Couple Sentence Examples

I have a couple of polo shirts, but no light shirts.

Think about it a couple of minutes.

Finally he took down a couple of cups and poured them some coffee.

She pulled a couple of bowls out of the refrigerator.

Howie only came to New Hampshire a couple of times.

He leaned forward to flip a couple of pages.

In her bathroom, she wiped her face with a cold rag and took a couple of aspirin.

Her make-up, though she used very little, and a couple of bathing suits.

They should be doing an ultrasound in a couple of weeks.

Your new couple can always change that part if they want to.

The father and mother came into the room and gave the betrothed couple their blessing.

The wolf crouched, gnashed her teeth, and again rose and bounded forward, followed at the distance of a couple of feet by all the borzois, who did not get any closer to her.

There will be one from each of us to the other, and then a couple for the children from Santa.

The adjutant bent his head affirmatively and began to report, but the Emperor turned from him, took a couple of steps, stopped, came back, and called Berthier.

A couple of wing-backed chairs and sofa sank luxuriously into that thick wine carpet, but what caught her full attention was the wide curving staircase.

A couple of blocks away, I crawled into a horrible alley and began to cry out.

And though Prince Vasili, when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre's sake, hardly exchanged a couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him.

The wolf paused, turned its heavy forehead toward the dogs awkwardly, like a man suffering from the quinsy, and, still slightly swaying from side to side, gave a couple of leaps and with a swish of its tail disappeared into the skirt of the wood.

But he, poor man, disturbed only a couple of fins while I was catching a fair string, and he said it was his luck; but when we changed seats in the boat luck changed seats too.

Their box was pervaded by that atmosphere of an affianced couple which Natasha knew so well and liked so much.

They were the second couple to enter the circle.

Only a couple of times a year--when he knew from their valets that they had money in hand--he would turn up of a morning quite sober and with a deep bow would ask them to help him.

Sure, if he isn't saddled with a wife and a couple of kids.

We only have a couple of days until the autumn equinox.

Though it isn't so much a time as a state of mind, historians plot the Renaissance as moving around Europe for a couple of centuries.

I watched a couple that were fast locked in each other's embraces, in a little sunny valley amid the chips, now at noonday prepared to fight till the sun went down, or life went out.

He finished a couple of bottles of wine by himself.

I've picked up a couple of the metal symbols to add to my often-useful collection.

I had a couple of Sam Adams and a roast beef sandwich and arrived at the 30th Street station in Philadelphia just before four o'clock.

We could use the help of a couple of Original Beings.

We were not an exemplary couple," he added quickly, glancing at Natasha and noticing on her face curiosity as to how he would speak of his wife, "but her death shocked me terribly.

The article was a page five filler and hopefully will be forgotten in a couple of days.

Our location should be within a couple of hours at the most from a city; not in the country, per se, perhaps a small town.

Maybe a couple of hundred sold so far, all in California.

As I passed by the volunteer resident keeper's site, I saw an elderly couple in lounge chairs by a cold fire pit.

A couple of them were talking quietly, but she didn't hear them, instead unable to fathom that anyone would find her life worth protecting after her father hadn't.

The couple was hoping to get on the road ahead of one or more of the feuding Dawkinses, who might be moseying to the same destination.

What if the basic unit was a couple, a relationship, and what if that relationship had an identity?

Another friend tells her either member of the couple should be able to instantly remove the couple page when the relationship goes sour.

Here and there a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee or bumblebee without knowing why they do it.

Over the next couple of weeks, Cynthia made a few visits to town, once taking in a movie before she returned.

I passed the golf course, as green as an Irish post card and envied the couple strolling down the fairway.

Earlier, my wife had taken care of all the logistics of our travels while I locked up the house and called Jackson to tell him we would be out of town for a couple of days, retrieving Howie from California.

She was only a couple of paces away when she saw him, and to her too he was not the Nicholas she had known and always slightly feared.

At the end of the eighteenth century there were a couple of dozen men in Paris who began to talk about all men being free and equal.

Finally he sucked a couple times and then began searching again.

His mother pushed him off on us because he stayed up here in New Hampshire because he stayed here a couple of summers growing and she thought visiting might jar something loose.

