How To Use Treble In A Sentence

Their risk of dying in childbirth is doubled and of having stillborn babies trebled, and other physical, sexual, and relationship problems are common.
The deal is expected to more than treble its production next year, creating enhanced cashflow to fund exploration in other oil provinces.
One thing for certain though is that we have a squad full of quality and confidence, and that last season's treble is only a sign of things to come.
Every south coast derby is important but because of the club's position, stage of the season, and what's at stake the magnitude of this fixture has trebled tenfold.
In all, some 15.5 million pills were confiscated and the street price for the drug doubled or trebled over the course of the three months from February 1 to April 30.

In the past six years, 41,000 shared ownership homes have been built and the new scheme will more than treble this number. The Sun
Rather than going for a trixie with today's multiple selections, I am happy to put The Hague, Sphere and Wee Forbees in a win treble.
The study showed the cooking herb is popular with the 300 men and women who have hit treble figures. The Sun
In the past six years, 41,000 shared ownership homes have been built and the new scheme will more than treble this number. The Sun
When he joined the choir at age 8 ½, singing treble, he was told that he would never be more than a chorister. The King of the Lyric Basses
To the right, the Presence control adds treble by reducing the amount of high frequencies in the feedback loop.
A credit to his trainer Rod Millman, the stayer became the first to complete a Northumberland Plate-Ebor-Cesarewitch treble not even attempted since 1911.
Peter James-Robinson also enjoyed a treble success, winning gold in the snooker and silver medals in the slalom and bowls.
They will be asked to list the great treble winners and he will be at its heart. Times, Sunday Times
But cheating hubbies treble the danger of heart attacks, have more stress and are more likely to smoke and drink. The Sun
Sales last year were almost treble its 2009 total. Times, Sunday Times
Every word has a double, treble, or centuple use and meaning. XVIII. Essays. Beauty. 1860
The treble and bass pipes chest ventils for a particular type of pipe voice are connected or coupled together.
He started out as a boy treble and later, after his voice broke, joined Ontario's provincial youth choir.
Within two years the affected mines had recovered sufficiently to have doubled and, in some cases, trebled their profits.
It found that floods and landslides had trebled since 1980 and storms had doubled. Times, Sunday Times
He would be back next season plotting a treble treble. Times, Sunday Times
These voices are divided into four categories; haute-contre (high tenor/male alto), taille (low tenor/lyric baritone) and basse (bass) for masculine voices, and dessus (treble) for high voices. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos!
The treble winners in 2015 found themselves fighting relegation and playing in the Qualifiers. The Sun
The treble winners in 2015 found themselves fighting relegation and playing in the Qualifiers. The Sun
She is a Muslim woman from Bandra Bazar Road , and she is unhappy , she votes for the Congress , but she finds that it has not helped her much , she has come to meet Rahebar Khan the local corporator, she cant take life anymore, her electric bill has trebled , prices of all essential commodities has skyrocketed and she is stuck in a groove of discontent. Archive 2009-08-01
A perforated music-sheet for a mechanical musical instrument, having its upper or treble notes or perforations duplicated or triplicated, & co., and arranged above or below the regular scale of the music-sheet, for the purpose specified. Archive 2005-12-01
But without an effective rural medical network, fighting rural epidemics would probably need double or treble the effort.
There were those who profited from the event, none more so than the tilers, bricklayers and glaziers whose wages trebled.
the treble clef
Like Inter, Bayern Munich are eyeing a title treble from the Champions League, domestic league and national cup. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
The balance between treble and bass is just right and there's no doubting this is a top-notch system that any self-respecting audiophile would be happy to own.
New production facilities were trebled in size and factories were built. Times, Sunday Times
So how about three doubles and a treble? The Sun
His salary is treble mine.
During a visit to England in 1977, Ali played an exhibition match at a pub in the North-east, against Welsh champion Alan Evans, who was only allowed to score on trebles, to keep the match competitive.
Then there was a bit where they asked his income and he thought of a number and trebled it. The Sun
The next house was deserted, the door of the third place was slammed in his face before he could even make known his wants, and he was beginning to wonder if he must go breakfastless when a shrill, childish treble rang out clearly on the still morning air: At the Little Brown House
MUNICH: Bayern Munich coach Louis van Gaal has admitted his side contains a few 'cissies' in their ranks as the German giants bid to win the treble of Champions League, The Times of India
The volume of wine produced may well have trebled to 900,000 hectolitres at the same time.
