Example sentences for: couched

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • His advice, couched in language that reflects the tolerance of one who has spent years correcting English themes, flows from an enviable intimacy with, confidence in, and control of the language.

  • 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.


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