How to Use a couple in a Sentence

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  • Because go to spring training, go to the first month of the year, go to a couple of months in.
    — Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
  • Who are a couple of your favorite poets who have inspired you?
    — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
  • Another popped up to the west, and then a couple of more displays to the east.
    — Sam McDowell July 3, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026
  • Add a couple of the brand’s Low chairs to create a full conversation set.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 3 July 2026
  • Cruz took a couple of inches off her shoulder-length tresses, debuting a stylish bob.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 3 July 2026
  • Thibaut Courtois bailed out his defence when needed with a couple of reflex saves, too.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • There are a couple of biological facts that should be mentioned.
    — Jack G. Mell, Outdoor Life, 2 July 2026
  • The Clippers had a couple of decent playoff runs during his tenure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • Hancock suggests gradually moving them closer to a sunny window over a couple of weeks.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 July 2026
  • Yassine Bounou had to deal with a couple of spicy crosses and made one really good save to smother a Tani Oluwaseyi chance.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • This book about a couple in complex crisis creates a sense of political alienation that The Drama frankly dances around.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 July 2026
  • The change accompanied her newly short hair, which had debuted just a couple of years earlier in 1990.
    — Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 2 July 2026
  • The Slushi has been around for a couple years, and its popularity remains high (perhaps only to be outdone by the brand’s Creami).
    — Melissa Knific, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 July 2026
  • On a remote Maine logging road, a couple out for a day of fishing unexpectedly encountered a black bear chasing a frantic moose calf toward their truck.
    — Kate Brumback, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • The knockout stage started with a couple early upsets that saw Germany and the Netherlands go down, but the favorite won every other match in the final 32.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • Conjunctions involving Uranus tend to occur a couple of times each year, typically as one of the fast-moving, closer planets — such as Venus and Mars — appear next to it.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 July 2026
  • After a couple of disappointing individual time trials in recent Grand Tours, this was a marker of his condition, one that needed to go up a further step from his Giro win.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • In Key West, AccuWeather forecasts a high of 89, with a couple of morning showers followed by alternating clouds and sun in the afternoon.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • When Carolyn was in Paris with Narciso Rodriguez for her wedding dress fitting, someone snapped a couple of photos of them and said John and Carolyn broke up and this is her new man — two weeks before the wedding.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026
  • When tragedy struck, the couple was at their own cabin, while Brooke and Blair were staying with their grandparents Mike, 77, and Charlene Harber, 75, at a friend's place a couple of doors down.
    — Brian Brant, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
  • CTOs became CIOs, then CISOs were added, and some businesses added CAIOs a couple of years ago.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • As the second half began, Cape Verde continued to hold off the Argentinians and managed a couple of opportunities on the opposition’s goal, though nothing that overly troubled Emiliano Martínez.
    — Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • They were first spotted together as a couple in September 2023, when Swift attended a Kansas City Chiefs game alongside Kelce’s mom, Donna Kelce.
    — Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026
  • Going back in the archives, when Blue Origin shifted New Glenn from a three-stage vehicle to a two-stage vehicle, and made a couple other changes in mid-2018 time period, those were stated as being needed to accelerate the path to launch.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
  • The A-list Oscar winners met on the set of the Spanish film Jamon Jamon in 1992, but didn’t become a couple until reuniting for Vicky Cristina Barcelona in 2007.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026
  • Of course, the tennis-loving princess also took in a couple matches, watching Arthur Fery (who represents Great Britain) best Finland's Otto Virtanen on Court 18 before heading to Court 1.
    — Roberta Mercuri, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026

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