How To Use couch potato In A Sentence
- I reckon we're in danger of raising a whole generation of undiscriminating couch potatoes afflicted by TV-induced Attention Deficit Disorder.
- We are settled in our couch potato ways. Times, Sunday Times
- Some plans have a self-directed brokerage account option, which allows investors to purchase the assets for a couch potato portfolio, but the fees can make this option expensive and not worthwhile.
- My father becomes a couch potato during football season.
- He's turned into a real couch potato since he subscribed to the sports channel.
- The OED says "couch potato" originated as American slang, meaning "a pennon who spends leisure –time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes" .
- The instant snack was once the food of choice for students and couch potatoes. The Sun
- At last we will be providing for the needs of children in the 21st century to ensure that they do not become couch potatoes.
- Just a few hundred thousand couch potato members of the sports channel pay-per-view community, watching because there wasn't any football yet, or darts or speedway or boxing, getting value for their subscriptions, fat on the sofa in last year's Premier League football jersey, thick as you like, tweeting Bumble to say how much they fancied Lily Allen and googling "lbw" to find out why the man in the motorbike helmet had to go home when the ball only hit him on the leg. Top stories from Times Online
- No more nonstop basketball for couch potato Congressional staff members.