Quinn worked on increasing the precision of time and location but it remained about the same; anything longer than a couple of days was a problem.

Eric was a seven year old who was abducted by a couple and held for ransom.

Finally, Howie reluctantly agreed to wait a couple of days and see how the situation played out.

A couple of vacationers picked her up walking along the beach near La Jolla.

A couple of thousand eyes have looked and gotten zilch.

Yeah, he's been pacing like a madman for a couple of hours.

If you are a farmer and work alone, you can only plant as much land as you can personally plow. You can do just a couple of thousand calories of work a day, consuming only the energy produced by the food you ate.

The pace of advancement in the field of robotics and nanotechnology roughly doubles every couple of years.

But much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much as they enjoyed their Rhine wine, saute, and ices, and however they avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave that the story about Sergey Kuzmich, the laughter, and the food were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was directed to-- Pierre and Helene.

Having gone a couple of miles along the Mozhaysk road, Pierre sat down by the roadside.

I haven't cooked more than a couple times since you came, and I'm afraid I might forget how.

Martha's aunt, Howie's mother, called and practically begged her to let him fly out for a couple of days.

I missed Betsy desperately and the idea of a couple of unexpected days with her was inviting, regardless of the reason.

Instead of dining out, we ordered a couple of pizzas.

Invest it well and it might get her a couple of years, the way prices keep going up.

But we have a couple of hours to wait.

Going three thousand miles away sounds like a good idea for you folks, even if it's only for a couple of days.

I'll take a couple of the meetings, and I tasked Jenn to start forwarding intelligence reports to me as well.

Molly wants to use the pool and frankly, I feel safer here, at least for a couple of days.

He pulled his phone free, realizing neither Toni nor Darian had checked in for a couple of hours.

His erratic moods had grown more volatile the past couple of days, and she knew better than to draw his attention.

I read a couple of books today.

This approach, however, has a couple of downsides.

A couple of centuries pass and improved harnesses come along.

I asked, confirming my lack of faith in the couple's long term relationship.

The vamp's head exploded with the first shot of his hand cannon, the bullet missing Bianca by a couple inches.

Just said he was coming back for me after he went away for a couple days, Bianca said with a shrug.

I'll see you in a couple of days.

They'd dated only for a couple of months, and she knew he wasn't right for her the first date.

I've seen you around a lot the past couple of days.

She'll have to remain here for a couple of days.

Suspecting Ving had made a couple of hurried phone calls, she let the call go to voicemail.

Frustration finally drove the couple to play the game the same way—contact no one, put your head in the sand, and hope everyone leaves you alone and forgets you exist.

Do you have a couple of paper bags?

The couple was honeymooning on a second marriage.

Here was this guy who married my mother; then she died, and I'm living with him—all in a couple of weeks.

All four Dawkinses joined the showing, which grew to include a widow from Texas, an Illinois couple with a sixyear-old and a handholding pair of seventy-something's with different last names.

David Dean, without a remote control, had difficulty with the TV and these two old fogies were out surfing the net like a couple of Silicon Valley youngsters.

A couple of weeks ago, I guess.

After leaving the church, amid handshakes and greetings from town friends, the couple was surprised to meet Pumpkin Green.

A young couple whose life dream was owning a Bird Song look-alike learned from Fred the principals would be absent for the day and offered to stick around playing temporary innkeepers.

After a sneaky backdoor departure and stop at the variety store for their purchases the couple was on their way.

The couple was newly married, Bird Song still under construction, and with Fred out of town, they stole two days on a camping honeymoon.

The exhausted couple stopped at a service station to fill the tires to their proper level.

It was strange how quickly the trials and fears of the day could be put on the back burner with a couple of swigs of amber liquid.

Nope. He tried to locate Josh what's-his-name a couple of times—there were notes—but then nothing.

One couple is sleeping apart, so I suppose Ginger and Joseph are already estranged.

While Bird Song waited, Mrs. Worthington, prompted by Fred's phone call, went to the campground to see if she might catch the couple left before they left.

The mock bones had been in storage for a couple of years—since the theater group went bust—in an unmarked trunk.

Alice was a geranium Cynthia had lovingly rescued from certain death by frost last September when the rest of the couple's first-year garden succumbed to the advancing seasons.

