Running multiple commands in one line in shell

Say I have a file /templates/apple and I want to

1. put it in two different places and then
2. remove the original.

So, /templates/apple will be copied to /templates/used AND /templates/inuse
and then after that I’d like to remove the original.

Is cp the best way to do this, followed by rm? Or is there a better way?

I want to do it all in one line so I’m thinking it would look something like:

cp /templates/apple /templates/used | cp /templates/apple /templates/inuse | rm /templates/apple

Is this the correct syntax?