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How to use couple in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, determiner

Couple means two of the same kind connected or considered together. Example: “A couple of police officers appeared at the door.”

Examples of couple by meaning

nounTwo of the same kind connected or considered together.

  • A couple of police officers appeared at the door.

nounTwo partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.

  • Having a beloved couple (Jim and Pam, Cory and Topanga) exchange vows was once a foolproof way to juice TV ratings.2026 May 27, Judy Berman, “When Did On-Screen Weddings Get So Bleak?”, in TIME, archived from the original on 28 May 2026

nounA small number.

  • But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

adjectiveTwo or (a) small number of.

  • Since we were now living so close, at least those couple hours of talking together helped boost our spirits.2005, Elaine Bonzelaar, Those First Two Years, page 47
  • Apparently, Ann in particular liked these couple pages of the character thing.2006, Eric Nolen-Weathington, George A. Khoury, Arthur Adams, Modern Masters: Arthur Adams, volume six, page 22

determinerTwo or a few, a small number of.

  • A couple fewer people show up every week.
  • I'll be there in a couple minutes.
  • About couple months we lived upstairs.1922, “Lewis J. Bennett et al vs. Sebastien L. Petrino”, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division - Fourth Department

verbTo join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).

  • Now the conductor will couple the train cars.
  • I've coupled our system to theirs.
  • The familiarly pleasant smell of fried burgers couples with the piquant scent of fishsauce out here among the tables where diners feed like sharks from paper-lined baskets heaped with fries.2004, Mari Messer, “Invasion of the Red Tide: Death as Prelude”, in Shore Lines: Reflections Beside the Wide Water, York Beach, Me.: Conari...

verbTo join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

  • On their wedding night they coupled nine times.1987, Alan Norman Bold, Robert Giddings, Who was really who in fiction, Longman

More sentences with couple

  • We still have a couple hours left to do in the yard.From the entry hour
  • You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.From the entry spring
  • They met a couple of years ago, but have been dating for about five months.From the entry date
  • I tried a mustache a couple years ago, but it didn't take.From the entry take
  • The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.From the entry plant
  • I have a couple of updates to install on your laptop.From the entry update
  • I'm going to soak in the bath for a couple of hours.From the entry soak
  • The police have a couple of leads they will follow to solve the case.From the entry lead
  • Joe puffed on his pipe and blew a couple of smoke rings.From the entry blow
  • He was given to taking a couple of glasses of port at his club.From the entry given
  • I decided to let the farmhouse to a couple while I was working abroad.From the entry let
  • The building of the bridge will be completed in a couple of weeks.From the entry building
  • The cinema on Ninth Avenue is showing a couple family movies.From the entry show
  • We gave him a couple shocks, but the patient passed away anywway.From the entry shock
  • Switches only happen once every couple weeks for us, but they're quite sudden when they happen.From the entry switch
  • Let's see if we can shanghai a room for a couple of hours.From the entry shanghai
  • We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.From the entry salad
  • I knocked off a couple of quick sketches before the design meeting.From the entry knock off
  • My computer keeps glitching; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.From the entry glitch
  • Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight.From the entry tape
  • That vase isn't exactly central. Could you move it over a couple of inches?From the entry over
  • We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening.From the entry toast
  • James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.From the entry bottom
  • He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.From the entry fix
  • I noticed a couple of days ago how quickly the battery depletes.From the entry deplete
  • I lured the cat into her carrier by throwing a couple of treats in there.From the entry treat
  • It is a fortunate sign if the sun shines on a newly wedded couple.From the entry fortunate
  • To burn calories, a thirty-minute jog is equivalent to a couple of hamburgers.From the entry equivalent

Meaning of couple

  1. noun Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
  2. noun Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
  3. noun A small number.

Full definition of couple

Questions about couple in a sentence

How do you use couple in a sentence?
Couple is used as a noun, adjective and determiner. For example: “A couple of police officers appeared at the door.”
What is a short sentence with couple?
“About couple months we lived upstairs.”
What does couple mean?
Couple means two of the same kind connected or considered together.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: couple (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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