The pieces share the traits typical of their genre in the later 15th century: a treble-dominated texture, probably intended for texted performance of the top voice and solmized or instrumental performance of the lower voices; a contrapuntal structure built around a duet of discantus and tenor with an added contratenor; a break roughly halfway through corresponding to the division in the poetic form; and a prevailing line-for-line agreement of music and refrain text. Archive 2009-05-01
Bet the usual four trebles and an accumulator. The Sun
In a game three days earlier he had grabbed a treble in just three minutes. The Sun
Becoming a parent can be a daunting experience, but she and her husband had treble the shock when they learned they were expecting triplets.
They will be asked to list the great treble winners and he will be at its heart. Times, Sunday Times
On the decani side Patrick Ovens, a red-haired little treble, was kept awake by the necessity for altering _Magnificat_ into _Magnified The Nebuly Coat
For them, the call of each of these birds is distinct, with its own melody, structure, pitch, base and treble.
The coalition government won the vote to treble fees to 9,000 a year despite three junior ministerial resignations and a backbench rebellion. Times, Sunday Times
The number of officers below superintendent to gain the medal has trebled and the number of chiefs more than halved. Times, Sunday Times
This strongly implies that even in the Durham version the verse material, as in the original consort song, was meant to be sung by a treble.
It was a pity that so few attended for the first part of the treble header as both teams served up a thriller laced with the finest of hurling skills and players with real potential for the future.
Betfred is giving away a free £10 Lucky 15 on the St Leger meeting at Doncaster on Saturday and will pay treble the odds for only one winner.
We probably spend treble the amount of time on it. Times, Sunday Times
The concert happened to be performed by an old acquaintance of mine, who I used to know many moons ago, when we were both angelic little trebles in local parish church choir.
There is also another parallel stream of procedure relating to proceedings brought privately, for example, proceedings to recover multiple damages, treble damages, perhaps.
But for a quire to lose the treble, why, my sonnies, you may so well lose your ... Under the Greenwood Tree
In Botswana, with a relatively wealthy economy due to income from diamond mining, it is estimated that health spending will more than treble over the next 10 years.
Instead, it sounds like some of the upper range treble was simple repeated out of the rear channels - so you get a slight echo off Marley's voice and the cymbals.
That treble followed up another three at Hartlepool just four weeks ago. The Sun
Tavener cautions us in the liner notes not to expect anything ‘dramatic in the Western sense’, and so the treble repeats his phrase to launch all Paul's verses.
The 17th and 18th-century trio sonata was a favourite chamber ensemble, using two treble instruments and one bass, with a keyboard or lute continuo to fill in the harmony.
Rule, it being but _two whole Notes_ from the next _half Note_ to it; the reason is this, the _Ninth_ is one _whole Note_ below the _Eighth_, therefore the 2 must be a _whole Note_ below the _Treble_, otherwise they would not be a true _Eighth_, therefore the _half Note_ is put between 2 and 3. Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing Wherein is laid down plain and easie Rules for Ringing all sorts of Plain Changes
You remember in 'Henry IV' — 'The case of a treble hautboy Local Color
The flageolet was the latest form of the treble, beak, or whistle head flute. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
In contrast, Arsenal are steaming towards a treble as they bid to become the first team to go through a Premiership season unbeaten.
Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s.
Nor was there in the second innings when he was again out for nought to complete a treble failure. Great Sporting Failures
He would be back next season plotting a treble treble. Times, Sunday Times
If possible, turn treble to high and bass to medium. Secrets of the Soil
One of the commonest consorts in the Elizabethan period was the combination of treble viol or violin, flute or recorder, bass viol, lute, cittern, and bandora, for which Morley wrote his Consort Lessons in 1599.
The price of potash has trebled in the past decade and mining companies are investing heavily in the sector. Times, Sunday Times
Waitrose says sales of 18 English sparkling wines have risen by almost a third compared with last Christmas, and Ridgeview, a wine maker in the South Downs, reports trebled sales in the last two years. English sparkling wine comes of age with French boost
The levels are balanced, and there is a nice mix of treble and bass.
All the parts except the bass trombone are written in treble clef and transposed to make it easy for players to change from one instrument to another.
These bad loans almost trebled last year. Times, Sunday Times
If you left the voluntary sector and took a well-paid job in commerce, you would be able to double or treble what you give to charity! Times, Sunday Times
We'd all like to treble our pay. The Sun
every episode has its double and treble meaning
More than 7 million shares changed hands, treble the normal daily average.
