How to Use couple in a Sentence

couple

1 of 3 noun

• Seventeen couples participated in the survey.
• The band has spent much of the past couple years on the road in support of the two LPs.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2024
• The couple know the island well; Bezos has a home on Maui to the south of where the fires hit.
  — Devin Sean Martin, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• The couple met in 1989 when Julia worked as a law clerk at the firm where Ken worked.
  — Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
• But in the past couple of years, things have been slowing down.
  — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• The couple who originally owned the spoon were both born in the 1880s in Pisa, Italy.
  — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 20 June 2023
• The couple called it quits in 2004 after three years of dating.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• Add any names of dates of your choosing—this makes a great gift for couples, too.
  — Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2023
• But the Tu couple hasn’t felt this connected in a long time.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
• Moore will serve as a special guest on the episode, with the couples and their dance styles to be announced soon.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2023
• Inara is unemployed, and the couple doesn’t have a lot of money.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
• Hider told the couple that her XB Scion had broken down about an eighth of a mile away and asked for their help.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The couple first began cooking free meals for those in need at the start of the pandemic.
  — Rachel Rosenbaum, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2023
• To mark the milestone, the rapper shared a rare glimpse into the couple’s life as soon-to-be parents of two.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 June 2023
• Soon, the couple plans to add Purin, a Japanese custard pudding, to the menu.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2023
• The couple would get married anyway in 1958, in a judge’s chamber.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• The couple now have two boys: 2-and-a-half-year-old Miran was born in Providence.
  — Jenna Pelletier, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
• Prior to the trip to the Titanic site, the couple took other dives with the company.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• The couple announced the arrival of Violet in June 2016.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• The couple, who have four adult daughters, moved there from the northeast side of Indy about two years ago.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2023
• The couple, who had bought the house in 2003, needed much more space and storage in general.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• The couple took refuge in a nearby restaurant until the police arrived on the scene.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
• The couple were likely thrown into the ocean and died, police in Grenada said.
  — Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
• Dear Amy: My wife and I were friends with another couple for more than 40 years.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
• De Castro at dinner at the hotel bar on May 9 and charged the meal to the couple’s room by writing the names of the man and woman on the receipt.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2024
• There was a huge pink flag with the couple’s initials waving in the wind to greet guests, and a picturesque view of Martha’s Vineyard in the background.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2023
• Less than a year later, Cyrus’ rep announced the couple’s breakup in August 2019.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 1 Sep. 2023
• Officials in the state want couples to have at least three children.
  — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 29 May 2023
• She’s been open about her grief journey while raising the couple’s only child, a son named Elvis.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2023
• Keep in mind that the survivor will collect only the larger of a couple’s two checks; the smaller benefit goes away.
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024

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couple

2 of 3 verb

• It took an hour to couple the trailer to the truck.
• The wire is coupled to the terminal.
• The coils are loosely coupled.
• Here’s whom the men decided to couple up with: Will and Kyra.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2021
• Learning to flirt without coupling up might be part of the process.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• But not all couples were as lucky to leave the pods coupled up and content.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
• Jumping from coupling to coupling as if that’s the object of the game.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• It’s the brands that can couple that data with a loyal base of clientele that will be able to pull ahead.
  — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• Great, make sure and couple it with some GPS locations of signs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Cold air will couple with moisture in the high Rockies to support some of the season's first snowflakes.
  — Pedram Javaheri, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
• When the technology gear changes, the process will shift and people will need to couple with these changes.
  — Spiros Liolis, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• Berry says to be more open if you're not coupled up because the 123 could be telling you that your twin flame might soon be revealed.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 15 Feb. 2023
• The music mogul and legendary singer & actress coupled up during the mid 1970s.
  — Jacob Linden, Redbook, 28 July 2023
• On the way back, light is coupled into the ring and can exit from port 3, just like the reference signal from port 1.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2020
• Is this ghostly couple our guide to the proceedings to follow?
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• Bigger leaks can be solved with a gadget called a hose mender, which couples two ends of the hose back together.
  — Kate Morgan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• Hoping next week this gentle giant gets a Tall Girl with size 13 Nikes to couple up with.
  — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2021
• This leaves Phoebe Siegel to find another person to couple up with.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2022
• The climb was steep and the train needed a push from an extra locomotive, which coupled onto the rear.
  — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• But the dare, the invitation to couple with the man who is your brother, still retains the charge of provocation.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022
• That, coupled with the reality that there are so few salmon in the river, has put fishers on edge.
  — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2023
• Though there are new rules each season to keep the competition fresh for the islanders, the show starts with five pairs who are coupled up.
  — Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 30 Dec. 2023
• Every few days, the islanders must couple up or risk going home.
  — Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
• The Macintosh coupled them in an attractive case that looked good on desks at home.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
• Every few days, the Islanders must couple up — those who fail to find a partner risk being dumped from the island.
  — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2021
• Cinco and Will’s arrival on the first night spelled trouble for two men, as they were allowed to couple up with any woman at the end of Episode 2.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 14 July 2021
• Russia regards Whelan as a spy and was never going to couple him with Griner in a swap.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
• Uranus, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury have also coupled up beneath the red planet.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2023
• In contrast, sonar is great for sensing in wet environments, but the signal can lose efficiency if the system is not coupled well enough to the ice.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2024
• Most of that was an unintended function of coupling ’90s topics with era-appropriate sonics.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024

