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
• Third grade: Kids can often do multiplication and division.
  — Amanda Morin, Parents, 8 July 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: 21 Nov 2024