TRIPLE in a Sentence

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This triple paradox in Mr. Washington's position is the object of criticism by two classes of colored Americans.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRIPLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
triple
 a.  having three parts of the same type, or happening three times
 a.  multiplied by three; threefold
Classic Sentence:
1  Scarlett dispatched Mammy to Tara immediately for the triple purpose of giving Will the money, announcing her marriage and bringing Wade to Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  As he approached he looked up at the triple row of windows, wondering boyishly which one of them was hers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
3  Their triple glare was paralyzing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  They glowered with bent brows, but dangerously, upon some of the officers, more particularly upon the red-bearded one with the voice of triple brass.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some consecrated paten.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE
6  The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors of sheet iron, which were studded with enormous bolts.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
7  Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being final, the human trinity proceeds from it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
8  Milady frowned slightly; a scarcely visible cloud passed over her brow, and so peculiar a smile appeared upon her lips that the young man, who saw and observed this triple shade, almost shuddered at it.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH
9  For princely Alcides the avenger came glorious in the spoils of triple Geryon slain; this way the Conqueror drove the huge bulls, and his oxen filled the river valley.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
10  But Caesar rode into the city of Rome in triple triumph, and dedicated his vowed offering to the gods to stand for ever, three hundred stately shrines all about the city.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
11  It was Mistress Hibbins, who, arrayed in great magnificence, with a triple ruff, a broidered stomacher, a gown of rich velvet, and a gold-headed cane, had come forth to see the procession.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
12  This triple paradox in Mr. Washington's position is the object of criticism by two classes of colored Americans.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
13  And the stores and warehouses along the railroad track near the depot, which were part of her inheritance, had tripled in value since the war began.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  In a single decade the cotton output increased four-fold and the value of lands was tripled.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  The people will revolt when bread prices triple again.
2  By convention, many web site names start with triple W, that means world wide web.
3  Ashia Hansen rediscovered her best form with a morale-boosting win in the triple jump.
4  They're showing a triple bill of horror movies.
5  A Bank of Israel survey has now shown that the number of families living below the poverty line in Israel tripled between 1988 and 2001.