How To Use Couch In A Sentence

I'm still feeling a bit cranially sprained, mind you, but the cat seems perfectly happy to be spending a snow day on the couch with me, watching S3 of Mission: Impossible. The Snowpocalypse Continues
If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
Inside, Ms. Savage accented the home's 16-foot coved ceilings—original from 1926—and espresso-colored floors with earth-toned couches and classic pieces, using a long wooden bench as a living room coffee table. A Gossip Girl's Main Stage
Thence in comparison to pricey couches, hammocks are more user-friendly.
In one, a rear view, Tritia was bent over the back of a couch, offering to the camera a perfect shot of her white untanned ass. Baby Games

The Confucius Business School set up at various countries shall recruit students locally, and the recruited local business students will be given face-to-face couching by teachers sent over.
I reckon we're in danger of raising a whole generation of undiscriminating couch potatoes afflicted by TV-induced Attention Deficit Disorder.
Not all the speakers have couched their sentiments in complimentary language, indeed, it is a fact which we citizens of the Empire would be foolish to ignore that important sections of opinion among our American friends and elsewhere are rather suspicious of the British Empire. The Empire In These Days
But when it comes time to make that decision, almost 40 per cent of us fail to remove our posteriors from the couch and forfeit our voice in the nation's affairs.
Ergot also had a history of medical use—as a labor-inducing drug that, according to one nineteenth-century physician, “expedites lingering parturition and saves to the accoucheur a considerable portion of time.” MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
We also decided to get our tattered, old couch reupholstered, and I doubled our annual contribution to a local conservation group.
French glossary: coucher = to lie down matelas = mattress matelot = sailor vouloir = to want Mexican Humor..A New Forum?
Max gave him a big fake smile, which quickly faded as he sunk into the couch.
The offer was couched in legal jargon.
He saw Oprah sitting on her couch, dressed in brown and talking to the audience about a book called Age and Time.
On this occasion, Campobasso gave his opinion, couched in the apologue of the Traveller, the Adder, and the Fox; and reminded the Duke of the advice which Reynard gave to the man, that he should crush his mortal enemy, now that chance had placed his fate at his disposal. Quentin Durward
There are some fine tapas dishes and a wide choice of tasty Cuban rums and we recommend you lie back on antique couches and chairs and sample the menu.
We are settled in our couch potato ways. Times, Sunday Times
Furniture includes chairs and couches upholstered in amber, magenta, and burgundy.
Nations. yep, it's pretty quaint stuff, couched in terms of newness and normalcy, of foreigness and familiarity. it describes the music as modern and "swingy" and yet timeless, as being of universal appeal - they belong to everyone - and yet "from a single nationality." i wonder whether the universalist rhetoric was meant to appeal to non-jews or simply to jews ambivalent about their jewishness? or am i simply being naive about midcentury, metropolitan jewishness? it is interesting to me also that, apparently, zionist discourse had not yet divorced the term palestinian from any association with jewish heritage. Wayneandwax.com
Spread over two floors with a stairwell between, gorgeous girls in Prada, Dolce and Versace lie back on couches sipping negronis, watching dashing men in Armani smoke imported cigars over iced bourbon.
We worked very hard, but there wasn't what I call couch time or motivational time. Fore, right!
Couches, armchairs and tables were scattered about the place.
she lay on the couch, her body uncomfortably twisted
I've bought some squashy pillows for the couch.
There was couches, sofas, chairs, and tables everywhere.
Tracy lit a fire and poured two glasses of wine and brought them over to Ryan on the couch.
I reminisce for a fleeting moment about breezy Saturday nights, black couches and a brawny shoulder
The couch was dark green suede and definitely cozier than the plaid throw covering the couch that would be acting as a bed in his new place.
Her sister lies sleeping on the couch, her quiet snores almost inaudible.
Foam-filled couches are a serious fire hazard.
R. stretched out on the couch while G. and I unloaded the van but she could hardly wait to get into one of the rocking chairs on the front porch where we ate lunch and began the process of decompressing from our long journey.
Any explanation for the use of the past participle (assis, couche (accent)) rather than the tu form of the imperitive? Fifille - French Word-A-Day
The three of them were seated on the same couch that had faced the large recliner.
Try pin-tucking fabric, or couching down decorative threads, embroider by hand or by machine on the fronts, or even try beading an evening vest.
Korina swallowed a mouthful of food and looked over at Cat as she sat down on the couch next to Matthew.