Cynthia had volunteered a couple of hours selling tickets for the Ouray Chamber's Jeep raffle.

It was only a couple of blocks to Duckett's Market, but he needed the Jeep to haul the groceries.

He followed her slowly, but a couple of horn toots coaxed him to move along.

Cynthia looked at the couple and shook her head.

The couple changed into shorts and boots, more satisfactory attire for their mountain drive with Jennifer Radisson.

It will be light for a couple more hours at least.

If he had an extra couple of hundred, I wish he'd put it toward his bill.

They even jailed him a couple of times, just for being rowdy.

He decided on kitchen sink soup—four night's leftovers stewed with a couple of cloves of garlic for a kicker.

Finally he said, "I told him to buy a couple of bottles of vodka and drink them himself."

It was ditched and the couple ducked into a mall.

I thought I might camp there—spend a couple of days just thinking and dreaming.

A couple more slugs of this stuff and I'll be fine.

She gave me a couple of hundred bucks and left me at this bus station in this little town in Illinois—I don't remember the name.

The couple strolled down Seventh Street to the bridge that crossed the Uncompahgre River as it spilled its way down from the mountains.

The couple before her stopped, and she brought her gaze back to them.

There were a couple of embarrassed agents over that, I'll tell you.

How did a couple get used to undressing in front of each other?

It was useless for her to fantasize about Xander, not when a couple dozen women who belonged on the covers of magazines were gathered around.

The couple T is necessarily accompanied by an equal and opposite couple acting on the frame, which couple endeavours to turn the frame in the opposite direction to that in which the axle rotates.

Metal-Work.Copper was wrought into pins, a couple of inches long, with loop heads, as early as the oldest prehistoric graves, before the use of weaving, and while pottery was scarcely developed.

At Esna the great temple was rebuilt and inscribed during a couple of centuries from Titus to Decius.

The newly married couple took a lease of Lansdowne House, which for several years was a salon for the Liberal party and a centre of hospitality for a much wider circle.

Moreover, that an infinitesimal translation is analogous to a couple and follows the same laws.

Hence any three-dimensional system can be reduced to a single force R acting in a certain line, together with a couple G in a plane perpendicular to the line.

A couple of hundred years later, we see the Romans doing crop rotation.

At present, they win hands down on "less expensive" and put in a decent showing on a couple more factors.

On the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, Princess Mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the morning greeting.

As for Martha's father, Patsy's comments as recorded on one statement she grudgingly gave the authorities listed him as "some john I did for a couple of bucks drug money."

We dated, if you could call it that, for a couple of months and then we went to Vegas and tied the knot.

Well, Jonathan will be home in a couple of hours.

As if it were no particular problem, he said they had lost vital signs in flight a couple times.

How did a happy couple get to this point?

They're stalking a couple of mortals.

Logan Myers had been dead for a couple of days at least.

He sat a couple of feet from her.

I was thinking about working a couple of them in this week.

Sand challenged her first couple of steps.

She settled on her belly a couple of feet away, glaring at him.

He opened the top drawer and withdrew a key chain with a couple of keys and a tag.

Rhyn, can you drop by the lake and bring a couple sets of clothes?

He had a shit ton of work to do the next couple of days.

There are a couple of things we must establish up front.

Only after she tossed back a couple of painkillers did she pick up the phone.

Humans don't come here unless they're dead, and even then, only a couple make it onto our supermax zoo.

He led her back the way she'd come and to a small house with a couple dozen fluffy sheep in a pen in back.

She joined them at the door with enough loose euro change for a couple of beers and dinner.

I've gotten so many…marks…the past couple of weeks.

His hair was tied back, his jaw and chin scruffy from a couple days' growth of hair.

The Amazonian picked out a couple of T-shirts, her thick upper arms exposed in the tank top and jeans.

Eh, Sasha killed a couple of demons he really shouldn.t have.

I hadn.t seen you in a couple of days.

Kiera dreamt of a planet filled with spiders and dinosaurs and awoke in her bed a couple of hours later to the soft sound of her alarm clock going off.

The couple gave each other another heated look, and she wolfed down her food before leaving them in peace.

You want me to bring you a couple more paintings?

We'll leave after the wedding, so you have a couple of days.

