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six times

adv. by a factor of six; "the population of this town increased sixfold when gold was found in the surrounding hills" [syn: sixfold]

Usage examples of "six times".

He removed it from the cleaning rod, then put a new one on the tip, and repeated the motion six times until the last patch came through totally clean.

She went through that machine about six times, like a merry-go-round.

You wouldn't know to look at it but Augustine is the most active volcano in Alaska, having erupted six times in the last century.

She had more than once been seen - it was always at night - beside some well, sitting on the brink of it, and leaning over and stirring it with her forefinger, which was six times as long as any of the rest.

But out he came on the other side, and crept over it next, and again under it, and so over it, under it, over it, five or six times, every time leaving a coil of himself behind him, until he had softly folded all his length about the lord chamberlain and his bed.

The longest dimension was five or six times the shortest, including two fat tentacles or pseudopods extending toward Compassionate Hand territory.

But it was all that he had, and he played it with wearisome monotony for every camp call--five or six times a day, and seven days in the week.

Without waiting for a response, she upended the boy on her knee and smacked him hard, six times.

We bring our catches down five, six times a year to trade for salt-water stuff.

Five, six times a year, somebody takes a private time-trip behind his Courier’.

Carey Lou was in the third group, and maybe six times he asked the same question.