How to Use multiply in a Sentence

multiply

1 of 2 verb
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  • The teacher taught the children how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
  • Complaints about the new procedure soon multiplied.
  • The bacteria multiply rapidly in warm, moist conditions.
  • Her responsibilities were multiplied by the promotion.
  • Her responsibilities multiplied when she was promoted.
  • Measure the square feet of the room’s floor and multiply that by 20.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Clothes moths swarm your linens and wardrobe and pantry moths multiply in the kitchen.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2023
  • During the active phase, the virus multiplies and spreads through the body.
    — Anju Goel, Verywell Health, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The number of victims in shootouts seemed to multiply on the back end of telegrams.
    — Wil Haygood, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Feel free to multiply this recipe to batch this cocktail for a crowd.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 July 2023
  • To get a dosage range, multiply your weight by 0.2mg and increase the amount as needed.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Not just once, but perhaps 20 times a month — and multiply that by 10 years.
    — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 23 July 2023
  • Find the length and the width, then multiply the numbers together to get the overall square footage.
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The deaths multiplied quickly, and the institute was too small to handle the tide of victims.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The brake booster multiplies the force applied by your foot on the brake pedal.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The rats are multiplying because our city is addicted to putting trash out in bags on the street.
    — Curbed, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Think of Salvador Dali’s melting clock, and multiply the metal on the frame by 100.
    — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2023
  • And the more progress society makes in the near term, the sooner the benefits will begin to multiply.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Given the right conditions in a lab, the cells multiplied until there were enough to roll up into the meatball.
    — Mike Corder, oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Thanks to the Megaplier, her $1 million prize was multiplied to $2 million.
    — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The lights of Los Angeles multiplied with each passing year until their glow obscured that of the stars above.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Shutters opened and trestle tables laden with books began to multiply in the streets.
    — Lorna Parkes, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The effect, though, has been multiplied by how compelling a story the Matildas have become.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Small adjustments, multiplied over many households, can make a difference in keeping the lights — and the AC — on.
    — Marc Duvoisin, San Antonio Express-News, 5 May 2023
  • Pest Inspect Bad bugs love to hitch a ride from the grower and multiply in less than ideal conditions.
    — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
  • If slugging is used too often and for too long, pimples can form, germs can multiply, and the skin can even become inflamed.
    — Claudia Herwig, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In health studies, all of that data is multiplied by hundreds of patients.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 June 2023
  • Listeria is a hardy germ that can spread and multiply in the refrigerator and even the freezer, reports the FDA.
    — Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Without guardrails and oversight, its harms are destined to multiply.
    — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
  • However, having a good roach killer bait system in place can ensure that the one cockroach doesn’t get to multiply.
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
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multiply

2 of 2 adverb
  • The strong, wild birds were then left to go forth and multiply.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2021
  • God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and master it.
    — Alexa Tucker, Woman's Day, 1 June 2022
  • The scam jobs multiply so fast that few recruits stick to one beyond a few months.
    — Snigdha Poonam, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Bed bugs multiply at a rapid rate and can hide from many home remedies.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Tell her it’s morally wrong to not treat the dog as heartworms multiply and grow and put pressure on the dog’s heart and lungs.
    — ExpressNews.com, 5 Nov. 2020
  • This water is needed for the algae to move about and multiply.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • To determine the caloric cost per flight, multiply the number of steps times 0.3.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The microbes multiply as the dirt warms, processing nutrients for the trees to use.
    — WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
  • As deaths from Covid-19 multiply across the globe, so do numbers of the bewildered bereaved.
    — Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
  • If these three numbers multiply to 0, then one of them must be zero.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Experts have said caseloads could rise above 1,000 before the Olympics and multiply to thousands during the games.
    — Heather Hollingsworth and Maria Cheng, chicagotribune.com, 14 July 2021
  • And multiply that by all the people at your company who need to be asking the same questions.
    — Ellevate, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • This means the virus can gain entry more easily and multiply faster.
    — Prafulla Shriyan, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2021
  • For example, miR1307 could turn on a gene in the virus that makes the virus multiply faster inside human bodies.
    — Amanda Morris, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Those three days multiply into weeks, months, then years.
    — Roslyn Talusan, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The 30-year-old has seen attendance multiply at classes this month.
    — Star Tribune, 19 June 2021
  • The backlogs in arms sales are getting worse because the demand is growing as threats around the world multiply, experts said.
    — Ellen Nakashima, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • One guy does a technical thing, another guy improves on it; multiply by decades and the world is changed.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 2 July 2020
  • Asian carp have few predators and multiply like crazy, devouring huge amounts of plankton, plants, and snails.
    — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 21 Sep. 2022
  • In bubonic plague cases, the bacteria multiply in the lymph node closest to where the bacteria entered the body.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 6 July 2020
  • The quakes didn’t occur every day, and most were too small for humans to feel, but month after month the tremors continued to rumble and multiply.
    — Riley D. Champine, National Geographic, 18 June 2020
  • That’s when things happen that can seem as small as a paper cut (or insignificant) but over time, those cuts multiply and cause a lot of pain.
    — Womensmedia, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Do not add up your expenses, multiply by six and fixate on that number.
    — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Dry winters, however, have helped the bugs survive and multiply, according to the Guardian.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 4 July 2021
  • So, to determine your total, multiply your square footage by the depth in inches desired, then divide by 324.
    — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 30 Apr. 2020
  • But as people get older, those repeats multiply in neurons and other cells, like a record skipping for longer and longer.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The game is an experiment for what happens when focus and energy multiply by the hours and become laced in chaos.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Airbnb added new booking restrictions for renters under the age of 25 to prevent house parties as cases multiply across the country.
    — Jessica Flores, USA TODAY, 6 July 2020
  • For families with more than one child, the disruptions multiply.
    — Betsy Morris, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2021
  • But history also drops strong hints that today's darling might not be beloved by the end of a multiply-extended contract.
    — Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2023

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