How to Use couple in a Sentence

couple

1 of 3 noun
Definition of couplenext
Synonyms for couplenext
  • 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
  • The couple returned in 2021 — in time to join last year’s protests against judicial overhaul.
    — Itay Stern, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 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
  • The twist was later repeated with just one ex-couple each on both season 8 and season 9.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The Normals get together, and Toby, in some of the first good drama of the entire season, chooses to couple up with Abi.
    — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 24 July 2021
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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 | Mwake@al.com, 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
  • On the bright side, quarterback Brandon Peters had a couple nice runs and finished with seven carries for 75 yards.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2020

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