QUADRUPLE in a Sentence

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Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUADRUPLE
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quadruple
 v.  increase fourfold; become four times as big
 a.  having four units or components
Classic Sentence:
1  He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
2  Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
3  The droning voice of the professor continued to wind itself slowly round and round the coils it spoke of, doubling, trebling, quadrupling its somnolent energy as the coil multiplied its ohms of resistance.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
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