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Example sentences for: couched

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

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.
To be sure, he was far too good and honorable a scholar to be considered, even remotely, a deliberate plagiarist; but he was careless at times and rather mean, and his apologies, always couched in language that tried to put the onus on others, come through as being very insincere indeed.
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.
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."
The treatment of idioms is pretty much standard, with the origins that can be found in other works repeated: but they are couched in user-friendly language.