A bass or baritone oboe, an octave below the treble, has always been rare, though composers do occasionally write for it and the wider-bore but otherwise similar heckelphone.
He had read about them in a book called Magnet Stories, where there was a girl called Theodosia, and she could play brilliant trebles on the piano in duets, but the other girl knew all about leeches which is much more useful and golden deedy. The Wouldbegoods
The two satellite speakers sit near by monitor and allow me to further adjust bass and treble at a push of a button.
The Flying Scotsman has a degenerative eye condition and plays in part from memory because he struggles to focus on doubles and trebles. The Sun
That treble followed up another three at Hartlepool just four weeks ago. The Sun
It would be the first treble of his 10-year career and a great way to crown one of his best campaigns.
It is, however, more generally thought that it is thereby meant that he was the freedman or liberated slave of some Roman noble of the family of the Claudii.] [Footnote 17: _Treble flutes and bass flutes_) -- The history of ancient music, and especially that relative to the “tibiæ,” The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes
The number of officers below superintendent to gain the medal has trebled and the number of chiefs more than halved. Times, Sunday Times
By 2004 enough money had been raised to cast two new treble bells and complete the ring of ten.
The most basic signal processing is already in the head-end unit and can take the form of tone controls like bass and treble, and other functions to balance the sound from front to back or side to side.
They sing with relish, and understanding, and only the busy part-writing towards the end of Haydn's Te Deum appears ready to swallow the trebles.
The lower oboes are treated as transposing instruments, their parts written to be fingered like treble oboe parts.
‘Carnival Fun’ drills harmonic intervals on treble or bass staff.
But a nurse wrongly set her feeding machine to deliver treble the correct amount of fluid. The Sun
Sustained lines for the soprano, joined by a boy treble kept from his bed for five minutes' worth of work, provide vocal variety.
The Prelude no.15 itself begins as an idyllic stroll full of anticipation and becomes more emphatic as the bass line takes over the melody and the treble assumes the role of harmony.
So how about three doubles and a treble? The Sun
It came out on top at the strongly contested industry awards for engineering excellence - making it a record treble success.
The volume of wine produced may well have trebled to 900,000 hectolitres at the same time.
After just two matches of the new season, the points against tally has already reached treble figures.
Mobile phone bills are set to rise after the industry watchdog said it would treble the fees it charges networks for airspace to 200 million a year. Times, Sunday Times
Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a court: and now has he land and beefs. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
His wife plays the flute and the recorder and his son sings as a treble.
What I want to say is that there is a lot of pressure on preparing singles, and many players fail exactly here, while they hit doubles or trebles nicely.
One of the album's principle plagues is the near total lack of low-end - - all that unsupported treble gets tiresome after a while.
a treble row of red beads
New production facilities were trebled in size and factories were built. Times, Sunday Times
The coalition government won the vote to treble fees to 9,000 a year despite three junior ministerial resignations and a backbench rebellion. Times, Sunday Times
The number of people paying fraudsters to take their driving test for them has almost trebled in three years. Times, Sunday Times
The number of people aged 80 years and over is forecast to more than treble from 98,000 in 2001, to about 320,000 in 2036.
Carrying plugs festooned with treble hooks is a price that is inevitably paid by the penitent plug fisherman.
Jo Wherry, on violin and treble viol, played an excellent descant solo, and Jonathan Burr, who is able to produce music on the difficult mediaeval cornett, also has a pleasant singing voice.
We've always had a choir made up of boy and girl trebles, together with male altos, tenors and basses.
They sold the house for treble the amount they paid for it.
Swinton coach Phil Veivers was delighted with his side's performance as they completed a memorable treble of victories against Whitehaven.
Believe me when I say this, there's not much treble on this album.
We'd all like to treble our pay. The Sun
The piece requires the player to shift the focus of the melody line from the treble to the bass.
Off-course layers will always keep hot-pots, his in particular, tight because of doubles and trebles and other multiple bets.
So how about three doubles and a treble? The Sun
‘The students come in and have a treble vodka with a dash of Corky's and a dash of coke, for £3.50,’ said Arthur.
There are three main sizes of modern oboe: the normal treble, the alto oboe d' amore, and the tenor cor anglais or English horn.
One of the commonest consorts in the Elizabethan period was the combination of treble viol or violin, flute or recorder, bass viol, lute, cittern, and bandora, for which Morley wrote his Consort Lessons in 1599.
