Example sentences for: couldn

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

  • Daniel M. Chew, director of presidential correspondence, couldn't--or wouldn't--say.

  • Conservatism and hostility to foreign ideas, however, couldn’t be absolutely maintained.

  • It’s named after Harry Elkins Widener, who drowned on the Titanic because he couldn’t swim 50 yards to the lifeboats.

  • Beloved by working-class audiences, the peladito, using caló (Spanish slang) and pochismos (Americanisms), particularly poked fun at the acculturation of Mexicans who couldn’t speak Spanish and pointed out to them American discrimination against Mexicans.

  • The Israelis couldn’t even retaliate, being restrained by pressure from the American government, which wanted to preserve the Arab alliance against Iraq.


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