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How to use threefold in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective, adverb, noun

Threefold means three times as great. Example: “This valuability resides in the threefold relevance of the transactional interests of the involved individuals.”

More sentences with threefold

  • This valuability resides in the threefold relevance of the transactional interests of the involved individuals.2012, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Calvin O. Schrag, Foundations of Morality, Human Rights, and the Human Sciences, page 20. From the entry valuability
  • The Babylonian race will hold the Roman state in its power for a threefold cycle hebdomad of years.2018, Stephen J. Shoemaker, quoting Khosrow II, “Awaiting the End of the World in Early Byzantium: Shifting Imperial Fortunes and Firm…. From the entry hebdomad
  • They foster masculine domination in a threefold manner by bringing men together, keeping men together, and putting women down.2009, Olympika. From the entry fratriarchy
  • The welcoming rite — referred to as a wiccaning, a saining, or a paganing — serves a threefold purpose.1999, Helen A. Berger, A community of witches, page 90. From the entry wiccaning
  • The classical threefold division of psychology into cognition, affection and connation has been completely abandoned in the psychology of personal constructs.1977, Donald Bannister, New Perspectives in Personal Construct Theory, page 96. From the entry connation
  • The promise is threefold: (1) clothed in white garments; (2) permanent inscripturation in the book of life; and (3) the son’s affirmation before the Father.2013 June 27, John Mark Hicks, “Revelation 3:1-6 — Prophetic Oracle For Sardis”, in John Mark Hicks: A Disciple Seeking to Follow Jesus…. From the entry inscripturation
  • However, we have been led beyond this to a threefold analysis which in its western version is body-soul-spirit and in its eastern version body-mind-atman.1994, John Hick, Death and Eternal Life, page 450. From the entry atman
  • The crisis in Afro-America is threefold.1988, Cornel West, Prophetic Fragments, page 35. From the entry Afro-America
  • In polytheism we find also a tendency to a trinitarian grouping of gods, and in each threefold group one god who was at least primus inter pares.1916, The North American Review, page 400. From the entry trinitarian
  • The cellular levels of chloroplast DNA (expressed as percent of total DNA) were found to be approximately two- to threefold higher in two albino hypohaploids than in a green hypohaploid.1989, Cannon GC, Van KT, Heinhorst S, Trinh TH, Weissbach A, “An examination of the plastid DNA of hypohaploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia…. From the entry hypohaploid

Meaning of threefold

  1. adjective Three times as great.
  2. adjective Triple.
  3. adverb By a factor of three.

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Questions about threefold in a sentence

How do you use threefold in a sentence?
Threefold is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “This valuability resides in the threefold relevance of the transactional interests of the involved individuals.”
What is a short sentence with threefold?
“The crisis in Afro-America is threefold.”
What does threefold mean?
Threefold means three times as great.

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