His eye fell on the coffee table before his couch, and puzzledly, he picked up the small piece of paper on it.
They were sitting side by side on her couch watching reruns of an old show.
He sat down beside her, holding her hand as she lay down on the couch, already looking sleepy, yet ready to go back home.
She plumped herself on the couch, looking and sounding exhausted.
Some plans have a self-directed brokerage account option, which allows investors to purchase the assets for a couch potato portfolio, but the fees can make this option expensive and not worthwhile.
The new sentencing guidelines are couched in 624 pages of legalese.
World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst has urged youngsters to get off the couch and start taking part in competitive sport.
As we reached the top floor the elevator doors slid open and, after announcing ourselves, we were ushered into a sprawling office that included the couch on which Quiller-Couch napped after lunch each day. Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids
The couch was held up by cast bronze human figures riding unicycles.
Csif people would often go over the lab and sit on the couch drinking coffee and just yak about film stuff.
I will read to him, do crafts, play cars, pretend the couch is a ship and we are pirates – but I will not play trains. Mom At Work | Her Bad Mother
After school I went home with a sulk, Kirara was relaxed at the couch watching TV while eating rice crackers.
The carrying off of the spear and the cruse was a couch of almost humour, and it, with the ironical taunt flung across the valley to Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
He found he could get patients to talk just by putting them in a relaxing position (the couch) and encouraging them to say whatever came into their heads (free association).
Bichon: "I love the couch dress and quality time with my mumsy and my daddy. Is that your hand in my pocket?
We sprung for expensive couchette seats, and ended up with our own little cabin on the boat.
To couch several smaller threads, twist them together before they enter the scroll.
It will recommend that schools introduce new exercise classes such as boxercise, trampolining, aerobics and yoga to lure teenagers off the couch.
Many of these claims for interactivity are couched in terms that cast the individual as a consumer rather than a citizen.
Her sister, Rachel, sat on the couch, her hands clasped tightly together.
He headed straight for his kettle and teapot, not even pausing as he pulled off his hat and mask and tossed them on the couch.
About half past eight I was lounging on the couch, channel-surfing when my doorbell rang.
Tanis set her trunk near the couch and let out a small yip at the sudden sharp pain to his lower back.
Norm and Benjy were on the couch watching television.
“If you ask people, many will just tell you ‘go ask that guy — I think he was born when I was’,” explains Sami, who sits on the TV couch huddled against the cold in his patu -- a thick blanketlike shawl that men wrap over their heads and shoulders. Why Afghans Don't Know Their Ages
There's also a luxurious bathroom, cosy bedroom with double bed and a pullout memory foam mattress under the couch. The Sun
He stripped off his sweater and threw it onto the couch.
Lucas couchant, and became Lucas rampant, fanged and langued gules. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
Rachel is napping on her couch in the middle of her run-down apartment.
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Then I vegged out on the couch, and watched ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ for like the fourth time in a month.
Look for an ottoman with built-in storage or a daybed that can work as a couch.
When I conjure in my mind the objections that people I know make to Christianity, I am reminded of my friend on the couch, enervated by life's manifold demands.
Wes was still asleep on the couch; he was snoring lightly and restlessly.
I sighed and searched for the cordless, found it on the couch in the living room, then dialed Sed's number.
It was the comfiest suede couch with the best view of the river, so of course it belonged to the most admired couple in the school. Pure Sin
The new centre-right government's radical objectives are often couched in moderate terms.
Hospitals expect a family member or friend to stay in the room with you, and a couch or cot is provided. Healthy living in Mexico: insurance, health care and medical
We had a small side room with a slouchy couch and a television set.
Her dad looks up from his bag of chips on the couch for a moment, then averts his eyes immediately back to the television where a basketball game rages at a tied score.
They enter his office to be faced with a comfortable leather sofa and an examination couch, complete with stirrups.
He sat on the couch and opened the package with the reel in it.
From the villa rustica known as the Villa Carmiano are three frescoed walls from the triclinium, the sitting room, in which three couches in a U shape typically faced a view, in the case of Stabiae, of the Bay of Naples.
The fantasy of the undecorated house is Tuesday morning as it is actually lived, not as we would like other people to imagine it; it is the idea of energy, of chaos, of motion, of mess well, mess within very circumscribed and aesthetically pleasing limits: children lying in a pile of books, artfully unmade beds, one piece of clothing strewn across a couch. The Rise of the Personal
Most nights we sat together on the couch.
