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How to use multiple in a sentence

40 example sentences · determiner, adjective, noun

Multiple means more than one (followed by plural). Example: “My Swiss Army knife has multiple blades.”

Examples of multiple by meaning

determinerMore than one (followed by plural).

  • My Swiss Army knife has multiple blades.
  • Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2015
  • A study Kennedy discussed on multiple podcast episodes exposed male African clawed frogs to atrazine in a lab, castrating 75% of the male frogs and turning one in 10 males into females.2023 July 13, Abby Turner and Andrew Kaczynski, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly suggested that chemicals in water are impacting sexuality...

adjectiveHaving more than one element, part, component, or function, having more than one instance, occurring more than once...

  • Some states do explicitly prohibit multiple citizenship.
  • It was a multiple pregnancy: the woman had triplets.
  • Multiple registrations are an increasing problem for many social networking sites.

adjectiveOf a person: displaying or experiencing two or more distinct personalities or selves in one body.

  • While being multiple can cause complexity to people’s lives, as will be highlighted below, all respondents noted that they would not want to change their experiences of being multiple.2024, Zarah Eve, “Expert-by-experience intrapersonal findings” (chapter 6), in Exploring emerging multiplicity and psychosocial...

nounA whole number that is obtained by multiplying a specific whole number by another whole number.

  • 14, 21 and 70 are multiples of 7

nounOne of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.

  • One might view this attempt to ensure the scarcity of a multiple as both a marketing ploy and form of elitism.1996, Southeastern College Art Conference Review

nounA single individual who displays or experiences multiple personalities or selves.

  • I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!2010, Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar
  • Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.2000, Henk Driessen, Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification, page 115

nounA chain store.

  • The big advantage such multiples can offer over a purely catalogue operation is that winners can be given shopping vouchers enabling them to choose from goods on display in the multiples' many outlets (Woolworths, for example, has 1,000).1979, Management Today, page 96

nounMore than one piercing in a single ear.

  • The older woman sees her daughter wearing multiples.1976, Jewelers' Circular/Keystone, volume 147, numbers 1-6, page 40

More sentences with multiple

  • An array of bytes uses its index as the offset, of words a multiple thereof.From the entry offset
  • The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit.From the entry car
  • The pilots entertained the spectators at the airshow by doing multiple rolls.From the entry roll
  • The recent rise in the market is due more to multiple expansion than any increase in earnings.From the entry multiple expansion
  • He may cope with the multiple choice questions, but the written exam will find him out.From the entry find out
  • Her wild mood swings displayed the natures of her multiple personalities.From the entry natures
  • A nonvolatile variable may misbehave if accessed from multiple threads at once.From the entry nonvolatile
  • They were arrested and charged in connection with multiple shimming incidents.From the entry shimming
  • There are multiple sets of matchers for various types of searches.From the entry matcher
  • I was lucky to test HIV negative after not having used condoms consistently with multiple partners.From the entry HIV negative
  • My plurisexual friends discussed attraction to people of multiple genders with me.From the entry plurisexual
  • Vocaloid producers often own multiple vocaloids and use them together in a single song.From the entry vocaloid
  • You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill.From the entry kill
  • John is a person with multiple sclerosis.From the entry with
  • The autopsy revealed he had died of multiple bullet wounds.From the entry autopsy
  • He was expelled from school multiple times for disruptive behaviour.From the entry expel
  • As this trial has now been postponed multiple times, there will be an adjournment to April 24, peremptory on the parties.From the entry peremptory
  • Mets can be found in multiple organs.From the entry mets
  • The prison break never could have succeeded if it hadn't been for multiple pay-offs to various corrupt officers.From the entry pay-off
  • The conference consists of five regular sessions spread across multiple rooms and two plenary sessions in the main auditorium.From the entry plenary session
  • Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado.From the entry slab
  • The nerve fibre arborises into multiple branches.From the entry arborise
  • Because the budget was so low, most episodes of the show had to be monoscenes to avoid building multiple expensive sets.From the entry monoscene
  • Oliveira holds multiple UFC records, notably the most submission wins in the organization's history at 17, most finishes at 21 and most bonuses at 21.From the entry finish
  • Multiple sclerosis is a neuromuscular disease.From the entry neuromuscular
  • The normal state of human affairs is many-to-many communications, each source going out to many recipients, but each recipient also having multiple sources.From the entry many-to-many
  • A full break or even multiple breaks is an older, more conservative style, as modern pants often end well above the shoe, so there is no break.From the entry break

Meaning of multiple

  1. determiner More than one (followed by plural).
  2. adjective Having more than one element, part, component, or function, having more than one instance, occurring more than once, usually contrary to expectations (can be followed by a singular).
  3. adjective Of a person: displaying or experiencing two or more distinct personalities or selves in one body.

Full definition of multiple

Questions about multiple in a sentence

How do you use multiple in a sentence?
Multiple is used as a determiner, adjective and noun. For example: “My Swiss Army knife has multiple blades.”
What is a short sentence with multiple?
“Multiple sclerosis is a neuromuscular disease.”
What does multiple mean?
Multiple means more than one (followed by plural).

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: multiple (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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