Definition: 1. A pair of people who live together. 2. Two people or things. 3. A small number of people or things. 4. To join together two parts of something.
'couple' example sentence:
Is there any chance of you swinging us a couple of tickets?
There are a couple more files to read first.
There's a couple of dresses to be pressed.
The couple went to great pains to keep their plans secret.
Do you need any more glasses? I've got a couple I can lend you.
Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard.
The picture shows the couple together on their yacht.
The couple was/were married in 1976.
The two train cars had been coupled together.
They met a couple of times but they didn't really connect.
The last couple of years have been difficult.
As a couple they are not very well matched.
The couple might as well have been strangers.
I've got a couple that don't look too bad.
It is believed that the couple have left the country.
He dashed off a couple of novels.
The couple spent thousands renovating the house.
I'll be with you in a minute. There are a couple of things I have to do first.
We wanted to buy the chairs but another couple were bidding against us.
I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days.
(North Amercian English)It's only a couple blocks away.
The couple have no children.
He gave a couple of loud rings on the doorbell.
The company has bankrolled a couple of local movies.
The couple quickly became a fixture in society.
The company employs no more than a couple of dozen people.
Overproduction, coupled with falling sales, has led to huge losses for the company.
We can do it in the next couple of weeks.
They are a couple in the real world as well as in the movie.
CDTV uses a CD-ROM system that is coupled to a powerful computer.
I saw a couple of men get out.
Couples took the floor for the last dance of the evening.
They were just like any other young couple.
It's only a couple blocks away.
They were an extremely happy couple, ideally suited.
I've seen her a couple of times before.
The couple had been dating for almost three years.
The builder has a couple of jobs on at the moment.
Outwardly, the couple seemed perfectly happy.
A media circus surrounded the royal couple wherever they went.
Pamela is nobody's fool ; she'll master her new job in a couple of days.
A couple of messages had mysteriously disappeared.
The couple trudged up the dark mountainside.
She already has a couple of good wins under her belt.
The couple plan to wed next summer.
Our beach house is just a couple of miles from the ocean.
I used to smoke, but I gave up a couple of years ago.
She managed to cling on to life for another couple of years.
A couple of minutes.
We went there a couple of years ago.
The couple moved outside her field of vision.
They were an odd-looking couple.
Its engine is coupled to a semiautomatic gearbox.
The couple met at a party.
There was an elderly couple on the terrace.
The various systems are coupled together in complex arrays.
She sold me a couple of live lobsters.
The couple share a love of gourmet cooking.
The two of them made a handsome couple.
Couples walked hand in hand along the front.
They made a mismatched couple.
We soon became friendly with the couple next door.
The couple made an unsuccessful attempt at a compromise.
They exchanged banalities for a couple of minutes.