Double

The closet has double doors.

“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Such is not the usage of civilized warfare. Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.

Give me a double serving of mashed potatoes.

The Shanghai-based company reported Wednesday that net profit soared 246% to 28 billion yuan ($3.9 billion) in the first quarter of 2024, more than double the average analyst estimate of 12.62 billion yuan ($1.7 billion), according to LSEG data.

He's my double cousin as my mother's sister married my father's brother.

a double room

a double garage

a double meaning

a double life

A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel; Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,

a double bass

February 7 1736, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope I was double their age.

When I met the twins, I thought I was seeing double.

There are only a few beds, so some of the children will have to sleep double for the night.

The old man was bent double under his heavy burden.

Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.

On second thought, make that a double.

According to the description our captain had given me of Peter Sandaker once when he had dropped behind on the march, he was particularly good at telling tales and stories about goblin-birds, doubles, and fairies, and had a special fancy for entering into the most minute details, whenever he commenced telling about one or the other of the eighteen bears he had killed in his time.

I have more than 200 stamps in my collection but they're not all unique: some are doubles.

Before printing the photos, Liam deleted the doubles.

The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.

Brecel fired in doubles, a succession of stunning long pots and seemingly cleared balls at will as he rattled through the first four frames in under an hour.

Not only did I collect on the double; I had the win and the place money as well.

The sine function returns a double.

DJ Campbell grabbed a second-half double as Blackpool made Sunderland pay for a host of missed chances to secure a fifth away league win of the season.

In 1996, Michael Johnson achieved a double by winning both the 200 and 400 meter dashes.

As for doubles, they are not worth anything now; and I have still got an egg-cupful my mother used to keep handy to give the baker change from a farthing.

The saxophone is a valuable and rewarding double, and opens up many gigs that aren’t available to players of just the “orchestral” woodwinds.

His fellows had chaffed him much upon the way that astute adventurer had bamboozled him, or, in their vernacular, "put the double on him," and vowed that all his energies should be devoted to a return match.

The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter.

Our earnings have doubled in the last year.

Thus re-inforc’d, againſt the adverſe Fleet / Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way.

To make a pleat, double the material at the waist.

The batter doubled into the corner.

A spork is a kind of fork that doubles as a spoon.

Laforêt, who (as the French express it), doubles Lainez, that is, performs the same characters in his absence.

[…] and when she attempted to double the part of her mother, she equally failed in playing the great or agreeable lady.

When, therefore, Briggs, the sedate, middle-aged individual, who in the Markham household doubles the roles of butler and valet, makes his appearance, his master affects to be in a great hurry, looks at his watch, and says : […]

Miss Theby doubles in the part of Rose and the native girl in the Philippines. This is a problem plot in which a young man leaves the girl of his choice because she has had an affair in her earlier years. He goes to the Philippines, […]

In On the Beat he doubles the parts of a constable and a gang-leader. Norman was all over the place.

In his case the matter is simplified by the fact that the head of his Deception Staff doubles the roles of author and producer. The Commander therefore tells him what sort of deception he needs, examines the plans produced for him […]

Sailing along the coast, he doubled the promontory of Carthage.

[…] though the Iſland itſelf was not very large […] I found a great Ledge of Rocks lie out about two Leagues into the Sea[…]ſo that I was oblig’d to go a great Way out to Sea to double the Point.

"You double down to the harbour, my lad," said the Captain to Strickland, "and sign on. You've got your papers." Strickland set off at once, and that was the last Captain Nichols saw of him.

Sorry, this store does not double coupons.

Could you please repeat your last transmission? Another station was doubling with you.

Was this simply the cover name of an Allied spy-code named the Brass Monkey? […] The possibility that the Brass Monkey himself was "doubling" (with headquarters' approval, of course) is too logical […]