Sentence examples for couldn’t from high-quality English sources.

• I couldn’t talk.

• He couldn’t move.

• “No, I couldn’t do it, I couldn’t do it!

• As Home Secretary, I was told I couldn’t take on the Police Federation, but I did.

• But they couldn’t do anything.”

• Houellebecq couldn’t get Neil Young.

• I couldn’t put sentences together properly.

• The S.E.C. couldn’t regulate financial firms or securities.

Use couldn’t in a sentence.

• I couldn’t drink to sluice it down because I couldn’t swallow.

• It couldn’t continue like this, I realized; we couldn’t just talk.

• You couldn’t tolerate people who couldn’t tolerate babies on planes.

• She couldn’t become a lawyer, he said, she couldn’t even take law classes.

• I couldn’t move, couldn’t scream, couldn’t open my eyes,” she says.

• “The worst thing, we couldn’t get any information,” said one railway worker interviewed for the report.

• I carried the stress of situations I couldn’t change and therefore feelings I couldn’t release.

• I just couldn’t memorize it and we couldn’t go on to arithmetic until we could say the multiplication table.

couldn’t sentence examples

• “You couldn’t hire that band, you couldn’t afford that band, you couldn’t get them together.

• Many have found themselves facing real hardship - struggling to feed themselves and their families either because they couldn’t access food, or they couldn’t afford it.

• And while Twitter users couldn’t get enough of Lady Gaga’s multiple wardrobe changes on the carpet, Billy Porter’s “royal entrance”, and Katy Perry’s candelabra-inspired dress, we couldn’t help notice the female relationships that were being championed on the red carpet.

• She became a prisoner in her own home because she couldn’t take the children out, she couldn’t get down the stairs, she couldn’t cook, she couldn’t clean, she’s not been able to work and it has affected the entire family and will do so for the rest of their lives.