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Example sentences for "trebled"

Lexicographically close words:
treatments; treats; treaty; treatyse; treble; trebles; trebling; trebly; trebuchet; trebuchets
  1. Its very artlessness trebled the attraction of her pose.

  2. The naïveté with which this unconsciously scathing criticism was phrased and uttered trebled its poignancy.

  3. Ten years later the exploration and conquest of Peru by Pizarro trebled the influx of silver and gold.

  4. During the last quarter-century the exports have trebled in value, while the imports have increased by only about 48.

  5. The bank deposits, which had been trebled in a decade, had to earn interest on the additional 7 millions of money held and advanced.

  6. Before the first six months of 1891 had passed, it was the home of fifty or sixty settlers, a number trebled within the next few years.

  7. The value of the city of Oxford had trebled at the time of the Domesday Survey.

  8. The value of the town of Dover had trebled at the time of the Survey, in spite of the burning of the town at William's first advent.

  9. They could have trebled the Columbiad's charge; they could have quadrupled or quintupled it!

  10. This depth was doubled in December, and trebled in January.

  11. The population of England has trebled since then, and we have seen the poor-rates rise to the enormous sum of seven millions.

  12. We thus find that a diminishing population,[150] a diminishing market-value of the article produced and a diminishing means of purchase have been accompanied during a period of only six years by a more than trebled production.

  13. A lathe thus re-patterned is mentioned by Mr. Gledhill: it absorbs sixty-five horse power as against twelve formerly, and has a belt trebled in width so as to measure twelve inches.

  14. These ruffles are doubled and trebled on the top of the arm, forming there a substitute for a sleeve; and the same is done around the ankle, answering the purpose almost of a stocking, or at least concealing its absence.

  15. The sleeves were made short and tight, with long lace trebled ruffles at the elbows; and there were peaked stomachers pinned with immense care to the peaked whalebone stays.

  16. The statement of the President of the Royal Society, that the power of the Watt engine had been trebled by Trevithick, brought him no gain.

  17. But the ships I summon will be fighting their way through a trebled Thrayxite guard--and once within range of our enemy's breeder satellite, they will have little time to seek us out and effect our rescue.

  18. So the circulation doubled and trebled and quadrupled, and then doubled all over again, until it was reaching every "live" member of the order.

  19. Some years before--between one census and the next--this city is recorded to have trebled and over in population.

  20. Then immigration began to fill the deserted plains once more, and by 1785 the population had trebled itself.

  21. Our debts have been paid off, our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled themselves in value.

  22. It trebled the output of grain, and the welfare of the people has proven largely dependent on their food supply.

  23. By the time they reached Lansdale, Mildred was weary enough to be very glad of a few days' rest; rest whose delights were doubled and trebled by being taken in the society of her dear old aunt.

  24. Within the cities and upon the open lands the Italians, in this and the next century, doubled, trebled and quadrupled their numbers.

  25. I trebled his two hundred and ninety thousand, as is usual, but I could not deny that his son was named Sammy, and his daughter Pattie.

  26. He saw that my heart was set upon the purchase, and he trebled the price.

  27. His father had improved the old paternal estate, and trebled its original value; and shared, in no common degree, the parsimonious disposition of his son.

  28. The dawn-birds trebled their matin greeting and a pearly flush located the eastern quarter of the sky.

  29. As a result of the reform, however, the revenues from the royal forests trebled in 20 years.

  30. This army has been more disgusted than surprised that by some sinister process on the part of certain individuals at home, its numbers have been, generally, almost trebled in our public papers, beginning at Washington.

  31. It was pointed out that only a month before his recovery the Kenwick estate had trebled its value, owing to the fact that leather goods, which were the source of the Kenwick income, had trebled in value since the beginning of the war.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trebled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.