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Example sentences for "tenfold"

Lexicographically close words:
tenes; tenesmus; tenet; tenets; tenetur; tenga; tengan; tenge; tengo; tenia
  1. Then, in one night had come the warm breath of the west winds, and within a few hours the earth was transformed as though by magic, and the restless longing within his breast awoke with tenfold intensity.

  2. It is cruel to loose every bond but that which galls most sorely, to pluck away every thorn but that which pricks most sharply: all the perceptions gather to that point, and the suffering is in consequence tenfold more acute.

  3. The pity which he had felt for the unnamed woman grew to a tenfold pity for her.

  4. The faith which he professed--honestly professed--in the better nature of the unnamed woman strengthened into a tenfold faith in her.

  5. With tenfold power and tenfold persuasion they now found their way again to Mercy's heart.

  6. This involuntary outburst of feeling and gratitude that their "master" was safe, repaid him tenfold for all the suffering and peril he had endured.

  7. To go swift and yet straight as the cannon ball or lightning's flash, gives to any man's actions tenfold power.

  8. Even despair could not inspire the soft Bengalee with courage to confront men of English breed, the hereditary nobility of mankind, whose skill and valour had so often triumphed in spite of tenfold odds.

  9. It had been abundantly proved that neither tenfold odds, nor the martial ardour of the boldest Asiatic nations, could avail ought against English science and resolution.

  10. The Civil War changed all this, reducing importations and adding tenfold to the revenue required.

  11. Nature has given boundless gifts of coquetry to a woman, the usages of society have increased them tenfold by its fashions, its dresses, its embroideries and its tippets.

  12. When condemned to pay a fine, he gets up a public collection, which brings in tenfold the amount of the penalty.

  13. Ought one to believe that a multitude became a single being, as it were, able to increase the power of auto-suggestion tenfold upon itself?

  14. People who were clever enough to scent the course which the new thoroughfares would take and purchase buildings threatened with demolition increased their capital tenfold in a couple of years.

  15. The horror of the story of course increased tenfold the moment a nexus was established.

  16. She had now returned strengthened, and eager for her former studies, and resumed them with tenfold zest.

  17. Now the passion awoke with tenfold force, and he had not been in his place a week before he began to make sketches of little things that pleased him.

  18. He could not understand, as so many cannot, that such natures when aroused are tenfold more intense than those whom little things excite.

  19. The capture of Newcastle's army in York would have been ill compensated by advantages tenfold greater than Rupert obtained in Lancashire; and York was very nearly lost.

  20. One need realise very fully the conditions of the battle, the absurd mismanagement of the French leaders, and the helplessness of their masses, not to multiply tenfold the numbers given, which nevertheless are authentic.

  21. This longing was increased tenfold by my passion for a lovely girl as poor as myself, but even more richly endowed with ancestors.

  22. He did not intend to deceive you; and he was in the right when he said that he had the means of repaying us tenfold for what we did for him.

  23. Then it was a disgraceful imposition on his part, setting forth to me that he was able to repay us tenfold for all our trouble.

  24. And if a special hand is not upraised to strew his path of life with tenfold the sharp pangs that drove his victim to an early grave,' cried I, 'it can only be, that it has already sent the monster to his last fearful account.

  25. But no sooner was the Giant down, than up he bounced again, with tenfold might, and such a furious visage as was horrible to behold.

  26. The grass and the grain began to sprout with tenfold vigor and luxuriance, to make up for the dreary months that had been wasted in barrenness.

  27. When men once turn to brutes, the trifle of man's wit that remains in them adds tenfold to their brutality.

  28. Its broken hymns grew tenfold sweeter, now that they were felt to be but the learning of the anthems to be sung above.

  29. Of those precious years which He had sojourned among them, tenfold more time had been spent in doing what every man must do, than in doing what He seemed to have come especially to do.

  30. In the word He had left to guide His own, tenfold more space was given to directions how to do His will in this land of exile than to revealing the glories of the abiding Home.

  31. But waiving illustrations of this sort, is it not manifest that most of the capital objections urged against the new system lie with tenfold weight against the existing Confederation?

  32. Tenfold was his astonishment increased when, after retracing in silence their journey of the preceding day, the Hall, on their arrival about noon, was found in a state of uttermost confusion.

  33. And if a special hand is not upraised to strew his path of life with tenfold the sharp pangs that he employed to drive his victim to an early grave," cried I, "it can only be that it has already crushed the monster into death.

  34. I know that Christian doctrines have ever been unpalatable, but if there is something in my presentation of them that is going to make them tenfold more so, then I will be dumb.

  35. At the same moment the storm appeared to develop into tenfold intensity, and to equal those terrible tempests on the prairies in which Hemstead remembered, with a shudder, that strong men and horses had perished within a few yards of shelter.

  36. How nerved their arm, opposed to tenfold might, 69 Who for the dearest hopes, their homes, their offspring fight!


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