Slowly, he withdrew five photograph frames and gazed into them while lying down on the couch on his back.
A man and woman in punk gear lay asleep in each other's arms on the couch in the hall.
A college friend has set me up on her couch in Kew Gardens, Queens. Dispatch from NYC: Drawn and Quartered | clusterflock
Confused, I examined the garland behind the couch—and caught Jeremy red-handed.
Sleeping on overnight trains is common (though couchettes cost extra).
The plan is couched in the language of humanitarianism and democracy.
As Levi points out, someone who is a casual or even first-time visitor might not recognize the dishonesty of a troll like dochunt, since he couches his trollery in puffed-up pseudo-academic arrogance. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 8, 2010
He went into the living room, where Lisa was curled up on a couch, an open book in her lap. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
IG tells in his book of how, attending a Fund or Bank meeting in Washington, he found Morarji seated on a couch and bumping his head gently against the adjacent wall.
German scientific forestry was couched in a rhetoric of development and modernization.
They were sitting close together on the couch.
After dinner Jesse and Danny parked themselves on the couch in the family living room.
Why would the big cat attack the person who raised him from cubhood, the person who once snuggled with him on the couch?
Big throw pillows in Persian patterns covered an old beige couch. DEAD LINES
If I forget this and bonk my head on the window and fall behind the couch in my attempt, I will not get up and do the same thing again.
His criticism was couched in very tactful language.
My laziness then encumbers me and I suddenly get back to simply vegging out on the couch with a big bowl of junk food and a good book.
I stood up carefully, and from the new position I could see that at some point during the night Sillabub and I had found a couch, which would explain the terrible crick in my neck.
She then sat on the couch next to me and told me to rest my head in her lap. The Sun
I plopped onto the couch and that wretched dog hopped up next to me and began to bark.
There are few things better in life than reclining on the couch. The Sun
They were both sitting on the couch, looking at magazines.
His body shook with a memory he had tried to forget, but the woman lying helpless on his couch was bringing it all back to him.
I am a country surgeon, and of course an accoucheur. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
Parents, music lovers and the curious wander in and find a seat amongst a mishmash of antique chairs, an old couch and anything else that remotely resembles a place to rest.
The most commonly illustrated combinations of sofa and bed in the nineteenth century were the bed lounge, the bed couch, and the davenport sofa bed.
Even modern mothers and their teenage daughters would cozy up on the couch to watch the show together, often opening up dialogues to sexual topics not previously discussed.
How many times had they crammed for exams on the soft, overstuffed couch?
My father becomes a couch potato during football season.
After lunch he reposed on the couch.
Red couches - almost unseen amidst the browns, beiges, mossy greens and taupes of the late '90s - are making their way into living rooms across the U.S.
He sat down on a cushy chair near the couch I was propped up on, my shoes on the concrete floor.
I reminisce for a fleeting moment about breezy Saturday nights, meaningful movies, black cozy couches and the comfort of a brawny shoulder to rest on.
Guidelines that disseminate new information and provide advice are welcome, but they should not be couched so rigidly as to present clinicians who practise in the current defensive culture with insoluble dilemmas.
He's turned into a real couch potato since he subscribed to the sports channel.
Couch secretly prefers the spirit of football, a game in which a community shield can be both a match and method of riot control. Times, Sunday Times
Even a very rich and hearty luncheon, which her maid had provided, was gormandized rather than enjoyed, so tempting did her couch look to the worn-out damsel. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter
Next she flung herself on the couch in the cyma-recta curve which so became her, and with her arm over her brow looked towards the door. The Mayor of Casterbridge
My father is fine art photographer Sy Kattelson and in addition to many of his photo's we have work by Lewis Hine, (over the lounge), Tanya Marcuse, (the large tree over the couch) , and others.
The work is a violent political satire, largely couched in crude physiological terms, many of them scatological.
Instead, the company plans to use a neutral image of a model in a tweed frock coat reclining on a couch. Times, Sunday Times
Radiant Ashley Olsen lounged calmly on a couch, Foxy Brown spilled out of her bandeau top, SNL's Kenan Thompson took up a banquette, and Naomi Campbell drifted across the dance floor.
During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther broadened the term beyond ministry to include work that serves others, but still couched it in a religious framework. Chris Stedman: Do Only Religious People Have A 'Calling'?
A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed Ulysses
The fully loaded walk through five cars to the couchettes was amazing.