She kept her eyes on the couple instead of the crowd.

They were a handsome couple, the elegant woman's hair so fine and blonde it resembled white silk.

Evelyn smiled tightly from her position a couple of feet away, her attention riveted to the situation before her.

One of the doors opened as she passed, and a couple emerged.

Most days were blessed by a sun that warmed you enough that a couple of heavy sweaters were more than adequate outer wear.

Dean shrugged and reached for a jar of peanut butter just as Fred joined the couple.

He paused, letting his pronouncement sink in and then added, There's a couple of ladies from Boston who are shopping for airplane tickets as we sit here.

Sure enough, in just a couple of days she gets a message from these ladies up in Boston.

They just got all excited and had me hold a couple of rooms.

We've practically got a full house of ice climbers starting in a couple of days, Dean answered.

The couple was back in Bird Song by seven o'clock.

They were quite a couple.

After dawn arrived at last and the couple were showered and dressed, they speculated further on the late night sounds as Cynthia filled Bird Song's breakfast table with fresh baked goodies.

Fred joined the couple.

As the couple climbed to higher elevations, more caution was necessary as icy patches became more frequent.

The couple drove over the narrow wooden bridge that spanned Red Mountain Creek, and joined two other cars in the small parking area.

The January sun continued in its brilliance and the rhythmic gliding across the crystal snow, though not exhausting, warmed the couple to the point where even their limited outer cover seemed excessive.

They saw others on the trail only once when an elderly couple steamed by them with a wave.

While there remained much of the afternoon, the shortened days of winter dipped the sun below the towering mountains as the tired couple finished the loop, returned to their jeep and left for home.

The small undated photo was quite dark but showed a couple, perhaps in their thirties, standing before a church window.

As soon as the couple joined Fred behind the closed door of their office-sitting room, Dean explained the identity of their new guest.

God, we were a couple of kids when it happened.

He treated both boys equally—like they were a couple of pansies in his mind.

She called me a couple of days ago and told me she'd taken off and flown out to Colorado with the boy.

Cynthia reluctantly put the notebook aside and the couple began to carry the fresh baked goods and other breakfast items to the dining room.

Dean skied a few tentative yards down the slope, took a couple of turns, stopped, and assessed himself.

Fred understood this and volunteered to ski with Donnie while the others took a couple of runs from the higher elevations.

I can't imagine trying to sleep with just a couple of little steel pegs hammered into the rock the only thing holding me from a couple of thousand foot drop!

I messed up a couple of letters and have to go back and change them.

You'll also need rope, not cut from your outside clothes line, but a couple of lengths of one-hundred and fifty feet each of 9 or 10mm line.

Claire's five dollar pieces are all worn—worth a couple of hundred at best.

I never even met Fred until a couple of days before she died.

It was a scene from another time as Dean's friend and his smiling wife handed the reins to the urban couple.

I didn't sleep worth a damn last night, I got rapped in the head pretty good this morning, and I just drove a couple of hundred miles in a blizzard.

However, in view of the Shipton couple's unconventional estrangement, he wasn't sure what words might be appropriate.

It's not like they're dealing with a couple of novices here.

He banged himself up fairly badly—broke a couple of ribs, did something to his knee and leg, whacked his head pretty good and cut up his face.

The word is he fell a pretty fair distance and bounced a couple of times.

Give it a couple of days and we'll laugh about it over a beer.

Dean continued to hold Martha's hand as they walked uptown and found a place open on Seventh Avenue, a couple of blocks from Bird Song.

Cynthia had given him such an instrument at the time the couple signed papers acquiring Bird Song.

There's still a couple of things that bother me a mite.

It's been a terrible couple of weeks.

Gladys Turnbull remained Bird Song's sole paying guest, at least for a couple of days longer.

During the two weeks there was a Mexican dinner at the Catholic church, a couple of movies, three evenings at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool and even a day of downhill skiing at Telluride.

The following weekend, two and a half weeks after Edith's death, Penny and Mick returned to bird Song for a couple of days of ice climbing, a further reminder of the ice park incident.

Before the couple left for their climb, Dean pulled Penny aside.

He'd be taking a big risk and going to a lot of trouble just because I took a couple of swings at him.

