How to Use couple in a Sentence

couple

1 of 3 noun
  • Seventeen couples participated in the survey.
  • Add a couple of ice cubes to each bowl.
    — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 May 2026
  • Got a couple of walks and had some big hits.
    — Tim Crowley, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
  • At the time, the couple had been on edge.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Well, at least for a couple of hours.
    — Michael Silver, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • What are the best craft date night ideas for couples?
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2026
  • The child has been in the couple's care since her birth.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The couple has a son named Noah.
    — Scott Huver, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The news of their trip comes amid a busy start to the year for the couple.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The first couple of pizzas came out kind of rough.
    — CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The couple has since renewed their vows at home.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 13 Apr. 2026
  • This is a normal thing for couples to have to work through.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
  • It's become big news over the past couple of years.
    — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The couple also matched in white for their big day.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The couple was pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • Those next couple of weeks felt like a strange in-between.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Sources close to the couple said the breakup was far from sudden.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The couple did not attend last year.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 22 Feb. 2026
  • But in the past couple of years, things have been slowing down.
    — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • So far, every couple has split the prize.
    — Carolyn Burt, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
  • Yeah, my friends and I come here at least a couple times a month.
    — Jeremy Rellosa, Curbed, 4 June 2026
  • The couple has pleaded not guilty.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The couple is set to get married in April.
    — Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Add any names of dates of your choosing—this makes a great gift for couples, too.
    — Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The couple tied the knot in 2018.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe the Wayans should have waited a couple more years.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 June 2026
  • Sadly, Bill died a couple of weeks ago.
    — Julia Avant, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Tebow gave birth to the couple's first child in August.
    — Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Tibon ensured that the couple got to a safe zone.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The couple has been together for two and a half years.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026

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.
  • After this, the girls get to choose which boy to couple up with, once again via a door.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 3 June 2026
  • 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
  • Fans are wondering who will couple up this time around.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • This week, the girls got to choose who to couple up with, with one exception.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 8 June 2026
  • And in most cases, everyone must be coupled up to stay on the show.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 1 June 2026
  • Jumping from coupling to coupling as if that’s the object of the game.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Every few days, the islanders must couple up or risk going home.
    — Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The decisions are coupled, so the org structure should be, too.
    — Dani Nadel, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The duo went on to welcome four children and have now been coupled up for over 30 years.
    — Emma Banks, InStyle, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The stock market has become more strongly coupled to the Fed.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Is this ghostly couple our guide to the proceedings to follow?
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • Divorcees and the widowed may face a higher risk of death than those who are still coupled up, a new study reveals.
    — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
  • Each season, a group of singles stay in a villa with the goal of coupling up or risk banishment.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Only one lucky couple wins in the end, and contestants must couple up or run the risk of being dumped.
    — Emma Banks, InStyle, 3 June 2026
  • That, coupled with the reality that there are so few salmon in the river, has put fishers on edge.
    — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The Macintosh coupled them in an attractive case that looked good on desks at home.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Great, make sure and couple it with some GPS locations of signs.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • This leaves Phoebe Siegel to find another person to couple up with.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The show starts with 16 single contestants, where four are coupled up, and the rest are single.
    — Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Modern qubit circuits have more knobs and wires and things, but that’s just how to tune the levels, how to couple or entangle them.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • In the first three weeks of the experience, each couple splits, with each person coupling up with someone new.
    — Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026

couple

3 of 3 adjective
  • Kats grows a couple hundred acres of grass for Kats Sod Farm.
    — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
  • Shriver was married to Arnold Schwarzenegger for 25 years; the ex-couple share four children.
    — Emma Banks, InStyle, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The ex-couple share two daughters Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.
    — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The ex-couple share two daughters, Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Along with Leni, the ex-couple shares sons Henry, 20, Johan, 18, and daughter Lou, 16.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Flames from the Highway 82 wildfire came within a couple hundred yards of the nonprofit's buildings, forcing residents to evacuate.
    — Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 1 May 2026
  • Barbara Palvin and Dylan Sprouse have been couple goals for years, publicly adoring one another since meeting in 2018 and tying the knot five years later.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 18 May 2026
  • Additionally, if trains were to be stopped for more than 40 minutes, the railroad promised to de-couple trains at Grand to allow pedestrians and motor vehicles to move freely at Grand Avenue, the release said.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Once the 45-minute screening of the first episode was complete, a crescendo of applause came from the couple hundred viewers — including fans in 49ers jerseys — inside the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Meanwhile, in Aspen, Colorado, Mariah Carey opts for an extra stylish outfit, and Oliver Hudson and Erinn Bartlett have quality couple time.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
  • In addition to the couple dozen inflatable frog costumes—a group called the Portland Frog Brigade made the costumes popular last year during anti-ICE protests—the crowd featured people in green attire and green hats with bulbous eyes glued onto either side.
    — Toluse Olorunnipa, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The actor originated the role of Lucky, the troubled yet noble son of soap super-couple Luke Spender (Anthony Geary) and Laura Collins (Genie Francis), in 1993.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In the 90s, on All My Children, those pivots involved super-couple Tad and Dixie, magazine mogul Brooke English, business titan Adam Chandler, and Kelly Ripa and Mark Conseulos’ Hayley and Mateo.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • Back in 2020, 12 years into Wood's run as the daughter of super-couple Ridge Forrester and Taylor Hayes, and as the granddaughter of Bold and the Beautiful icon Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery), Wood embarked on one of the most harrowing storylines of her soap career.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Mar. 2026

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