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couple

3 of 3 adjective

• The last people off the dance floor won't be couple no.
  — Seventeen, 16 May 2017
• Each time, the couple dozen people on board each one step off and take a look around.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2023
• Swift is truly a friend to both halves of the Zigi super-couple.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 26 Sep. 2020
• There was just a couple dozen of very fancy people like us.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 17 July 2018
• Outside up front, there are a couple café tables with room to add more.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 10 Nov. 2022
• Normally each of the couple dozen small rooms are filled with pups waiting for a new home.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2020
• If that means disappearing for an hour, call it couple time and leave shame at the door.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2020
• The contempt trial marked the latest turn in the ex-couple’s turbulent split.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2021
• Amid the exquisiteness are just a couple minor missteps.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
• Fauquier and counties near or west are seeing the most in our area, with a couple thousand customers out.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• The couple hand-selects the bananas from retailers rather than buying them by the case.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2020
• These guys made one excellent album, then a few that had a couple nice tunes on them.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2022
• Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas took couple goals to the next level this weekend.
  — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Apr. 2021
• The couple high-fived one another after nailing the move.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
• There are going to be a couple things that take people off guard and really shock folks.
  — Adrienne Green, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2017
• Hoover self-published her first novel, Slammed, in 2012, and has since reliably churned out a couple new books a year.
  — Time, 12 Oct. 2022
• Do the bridal couple show signs of distance as well as intimacy?
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• Riley is one of a couple dozen San Diegans to have seized Junior World titles.
  — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2017
• BayHaven Restaurant Group is planning to open a couple new places in the next two or three years and many more restaurants beyond that.
  — Andy Wang, Robb Report, 2 June 2021
• Lenore has a couple different black cocktail rings—some were vintage and some were Neil Lane as well.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 12 Oct. 2020
• James, who shouted Eminem on social media, has one of just a couple dozen pairs.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Ryan has been able to play a couple different positions for us and has had no issues.
  — Herbie Teope, NOLA.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• Weatherly said the couple dozen units operated in Milwaukee are used as a test site close to the founders.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2018
• Each month, the Michigan Strategic Fund awards tax breaks to another couple dozen projects aimed at spurring business growth.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2019
• Lemus fired just high and Edgar Perez shot just wide on a couple prime scoring opportunities in the second half for the Vikings, who were coming off a 12-1 record in the spring.
  — Steve Millar, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• At any given time, the staff there is helping to raise by hand a couple dozen different animals.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• Somehow Lorca is able to take control of the entire ship, which is the size of a city, with just a couple dozen people, and that somehow equates to the collapse of the entire Empire.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 Jan. 2018
• The two are definitely couple goals, thanks in large part to their candid honesty about their relationship—the high and the low points, thank you very much.
  — Melissa Minton, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2017
• Urías, who's been making starts at third base against left-handed pitching, shook off a couple high throws to Hiura at first base earlier in the game.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2021
• Over the years, their children have started families of their own, giving the couple 14 grandchildren.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024