Example Sentences

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Recorded hate crimes in England and Wales have trebled in the past decade, but fallen by 5% in the last year.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2023

Average sales on Belong's Nicosuma e-commerce site have trebled since Apple raised prices in July compared to the average over the previous three months, Inoue said.

From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2022

Prescriptions have trebled over the past decade to almost 3m.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2017

Machines for washing clothes – and dishes – have trebled the workload of domestic servants by transforming their employers’ expectations concerning daily hygiene.

From Scientific American • Oct. 29, 2017

This varies somewhat; possibly during the tenth and eleventh month the gain is lessened, but by the close of the first year the baby should have trebled its birth weight.

From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.