables.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Don't forget the handy multiplication tables that can be found within!
  — Fox News, 27 Aug. 2022
• The robot itself was engineered to use a process called work multiplication.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 29 Apr. 2022
• From grade school onward, complex multiplication has been a headache.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2019
• Each skill level builds on the previous one—multiplication and division, for example, build on addition and subtraction—and there are many more levels of explicit skill knowledge in math than in reading.
  — Jaimie Seaton, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2024
• However, science has revealed that cancer is not just one disease, but rather, a group of hundreds of diseases and their subtypes, characterized by the uncontrolled multiplication of abnormal cells.
  — Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024