2 example sentences using three-fold.
Three-fold used in a sentence
Three-fold in a sentence as an adjective
This has a three-fold benefit: it cuts down on the amount of e-mail I receive over the course of the semester because students realize I won't answer frivolous e-mails twelve hours after they're sent. If I have follow-up questions, or the student does, those questions are easier to ask face-to-face.
When you search google for a small phrase, for example, oauth authorization: search query: oauth authorization About 525,000 results search query: oauth "authorization" About 1,470,000 results How does the result not only increase, but increase nearly three-fold? I've always thought the quotes were meant to be more exact.
Three-fold definitions
three times as great or many; "a claim for treble (or triple) damages"; "a threefold increase"
having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble meaning"-Frederick Harrison