This is usually the backstroke of the Treble's full lead.
The number of officers below superintendent to gain the medal has trebled and the number of chiefs more than halved. Times, Sunday Times
If possible, turn treble to high and bass to medium. Secrets of the Soil
If you treble the distance, the gravitational attraction gets nine times weaker.
The treble winners in 2015 found themselves fighting relegation and playing in the Qualifiers. The Sun
Leyton Orient v Swindon, Gillingham v Rotherham and Hereford v Macclesfield are all closely matched on paper and it could pay to do a trixie (three doubles and a treble) on all three finishing level at 9-4 apiece.
Our headcount has more than trebled since; and the typical Indian can now expect to live twice as long.
One wall is made up of cabinets containing hundreds of CDs, and a stereo on which the bass and treble are permanently turned up full.
He completed his treble four minutes into the second half with a sensational solo effort. The Sun
They will have to pay much more when rents treble in January.
Family after family were thrown out on the roads for arrears of rent, a rent which in some cases had been trebled, with no provision for their protection or shelter.
By the time it hits the city shelves, imported fruit more than trebles in price.
A higher plateau was reached when, within six months of joining Celtic, he had proved hugely influential in the club's only treble success outside of the Jock Stein era.
Then there was a bit where they asked his income and he thought of a number and trebled it. The Sun
He completed his treble four minutes into the second half with a sensational solo effort. The Sun
For working on a public holiday, they will receive treble their usual pay.
Likewise, audio is clean and remarkably dynamic; even the extensive use of treble in the bird song doesn't reveal any distortion or buzz.
Five years earlier, in 1735 as a treble, he had sung the role of Oberto in Alcina.
In a game three days earlier he had grabbed a treble in just three minutes. The Sun
The manager was hailed as a messiah after Celtic enjoyed a march to glory in 2001, when they secured the treble.
Sometimes it can treble, which will put borrowers in a difficult situation to raise more money for repayments. Times, Sunday Times
There were those who profited from the event, none more so than the tilers, bricklayers and glaziers whose wages trebled.
He completed his treble four minutes into the second half with a sensational solo effort. The Sun
But that treble disappointment also once again stoked the fires which have fuelled his passion for the game for more than half a century, and he has already dug in for the long haul.
Winemaker Bob Oatley's all-conquering Wild Oats XI, a $15 million dollar thoroughbred, seeks a fifth straight line honours victory after taking the treble of race record, line honours and hcp winner on debut in 2005 in 1 day, 18 hours and 40 minutes. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
In good years, the rewards could be double or treble that. Times, Sunday Times
the boy still had a fine treble voice
I also felt pain, and to avoid its endurance for me, I openly and avowedly burdened others with double, treble, centuple its amount. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
Any fish that escapes with a treble hook in the throat is a dead fish. 25 Tips for Saltwater Fishing
Electricity costs will probably treble, according to that representative.
Church leaders have been forced to cover the windows with iron grilles and wooden boarding and the building's insurers have almost trebled the premiums.
He may not garner the headlines that some of his teammates accrue, but Lambert is the heartbeat of the robust team which has been transformed into treble winners under O'Neill.
The painting portrays Renaissance instruments with great accuracy: a tenor or alto shawm, a precursor of the English horn; a Gothic harp; a brass trumpet; a portative organ; a vielle, an early form of violin; a soprano or treble shawm, a distant forerunner of the oboe; a lute; three recorders; a dulcimer being struck by a light hammer; and a harp. Archive 2009-06-01
There was a treble knock at the door.
It is a thud if the pressure be more acute, and the pattering, which is almost identical to the effect produced by a drop of water rolling on the inside of a sensitive ear, occurs when there is a double or treble intermission. Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men
My buddys german shorthair pointer was out trolling in the boat with us one day and as i was about to drop a rainbow coloured rapala into the water, the dog jumped up and took all three sets of treble hooks in the lips. Hooks in Household Pets
Mario for example went 180 180 60 and just landed his 8th dart beside the wire in the treble 7 on his attempt.
Both made their error at the treble which was by far the most troublesome obstacle.
Over the last year the price of sugar, wheat flour and tea has trebled and the cost of other basic household consumer goods has risen by 30 percent.
The 5.1 track is a step up, with bright trebles and excellent distribution to the rear channels.
The bass is more present than before, and the occasional stridency of the treble has been tamed without an apparent loss of musical information.
