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.

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

  • Seldom did anyone admit to lying, but statements were often couched in terms colorfully indicating that the speaker had abandoned verity.

  • The bourgeoisie and the Bible Belt are not after all the most profitable audience; the public that is wants strong sensation, which they will to an extent measure by the language in which the films are couched.


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