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

The amendment is lost; and trebly and quadruply lost is the listener.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard