Couple in a sentence as a noun

Give yourself a couple years, and then try again.

She had surgery to fix the PFO a couple months later.

Otherwise you'll have to start looking around for a real job in a couple of weeks.

Or Google + Bing + Yahoo turned off the switch for a couple of hours at the same time... that would be a statement.

A couple of months back they sent an email that they are "discontinuing" lifetime accounts.

That comment or couple of comments and their resulting threads are going to make sure very few people ever read what I've written.

Couple in a sentence as a verb

I'm not saying that lightly, I worked for a dozen startups, a couple of which crashed hard in the most gut wrenchingly painful way you could imagine.

My favorite story in a related genre: I was a scholarship student at university, funded by a wealthy couple.

Think of it this way: had your company been successful, it almost certainly would have left you in a state where you'd be working for someone else for a couple years during your earnout.

I like hnsearch a lot, but I'd like us to take a second to thank whoever was running SearchYC, which for the past couple years has been practically indispensable in keeping up with this community.

Indeed, GoT-broadcast-to-top-of-TPB time is counted in a couple of hours; so why do they try to push those technologies still?The answer is probably because the main goal of DRM is to control distribution channels, not copy-prevention.

Whenever anybody says that CSS is easy, or "of course you can do that with CSS", or even hints that CSS is somehow well-designed......the only thing I really need to say, is that every couple months, on Hacker News, where a lot of really smart people hang out, a new top-voted story comes up about how to center a div.

Couple definitions

noun

a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome"

See also: twosome duet

noun

a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago"

See also: mates match

noun

a small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days"

noun

two items of the same kind

noun

(physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines

verb

bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"

See also: match mate pair twin

verb

link together; "can we couple these proposals?"

verb

form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off"

See also: pair

verb

engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring"

See also: copulate mate pair