But Ryland's personal knowledge of her was limited to a couple rolls in the hay a dozen years ago.

The couple had recently moved back to Fairhaven, in rural New England, after years away.

Each day of the following two weeks, Gabriel retrieved the couple, brought them to the same room, and schooled them in the art of feeding without killing.

It was 1900, and the happy couple were the only people in the world.

Absolutely. It will take me at least a couple hours, Go!

A couple approached as Jackson completed his rescue.

The couple headed upstairs.

The couple spent most of the day quiet, holding each other, staying connected.

You're the couple responsible for stopping him!

Jackson crooned, "There's the happy couple."

When the couple returned, they heard the music, and Sarah said, "He's not taking this very well, is he?"

I guess we're just a couple of insomniacs, huh?

Gerald got a couple of plates from the cabinet and two knives.

They made an attractive couple, both so sophisticated in appearance.

She pointed at a picture where Alex and Carmen were half hidden behind another couple.

It took me a couple of years to realize God had answered my prayer the first time.

They were the perfect couple – and Lori didn't want children.

I've been openly courting Carmen from day one, but all I have to do is see Lori a couple of times and you think we're romantically involved.

Take a break for a couple of hours.

She stared at his chest, not looking up until he stopped a couple feet from her.

They walked parallel to an abandoned highway for a couple of hours until they reached the second fed site.

His body didn't feel right, but he had enough drugs with him to get him through a couple of weeks, when his body would be fully healed.

A couple of hours later, Dan's voice came across his net.

It'll take a couple of days to charge.

The couple exchanged a look.

He's not expecting me for another couple of hours.

Give me a couple of hours then we'll leave.

Go rest up for a couple hours.

Ully returned a couple of minutes later.  He strode to Toby's cell and dangled the talisman before it.  Toby's door opened.

In a couple of years, I won't have so many problems searching the memories.  It'll be instantaneous, like that! he said and snapped his fingers.

You've got a couple hours until midnight.

A middle-aged couple had won the prize – me!

Only your bicycling magazine, a few circulars and a couple of bills.

We checked a couple of bars local to the World Wide office but they were crazy-busy after-work places and no one remembers diddly.

Lieutenant Anderson's response sounded more like an apology for being unable to locate two pillars of the community than a proper description of the two as a couple of leg-breaking punks.

We're just a couple of tourists.

After the young couple took their key and fairly skipped away, the old man retreated to the back room, leaving Dean alone with the stack of registration forms.

I've got a couple of last minute things to check out on Byrne....

The couple from North Carolina, the only guests using their own names, hadn't checked in until evening and remembered nothing.

Some other couple came in just before we left, hauling bags and all.

Only a couple of days later we hear all hell's broken loose 'cause something ain't where it's supposed to be.

Like I told you, when the twins found out half the state was after their ass, they laid low—for a long time, couple of months.

There was an upscale coffee shop a couple of blocks away and Fred suggested they stop for coffee.

Fred mentioned there was no name on the mailbox for apart­ment C. Mrs. Glass said there had been a name the last time she was there, a couple of weeks ago.

You wouldn't believe what shit went on up there, just because I told a couple of those jerks what I thought about them pawing me.

It's been a tough couple of weeks, he answered.

They told me if Jeff's body wasn't found the first couple of weeks, it had probably washed out to sea and would maybe never be located.

He can go anywhere in the world in six days, especially if he has a couple of a million dollars.

The note on the refrigerator said he'd be back in a couple of days and would check in by phone.

Now let's acts like a couple of adults.

I had a couple of hoods break into my house and if I find out Arthur helped them find me, I'll personal­ly beat him into the ground.

They moved into a brand new building a couple of months back.

It took two more beers and 30 minutes before a couple of men looking totally out of place in spit-and-polish business suits entered the bar.

We're gonna get up slowly and walk out of here like a couple of old pals.

The license plate had been removed but Dean had a tracer placed on the vehicle identification number, a procedure that would take a couple of days.

Dean woke up feeling as if a truck had hit him, backed up and rolled over him a couple more times just to make sure.

It's been a tough couple of weeks for your mother.

If I had a couple of million bucks, I'd be staying in the swellest place I could find.

Except for buying and selling a couple of vehi­cles and getting here he's had nothing to do but train.

