couple

[ˈkʌpl]

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.

Use 'couple' in a sentence:

1. Is there any chance of you swinging us a couple of tickets?
2. There are a couple more files to read first.
3. There's a couple of dresses to be pressed.
4. The couple went to great pains to keep their plans secret.
5. Do you need any more glasses? I've got a couple I can lend you.
6. Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard.
7. The picture shows the couple together on their yacht.
8. The couple was/were married in 1976.
9. The two train cars had been coupled together.
10. They met a couple of times but they didn't really connect.
11. The last couple of years have been difficult.
12. As a couple they are not very well matched.
13. The couple might as well have been strangers.
14. I've got a couple that don't look too bad.
15. It is believed that the couple have left the country.
16. He dashed off a couple of novels.
17. The couple spent thousands renovating the house.
18. I'll be with you in a minute. There are a couple of things I have to do first.
19. We wanted to buy the chairs but another couple were bidding against us.
20. I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days.
21. (North Amercian English)It's only a couple blocks away.
22. The couple have no children.
23. He gave a couple of loud rings on the doorbell.
24. The company has bankrolled a couple of local movies.
25. The couple quickly became a fixture in society.
26. The company employs no more than a couple of dozen people.
27. Overproduction, coupled with falling sales, has led to huge losses for the company.
28. We can do it in the next couple of weeks.
29. They are a couple in the real world as well as in the movie.
30. CDTV uses a CD-ROM system that is coupled to a powerful computer.
31. I saw a couple of men get out.
32. Couples took the floor for the last dance of the evening.
33. They were just like any other young couple.
34. It's only a couple blocks away.
35. They were an extremely happy couple, ideally suited.
36. I've seen her a couple of times before.
37. The couple had been dating for almost three years.
38. The builder has a couple of jobs on at the moment.
39. Outwardly, the couple seemed perfectly happy.
40. A media circus surrounded the royal couple wherever they went.
41. Pamela is nobody's fool ; she'll master her new job in a couple of days.
42. A couple of messages had mysteriously disappeared.
43. The couple trudged up the dark mountainside.
44. She already has a couple of good wins under her belt.
45. The couple plan to wed next summer.
46. Our beach house is just a couple of miles from the ocean.
47. I used to smoke, but I gave up a couple of years ago.
48. She managed to cling on to life for another couple of years.
49. A couple of minutes.
50. We went there a couple of years ago.
51. The couple moved outside her field of vision.
52. They were an odd-looking couple.
53. Its engine is coupled to a semiautomatic gearbox.
54. The couple met at a party.
55. There was an elderly couple on the terrace.
56. The various systems are coupled together in complex arrays.
57. She sold me a couple of live lobsters.
58. The couple share a love of gourmet cooking.
59. The two of them made a handsome couple.
60. Couples walked hand in hand along the front.
61. They made a mismatched couple.
62. We soon became friendly with the couple next door.
63. The couple made an unsuccessful attempt at a compromise.
64. They exchanged banalities for a couple of minutes.
65. Several couples were on the dance floor.