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[ US /ˈkəpəɫ/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌpə‍l/ ]
VERB
  1. bring two objects, ideas, or people together
    The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project
    Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?
    This fact is coupled to the other one
  2. form a pair or pairs
    The two old friends paired off
  3. link together
    can we couple these proposals?
  4. engage in sexual intercourse
    Birds mate in the Spring
NOUN
  1. a small indefinite number
    he's coming for a couple of days
  2. a pair who associate with one another
    the engaged couple
    an inseparable twosome
    the engaged couple
  3. a pair of people who live together
    a married couple from Chicago
  4. two items of the same kind
  5. (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
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How To Use couple In A Sentence

  • I'm still in contact with her - we write a couple of times a year.
  • He would make an appointment with him to straighten out a couple of things.
  • Largely ignored by those same trekkers just a couple of hundred miles away on the equator lies Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak and arguably its most beautiful. Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya -- Is This the Most Beautiful Mountain in Africa?
  • The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
  • This, coupled with a lack of accounting controls, led the district into bankruptcy.
  • There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
  • He did his final piece of serious work on Tuesday morning, which was grand, and we have just kept him ticking over with a couple of canters.
  • He made comments about a couple of items, suggesting an appetizer that sounded unlikely but that, in his words,'went down a treat. FOLLY
  • The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
  • There are only a couple of days left in Graeme's Fantasy Book Review's Giveaway for one of three copies of Orson Scott Card's new release, Hidden Empire. Book Contest Links ... more than a few
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