Example sentences for: tripled

How can you use “tripled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although the FBI's counterterrorism budget tripled during the mid-1990s, FBI counterterrorism spending remained fairly constant between fiscal years 1998 and 2001.

  • The stock has tripled from $18 when Willes arrived to nearly $60 today--the best performance of any big media company.

  • The first Prime Minister from one of the Prairie Provinces, Saskatchewan Tory John Diefenbaker, made himself popular with the farmers by negotiating a sale of wheat surplus to China that tripled their incomes — but unpopular with his American neighbor for doing business with the “Communist devil.”

  • What can the non-economist get from such sentences as USAT 's "In a bid to restore confidence, the Russian central bank tripled key interest rates to a staggering 150%."

  • American book-buying is on a dizzying upswing, more students are studying abroad, theatrical ticket sales are up, as is opera attendance, plus pubic radio stations have tripled since 1980--and you can get cappuccino in Arkansas.


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