TREBLE in a Sentence

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For TREBLE, below is one of 22 sentences:
One hand played in the bass the melody of Silent, O Moyle, while the other hand careered in the treble after each group of notes.

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 Meanings and Examples of TREBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
treble
 v.  make threefold or triple; play or sing the highest part or most acute sounds
Classic Sentence:
1  From another window open to the air came the sound of a piano, scale after scale rising into the treble.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  One hand played in the bass the melody of Silent, O Moyle, while the other hand careered in the treble after each group of notes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
3  The piece ended with a trill of octaves in the treble and a final deep octave in the bass.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
4  She saw the wagon dimly in the dark and heard the treble piping of Wade's voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  There was a glad, quick treble of childish voices and she heard Bonnie's tones rise over Ella's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
6  As I glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the envelope.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
7  Well," replied Monte Cristo, "it will be the way, everybody says, of trebling your fortune in twelve months.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
8  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
9  I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason I twisted three of the iron bars together, bending the extremities into a hook.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V.
10  And by this visit of the Emperor to Moscow the strength of the Russian army was trebled.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I
11  She was in a state of such violent excitement that her strength was trebled.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
12  The writer doubles and trebles his style when silence is imposed on a nation by its master.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
Example Sentence:
1  They sold the house for treble the amount they paid for it.
2  He earns almost treble the amount that I do.
3  If the British were as bountiful as the Americans, donations to charities would more than treble.
4  There was a treble knock at the door.
5  They will have to pay much more when rents treble in January.
6  The victory completed a treble for the horse's owner.
7  Profits in our company will treble based on last year.
8  A new threat to Bulgaria's stability is the week-old miners' strike for a trebling of minimum pay.
9  Some goods have almost trebled in price.
10  The number of employees in the company has trebled over the past decade.