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.

  • 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.

  • The collective implication is that Bauer's denials must have been couched to protect some unspecified kind of dalliance.

  • Much of the debate has been couched in terms of lowering standards, the dumbing-down of the education system, etc.

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


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