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In such States, accordingly, we see wealth multiply, both that which comes from agriculture and that which comes from manufactures.

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 Meanings and Examples of MULTIPLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
multiply
 v.  add a number to itself a particular number of times; combine by multiplication
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the industries of other arrondissements.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR
2  We cannot think without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of vermin.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
3  Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are brought eventually to the same clearness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
4  The necessary tactics of insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS
5  It would be going only to multiply trouble to the others, and increase his own distress; and a much better scheme followed and was acted upon.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  There are small lateral columns of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
7  In such States, accordingly, we see wealth multiply, both that which comes from agriculture and that which comes from manufactures.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
8  The badly employed are those which, notwithstanding they may be few in the commencement, multiply with time rather than decrease.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII — CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINC...
9  And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
10  It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
11  As he was at last compelled to pay attention to them, his capacity for self-hate was multiplied.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  The multiplied pain caused him to swear with incredible power.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
13  The boat now began, with heavy groans, like some vast, tired monster, to prepare to push up among the multiplied steamers at the levee.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  That thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes Saint-Marcel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
15  She multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
Example Sentence:
1  The process by which malignant cancer cells multiply isn't fully understood.
2  When animals have more food, they generally multiply faster.
3  Children will learn to multiply in the second grade.
4  Think of a number and multiply it by two.
5  In warm weather these germs multiply rapidly.
6  This isn't the first time Singapore's leaders have asked citizens to go forth and multiply for the good of the nation.
7  Four multiplied by five is twenty.
8  Just imagine all the problems we've been having, multiplied a thousandfold.
9  Results: The CGCs of PA and PM multiplied in form of multi-point blast, rotating end blast, schizogenesis and comb-shaped growth.
10  Our problems have multiplied since last year.
11  The accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.