After I checked out the list I spent the afternoon at a rest stop squinting at a couple of a thou­sand bikers' numbers trying to spot him, but no luck.

They tried a couple of times to telephone Mrs. Porter back in Parkside but weren't able to get through.

Easy enough to be a saint with a couple of million bucks in your back pocket.

He had a couple of drinks—not as much as me—but he wasn't drunk.

Nope. Our only stop was for a couple of beers.

If you had dumped back up the road a couple of miles, you'd still be falling.

The two of you are pretty good for a couple of kitchen table detectives.

He holed up in Ohio for a couple of weeks and but then in Kansas he got spooked some­one was on to him.

As long as each thought the other stole their lousy couple of a million the fur kept flying.

I guess I've always been a dreamer and one night when I was just taking a piss I tripped over a couple suitcases with all my dreams in 'em. Sometimes there are temptations you just can't pass up.

I've got a couple of million I've hardly touched.

We weren't sure he wasn't followed or something—we whispered like a couple of kids and couldn't wait to sneak out of there.

He'll turn thirty in a couple months.

That idea hadn't troubled her with Josh – possibly because she had never thought of them as a married couple?

I'll bring a couple of cages home from work tomorrow, so we can catch the chickens and bring them all up here at once.

We tried to act like an old married couple.

It doesn't give a good clean shave, so I use one of these a couple times a week.

Carmen poured them both a cup of coffee and sat down with a couple pieces of toast.

Mums says a couple should never go to bed angry.

It was nice simply being a couple.

Only a buffalo cow right now - and a couple of Angora goats Carmen bought for me.

She kept a couple of goats that are supposed to kid in February.

She pealed off a couple of leaves of hay and threw them into Ed's stall.

A Nubian goat and her three kids shared the rocky terrain, along with a couple of Angora goats.

With any luck, by this time next year there would be a couple of pronghorn antelope.

They sat in comfortable silence, watching a couple of squirrel's frolic in the warm spring sun.

The stones were sunk in the sand now, covered by a couple inches of water.

Once across the creek, she pushed her way up the overgrown trail and across the field, pausing to watch a couple of ducks on the pond.

I thought it would be nice to have him stay for a couple of weeks.

He'd heard the same rumors his little brother had, that Claire was sleeping with at least a couple other men.

She'd seen him trying to train the Black God a couple of times but never in the ring with any of the vamps.

I'm taking a couple with me.

She jumped, surprised to find the Black God a couple of feet behind her, staring at the scene.

Within a couple of hours, clouds blocked the moon, and the snow began again.

The small town had only dirt roads, and his glanced lingered towards a farmers market under the awnings in the center, a couple of blocks away.

I'd say to monitor it for a couple of days and get a feel for any trends in time they enter and exit.

As the lower ranking of the married couple, the name of Jenn's betrothed was added to her family's record, indicating he was likely the son of another servant.

She'd lost too much weight over the past couple of weeks.

He wants to rent your house – he and a couple of other guys.

One couple was now living in New Jersey.

They were a lovely couple and every eye in the room was on them as they danced to a lively Latin tune.

They talked for a little while longer and then she announced that she had to bury Brutus, but she would meet them at the stable in a couple hours for the first ride.

After a couple grabs, he finally pulled a large crawdad from the creek.

I'm not sure – probably a couple of hours.

She bought a couple sundresses and some feminine T-shirts for herself.

He said a couple of weeks.

What have you got planned for the next couple of hours?

Megan forced the anger to the back of her mind and greeted the couple warmly.

In fact, I think they'd make a perfect couple.

A couple moved out here and listed it for sale.

I have a couple of brooms and dust pans.

Yeah. The couple that moved to California a few weeks ago.

Maybe later she could build a couple more cabins, far from each other, and rent them out too.

I see trails leading to this pool and the brush trimmed back - maybe a couple more small cabins.

You can fall in love with someone in a couple of hours.

As the couple approached, the man reached down and took the infant from the woman.

After all, every married couple started out with some kind of problem.

She'll need to see a doctor in a couple of days for follow up shots, and you need to watch the bite wounds for signs of an infection.

She tossed a couple kibbles under the bed and heard the cat crunch them.