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couldn't

[ kood-nt ]

  1. contraction of could not.


couldn't

/ ˈʊəԳ /

contraction of

  1. could not
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Idioms and Phrases

  • hurt a flea, couldn't
  • can't
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Example Sentences

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"For three nights, I couldn't sleep because they were torturing me. Our hands were tied and put above our heads for hours, and we weren't wearing anything. Any time you would say 'I'm cold'… they would fill a bucket with cold water, pour it on you and switch on the fan."

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"I want to emigrate because of the things we saw in detention, and because of the mental torture of fearing the bombs falling on our heads. We wished for death but couldn't find it."

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"After we got tortured, I was in pain all night - from my back to my legs. The guys would carry me from my mattress to the toilet. My body, my back, my legs - my whole body was blue from beatings. For nearly two months I couldn't move."

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“Filming a scene at night and then looking up and seeing a tree, imagining what it would look like if I flashed the tree and revealed all the details which I couldn’t see with my eye.”

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In the end, the Dodgers couldn’t overcome the powerhouse Phillies — or their home city’s typical early-April weather.

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