She then sat on the couch next to me and told me to rest my head in her lap. The Sun
There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
Jessica sat on the couch in her own room, looking through the book and making notes in her notebook.
Finally, a student named Ben was selling a sectional couch in the classifieds section.
...'couching' & the end of summer might be a better, more appropriate title for some of us... So What Now? Coaching and the End of Summer
The OED says "couch potato" originated as American slang, meaning "a pennon who spends leisure –time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes" .
If you do not well, sin is couching at the door.
When the party began to simmer down, Melanie started to have a headache so she walked into the billiards room to sit on one of the un-occupied leather couches.
So park your Fiat 500 in the driveway of your Mid-Century modern rancher, doff your bouclé suit and prim pumps, and settle back in your Eames couch: In one sense, 'Mad Men' is always on these days. Fashion Highlights From 2011
No hint of repressed sexuality is undelivered from the analyst's couch of his interpretation.
Do we really want him on our couch with his feet up on our coffee table?
Notice how frequently they couch immoral concepts in language using the word ‘moral’?
The slow-moving two-toed sloths, tiny dwarf mongoose, South American acouchi and African rock hyrax are other unique features of the daytime exhibits.
Lie down on the couch if you're feeling ill.
“If you ask people, many will just tell you ‘go ask that guy — I think he was born when I was’,” explains Sami, who sits on the TV couch huddled against the cold in his patu -- a thick blanketlike shawl that men wrap over their heads and shoulders. Why Afghans Don't Know Their Ages
She collapsed on the couch, and picked the phone receiver up again.
The priest's daughter took down the mandore, drew near the couch on which Poëri was stretched, leaned the head of the lute against the wooden bed-head hollowed out in the shape of a half-moon, stretched her arm to the end of the handle of the instrument, the body of which was pressed against her beating heart, let her hand flutter along the strings, and struck a few chords. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt
And in no other job will I catch crabs from innocently sitting in the staff lounge on an extremely festy couch… mmm.
The instant snack was once the food of choice for students and couch potatoes. The Sun
I am a huge snacker too, I have to try really hard not to just sit on the couch eating like a zombie all day and night haha. SNACK ATTACK!
Overstuffed pink chairs and a couch rested in one corner, a small kitchenette with a washtub and icebox in another.
At last we will be providing for the needs of children in the 21st century to ensure that they do not become couch potatoes.
But, while the people who shop at Walmart and Target make no bones about their purchases: Oprah books, self-help, Grisham, Dan Brown, Danielle Steel, Koontz, etc. (so those stores only stock those titles), those who shop at Indigo want to feel as though they’re of a certain “lifestyle” (so the store puts in couches and offers lattes) and colours the walls whatever yuppy ochre is current. Movement mounting against Reisman receiving honorary degree
What he really needs is a lot of time on a psychiatrist's couch.
The film's opening scene finds her on her psychologist's couch, tonelessly reciting her recipe for braised pigeon in thyme sauce with truffles.
The walls were still brick, but she had brought in an overstuffed couch and glass coffee table for furniture and placed plants and a very nice book case in the corner.
It was forcefully exported with a tetratonic continental health partnerships richmond virginia and all harness and utensils, a denying clue with a stereotactic couch, everyone chair and tension tv and obesity of land space to council out at the double - albeit stilly directed - mail of the churidars and sandal below. Wii-volution
I situated myself down on the arm of the couch, now fully dressed as I laced my sneakers up.
He looked in the direction next to the couch or divan that he was lying on, and saw a woman, sitting there next to him.
The clean-shaven gentleman on the couch, with the excellent posture, the pastel golf shirt, and that strangely chaste yet fiery look in his eye?
Just a few hundred thousand couch potato members of the sports channel pay-per-view community, watching because there wasn't any football yet, or darts or speedway or boxing, getting value for their subscriptions, fat on the sofa in last year's Premier League football jersey, thick as you like, tweeting Bumble to say how much they fancied Lily Allen and googling "lbw" to find out why the man in the motorbike helmet had to go home when the ball only hit him on the leg. Top stories from Times Online
At the foote of euery mannes tree lieth a dogge, and a horse well taughte to couche flatte on the bealy, as lowe as can bee. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
To the left, she could see a parlor with a large fireplace, comfortable looking couches, a crotcheted rug, and a huge Christmas tree, decorated with lights and ornaments and tinsel. Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark Ebook Christmas Set
The students do their design work at the college in a large open room crammed with drafting desks, layout tables, computer workstations, and, usually, an eclectic array of cast-off couches and easy chairs.
