Example sentences for: couched

How can you use “couched” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The dilemma can be resolved either by attempting a definition (which no one will understand) or by providing a superficial pass at a definition couched in language suggesting that the user can find no succor in the work in hand.

  • His political platform, a kind of Swedish model democratic socialism couched in extracts from Whitman and Dewey, is about as likely to sweep the country at this point as freemasonry or theosophy.

  • In one conversation between a Minneapolis supervisor and a headquarters agent, the latter complained that Minneapolis's FISA request was couched in a manner intended to get people "spun up."

  • In Wordspinner , some of the quizzes are mere vocabulary tests, though couched in light-hearted utterances; for example, at Graffiti II the reader is asked to define the underscored words in sentences like “Clark Kent was a transvestite” and “Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry,” though one could think of a lot of regrettable actions for which vasectomy would be a feeble excuse.

  • Predictions can be vague, for example, or couched in complicated gibberish.


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