quadruple
adjective
fourfold; consisting of four parts.
quadruply
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a word derived from
quadruple.
Example Sentences
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The big lie was my way of being quadruply sure that before I loaded anything I owned onto a U-Haul to flee Brooklyn, I’d really and truly be moving bug free.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019
“The quadruply sad part is that she thinks she made a choice,” Ms. Power, who was visibly upset, told reporters traveling with her.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2016
Note that hip Greek-style yogurt requires about four times as much milk as conventional yogurt, so you’re quadruply screwed if you’ve picked up that habit.
From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2012
Kafka's spirit was as precise as hallucination, but triply or quadruply removed, adrift, isolated: a German-speaking Jew living in Prague in the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, emotionally overpowered by his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whoever had seen her bending to the light of the lamp beneath the quadruply centennial hangings of that ancient room would have admired the sublimity of the picture.
From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