No more nonstop basketball for couch potato Congressional staff members.
On the other hand, some well-known canine couch potatoes include the Bulldog, Basset Hound, Chow Chow, Rottweiler and Saint Bernard.
I wore my black sweatpants and a two sizes too big red t-shirt and just sat back on our couch.
He slept on the couch.
A mildewed couch sagged in the center of the floor. Rogue Oracle
His mother sank back down onto the couch and plucked at the seat.
Of course superstition is at the bottom of this barbarity; the same which a generation ago made the silly accoucheur refuse to give ether because of the divine (?) saying “In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He hung up the phone and pulled a chair from the kitchen over to the couch and sat down.
The place was bare of furniture except for the couch.
One of them sat on my couch the other day hooked up to tubes and suctions and a giant deconstructed bra, looking like some fetish ad, or a footnote from the Josef Mengele years. The Case Against Breast-Feeding
The letter was deliberately couched in very vague terms.
It is perhaps not surprising that authors such as those cited above should couch their explanations largely in terms of pharmacological developments.
Jenna shot a doubtful glance at the lumpy, brown couch in the corner of the room.
This is a really fun bar with comfy couches and soft cushy tables.
The Giants, meanwhile, are cobwebbing on the couch, fishing for the remote, making school lunches for the kids, doing the yard work — or at least talking to the personal chef about finding the remote, making the school lunches and doing the yard work. A Couple of Giants Green With Envy
Joseph could make out a couch and table on the far wall, but the couch was covered with heaps of clothes, newspapers, and assorted gimcracks. Missionaries
She scrambled into her clothing and ran out to the couch.
She fell upon her knees, her head upon her couch her hands clasped upon her head, overcome by anxiety and terror; and gipsy, idolatress, and pagan as she was, began with sobs and tremblings to ask mercy of the God of the Christians, and pray to Our Lady, her hostess. I. The Little Shoe. Book XI
Henny and I sit on one of the two slip-covered red couches - the only furniture in the living room except for two dining tables.
Paired with the kinds of things you find at your typical nightspots—i.e. liquor, bottle service, plush couches and, no doubt, plenty of loud music—there will be things you don't usually find, i.e. bocce ball, shuffleboard and miniature golf. Mulligans Over the Village
Or, to couch it in different terms, between a predominately male model of politics; and a more feminine one. Times, Sunday Times
Beatrice was lying alone in the middle of an underlit room, on a narrow couch.
But the street culture of respect dangerously chimes with that of the politicians: both are couched in terms of threat, control and fear.
I always also take people seriously, though I do suggest to the few intemperate and angry emailers that I could respond more usefully if they couched their comments less aggressively.
Why am I sure the Pope's reply will be couched in some stupid definition of "exacerbate" along the lines of "encourage promiscuous behaviour"? News from the House of Sticks -
As I lay on the couch that evening, I felt a touch on my forehead and a kiss on my cheek.
This is a smart move, because otherwise the whole thing would be so creaky and old-fashioned that only the most determined Christie fan cum couch potato would watch it.
If you want to sit on the couch in an old T-shirt and shorts while munching on Doritos, no one will give you any flack for doing so.
The camp itself was essentially a series of huge tents decorated with an eye toward sumptuousness—overstuffed couches, a dinner table made from beached wood, a makeshift bar area—all atop raised, rich hardwood flooring. In the Time of Bobby Cox
The loft was strewn with clothes; shirts were draped over the couch and loveseat while pants were hung with hangers on the kitchen table seats.
I apologize if my statements about "literalism" and "inerrancy" are not couched in the language of friendly dialogue that I usually strive for. Archive 2008-12-01
It may not seem like it, but even the laziest of couch potatoes is a human dynamo.
I was unsteady on my feet as I made my way towards the ragged red couch.
At worst a vague objective should be couched in very precise terms.
I pulled a chair over and sat down, propping my feet up on the couch, cataloguing my current state.
Beds, couches and other furniture became higher with changes in sitting posture, since people began to sit on chairs with their legs hanging down.
With the arm resting on the couch the force needed to accelerate the arm is coming from the material of the couch.
She was perched on the edge of the couch, using the remote control to flick absently through the television channels. CODE BREAKER
He was sitting on the couch, white-faced, one sea-boot in his hands, and I could have sworn his hands were shaking. CHAPTER XXXVIII
“He said: ‘When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints; Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.’” Sleepless

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