Sentences with couple
cou·ple
C c - Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard. [+ of]
- ...a couple weeks before the election.
- Seventeen couples participated in the survey.
- A Toorak couple are standing trial over allegations that they sold four forged paintings.
- I've got a couple that don't look too bad.
- The couple have no children.
- ...as the four couples began the opening dance.
- ...a problem that is coupled with lower demand for the machines themselves. [be VERB-ed + with]
- Its engine is coupled to a semiautomatic gearbox. [be VERB-ed + to]
- An engaged couple
- Twenty and a half couple
- Give him a couple
- To couple railway carriages
- He couples studying with teaching
- History is coupled with sociology
- A couple cups of coffee
- The jaws of a spanner introduce a couple acting on the nut to rotate it.If two equal and opposite forces act so that their lines of action are a distance apart, the result is a pure turning effort known as a couple.A couple consists of two parallel forces acting at different points on a body, often making it rotate.
- Now the conductor will couple the train cars. I've coupled our system to theirs.
- They make a handsome couple.
- 25 hounds or 12½ couple.
- A dinner party, whether for a couple of old friends or eight new acquaintances, takes nearly the same amount of effort.