Example sentences for: couching

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

  • Reporters initially preserved an air of dignity by couching their questions in terms of perjury, but they soon tossed aside that fig leaf and pounced on the subject everyone wanted to know about: Did Clinton and Lewinsky have sex?

  • While often couching their critiques in language that assails the pursuit of perfection, what they really are attacking is the far more oft-expressed—albeit far less lofty—desire to improve or enhance a particular behavior or trait by the application of emerging biomedical knowledge in genetics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and physiology.

  • Unfortunately, for all his couching language ("Drugs can be awful") and care, the author is part of the problem, not the solution.

  • Couching every issue in such language maximizes the leverage of McCain's heroism.


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