How to Use quintuple in a Sentence

quintuple

1 of 2 adjective
  • Share prices are quintuple what they were a few days ago.
  • The weapon linked to him was one of six seized at the scene of the quintuple shooting.
    Ramon Antonio Vargas | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • With a time of 2 hours and 19 minutes, Chad earned the record for fastest male marathoner to push a quintuple carriage, according to Guinness World Records.
    Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2022
  • Kane Brown first achieved such a quintuple coronation in 2017.
    Jim Asker, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2019
  • The quintuple shooting marks the latest incident in what has been a violent start to 2022.
    Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The song went quintuple platinum and remained Logic's best performing song on Spotify with more than 1 billion streams.
    Christopher Brito, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Kawaguchi captained North Dakota in his final season, which ended over the weekend in a quintuple-overtime loss to Minnesota-Duluth.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Five minutes after the quintuple shooting involving Smith, a triple shooting occurred a little more than three miles away on Milwaukee's north side.
    Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2020
  • Spooked by rising competition, AmEx is now offering quintuple points on hotel bookings through its travel agency and a new credit for Uber rides.
    Aaron Back, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2017
  • The Chase Freedom earns quintuple points (up to $1,500) on rotating quarterly categories that can include department stores, PayPal, and gas stations.
    New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The death penalty can be illogical: In the six months before Moormann was put to death, Arizona taxpayers paid for his emergency appendectomy and a quintuple bypass.
    Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The Florence Township headquarters of Bettcher Industries, maker of cutting-and-trimming tools, resembled a pristine, quintuple-scale red barn.
    Bob Greene, WSJ, 2 July 2017
  • Capdeville did not mention specific businesses, but some in attendance cited a neighborhood carwash, which sits near the site of both Saturday's and October's quintuple shootings, as a hotspot for criminal activity.
    Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 6 June 2017
  • In 2010, Entertainment Tonight reported Reynolds underwent quintuple bypass surgery.
    Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Share prices are quintuple what they were a few days ago.
  • The weapon linked to him was one of six seized at the scene of the quintuple shooting.
    Ramon Antonio Vargas | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • With a time of 2 hours and 19 minutes, Chad earned the record for fastest male marathoner to push a quintuple carriage, according to Guinness World Records.
    Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2022
  • Kane Brown first achieved such a quintuple coronation in 2017.
    Jim Asker, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2019
  • The quintuple shooting marks the latest incident in what has been a violent start to 2022.
    Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The song went quintuple platinum and remained Logic's best performing song on Spotify with more than 1 billion streams.
    Christopher Brito, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Kawaguchi captained North Dakota in his final season, which ended over the weekend in a quintuple-overtime loss to Minnesota-Duluth.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Five minutes after the quintuple shooting involving Smith, a triple shooting occurred a little more than three miles away on Milwaukee's north side.
    Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2020
  • Spooked by rising competition, AmEx is now offering quintuple points on hotel bookings through its travel agency and a new credit for Uber rides.
    Aaron Back, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2017
  • The Chase Freedom earns quintuple points (up to $1,500) on rotating quarterly categories that can include department stores, PayPal, and gas stations.
    New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The death penalty can be illogical: In the six months before Moormann was put to death, Arizona taxpayers paid for his emergency appendectomy and a quintuple bypass.
    Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The Florence Township headquarters of Bettcher Industries, maker of cutting-and-trimming tools, resembled a pristine, quintuple-scale red barn.
    Bob Greene, WSJ, 2 July 2017
  • Capdeville did not mention specific businesses, but some in attendance cited a neighborhood carwash, which sits near the site of both Saturday's and October's quintuple shootings, as a hotspot for criminal activity.
    Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 6 June 2017
  • In 2010, Entertainment Tonight reported Reynolds underwent quintuple bypass surgery.
    Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
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quintuple

2 of 2 verb
  • The company has quintupled the number of its employees.
  • The town's population has quintupled in the past 50 years.
  • The stock market had quintupled since the bull run’s start in 1921.
    Edward Kosner, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Since Square went public in late 2015, the stock has more than quintupled in price.
    Kurt Wagner, Recode, 10 Oct. 2018
  • By the end of the decade, the Brazilian stock market’s value had quintupled.
    Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
  • Drivers queue for hours for scarce supplies of petrol, the price of which has more than quintupled this year.
    The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Its stock has quintupled since Fir Tree acquired about 5% in a deal to sell the company back some of its debt.
    Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 20 May 2018
  • Brancatelli notes that quintupling the count in mid-April would get the U.S. back to just 40% of the traffic in February.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 May 2020
  • As the caseload has quintupled, much still remains unknown about the illness.
    Lauren Weber, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Demand in Southeast Asia could quintuple over the next decade.
    Jude Clemente, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • In the eighteen years that Yuskavage has been with Zwirner, her prices have quintupled.
    Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Issuance of these bonds more than quintupled in 2018 from the year prior, hitting at least a nine-year high, the MMA data shows.
    Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2019
  • By the end of last year, revenues had quintupled to $23 billion, while profits stood at $1.4 billion.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The market nearly quintupled in value during the Roaring ’20s, and stock prices were famously rich by the end of the decade.
    Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2019
  • That would allow for 1 million homes to receive the service, but SpaceX now wants to quintuple that number.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Over the past three decades, their population has more than quintupled.
    Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • One person wins $555 free play every five minutes, with a chance to quintuple their winnings each hour.
    Nick Sortal, miamiherald, 13 June 2017
  • The number of private chefs, like McNamee, has quintupled.
    Christopher Rugaber, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2019
  • Then, on Monday, August 19, two days after the first spark, the wind changed direction and the fire escaped the narrow canyon, quintupling in size in a single day.
    Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
  • Take Indiana, for example, where the number of farm acres sowed with cover crops more than quintupled in just five years.
    Emily Hopkins, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
  • The number of electric or hybrid vehicles registered in Maryland has doubled in the last two years and quintupled in the last five.
    Victoria Stavish, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The share prices have nearly quintupled on average since the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Doing so could effectively quintuple the number of available shots, since the method uses only a fifth of a full dose.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Kenny Burns is an investor, and the brand will reportedly quintuple its revenue from this same time last year.
    Essence, 22 Dec. 2021
  • That’s part of the reason why this year Tang plans to quintuple spending on promotions and work with phone carriers and makers to pre-install its app.
    Fortune, 5 Mar. 2018
  • But rather than use the fallow months to quintuple their video-game time, teenagers are taking the time to invest in their educational future.
    Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
  • For officials, what matters is that Vanke has nearly quintupled the number of apartments available for rent in the complex.
    The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The share of biscuits and soft drinks in Brazilians’ shopping baskets had tripled and quintupled, respectively, since the first household survey in 1974.
    WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
  • While its share price quintupled from March to October 2020, the stock has since retreated to pre-pandemic levels.
    Time, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Projected costs are more than quintupled so far and at current pace will not likely be completed this century.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023

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