Pattinson's security trebled to protect him from 'bloodsucking' fans Undefined
In view of her status and the requirement on her to set an example, I shall double the donation I expect for the Diver Lifeboat Fund to a treble crunchie, based on a fine of a oncer for every time she used the F-word and each of various B-words.
For lively baits, such as rudd, I fix the paternoster to the leading treble.
The trixie would give us a nice profit should two win and if all three hit, the treble alone is a massive 40-1 shot.
The controls allow you to switch between bass, treble and flat settings and quick-scan through tracks, but it can't fast forward or rewind.
Centuries ago, when the fires about Teyde were still alight, and the lava-fields about Orotava were still burning, the rate of draconian increase, under the influence of heat and moisture, might have been treble or quadruple what it would now be. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
There was a treble knock at the door.
Half a billion people already use them, a figure expected to more than treble in five years.
Apart from good sound, you will find controls for bass, treble and sound balance that is not common in PDAs.
The Irish firm also paid out £8,000 to a London punter for a £40 trixie (three doubles and a treble) on three correct half-time/full-time predictions on Saturday.
The 17th and 18th-century trio sonata was a favourite chamber ensemble, using two treble instruments and one bass, with a keyboard or lute continuo to fill in the harmony.
They are potentially liable to the artist for the artist's losses, for an allocable portion the profits they earned, attorneys fees and treble damages (in the trademark cases).
On a related note, I replaced a treble hook with a single hook on a phoebe spoon recently to match some regulations. Trout Spinner Primer
We probably spend treble the amount of time on it. Times, Sunday Times
This strongly implies that even in the Durham version the verse material, as in the original consort song, was meant to be sung by a treble.
The market for organic food in Ireland is expected to more than treble over the next four years.
The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close. Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades
If possible, turn treble to high and bass to medium. Secrets of the Soil
New production facilities were trebled in size and factories were built. Times, Sunday Times
If you don't know, it's basically a potentiometer which alters the relative bass/treble of the sound.
Most distressfully (but, my dear, how successfully!) to wail he did, his locks of a lucan tinge, quickrich, ripely rippling, unfilleted, those lashbetasselled lids on the verge of closing time, whiles ouze of his sidewiseopen mouth the breath of him, evenso languishing as the princeliest treble treacle or lichee chewchow purse could buy. Finnegans Wake
The standard fife, the old Renaissance treble, is pitched in B and has six finger holes.
The solo instrumental part, in the treble clef, has a melody line characterised by a falling figure, often an augmented fourth.
The share price has broadly trebled over the past three years. Times, Sunday Times
He was a keen bricklayer and built a treble garage with a pitched roof and cavity walls.
A trebles bet means three must win and a roll-up means they all have to win.
They are fitted with two or three sets of small treble hooks and a short, stubby plastic lip.
The mode of working is as follows: For shell plates, from five-eighths inch to seven-eighths inch thick, to warm each to a dark red heat before rolling, having previously drilled a few holes to template for bolting the strakes together; the longitudinal seams are usually lap joints treble riveted, requiring the corners to be thinned, which is done after rolling. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
a claim for treble (or triple) damages
The tastefulness of his treble viol playing and the more resonant, lower lyra viol is fetching, and his rhythmic liveliness is always in evidence, but 28 dances are slightly too much of a very good thing. Jordi Savall: The Celtic Viol II – review
We probably spend treble the amount of time on it. Times, Sunday Times
He can complete a treble. Times, Sunday Times
Her second round of 55 was achieved despite a treble bogey at the downhill 16th courtesy of twos at the second, fifth, twelfth, thirteenth and seventeenth.
A very good crowd, a treble for local trainer Willie Mullins and a satisfactory run by old Danoli were the highlights on a day which also saw a fine performance from debutante Get It Done in the concluding bumper.
For Manchester United to be hunting another treble 11 months after the Carling Cup was the only trophy to make its way to Old Trafford is a lesson in self-renewal, and one Chelsea may care to study. Manchester United dream of treble after sweeping aside Chelsea | Paul Hayward
Crawley earned £1m from a single match at Old Trafford last season and Havant & Waterlooville's run to the fourth round in 2007-08, when they eventually lost 5-2 to Liverpool at Anfield, more than trebled their income for that season. FA in talks with Premier League over avoiding Cup final fixture clash
He earns treble my salary.

How To Use Treble In A Sentence

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