How To Use Couch potato In A Sentence
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I reckon we're in danger of raising a whole generation of undiscriminating couch potatoes afflicted by TV-induced Attention Deficit Disorder.
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We are settled in our couch potato ways.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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My father becomes a couch potato during football season.
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He's turned into a real couch potato since he subscribed to the sports channel.
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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" .
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The instant snack was once the food of choice for students and couch potatoes.
The Sun
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At last we will be providing for the needs of children in the 21st century to ensure that they do not become couch potatoes.
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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
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No more nonstop basketball for couch potato Congressional staff members.
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On the other hand, some well-known canine couch potatoes include the Bulldog, Basset Hound, Chow Chow, Rottweiler and Saint Bernard.
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This is a smart move, because otherwise the whole thing would be so creaky and old-fashioned that only the most determined Christie fan cum couch potato would watch it.
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It may not seem like it, but even the laziest of couch potatoes is a human dynamo.
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The couch potato became an athlete who trained 20 hours a week.
Times, Sunday Times
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We put our players on a brain healthy program that included a weight-loss group, regular exercise (surprisingly many of these former elite athletes had become couch potatoes), mental exercises, and nutritional supplements that support brain health, such as fish oil, and a proprietary formula including ginkgo biloba, huperzine A, phosphatidyl serine and vinpocetine, among others.
Daniel Amen, M.D.: Can Brain Trauma In NFL Players Be Rehabilitated?
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Even for the urban couch potatoes addicted to the remote, this might not be doomsday.
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This is a lovely event which appeals to all the couch potatoes who stuffed themselves with Christmas Turkey on the day before and who now need considerable exercise to work it off!
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Studies showed that non-obese, non-smoking exercisers live 8 years longer than their couch potato, smoking contemporaries.
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But what have couch potatoes, a more active lifestyle, and walkies around the Seven Acres got to do with regenerating East Bolton?
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We are settled in our couch potato ways.
Times, Sunday Times
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Skol's sales were up by 4%, thanks largely to demand from couch potatoes.
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The average balanced fund returned 9.45%. In addition, during 2001, the average domestic equity fund lost 11.32% while the couch potato lost only 1.80%.
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Then look at the couch potato who seems ready, not for an evening in front of the TV, but for a spell of inadvertent train spotting.
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I suspect you are both loud-mounthed, low-brow couch potatos who have never lifted a finger in defense of this country, but are happy to blatter away the freedoms that Kerry and every other veteran has fought for.
Kerry endorses in PA despite spectre of 'swift boat' tactics
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But not somebody who goes from being an introvert to an extravert (because a true introvert is exhausted by being around people, and extraverts are energized by other people, and that just doesn’t change in real life) or from being a couch potato to loving exercise and training (because that’s an incredibly difficult change in real life too).
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A screen is not just a screen, though. The one-way interaction between TV and the couch potato is far different than an absorbing Scrabble play-off with a friend on a mobile phone.
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Some of his interests, such as kinesiology, alkaline food, & blood microscopy are on the fringe or beyond currently accepted medical science, but these shortcomings do not detract from the value of a book that is both an easy read and chock full of helpful ideas for anyone from the couch potato to the experienced marathoner.
Light Along the Journey
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In many cases, Olympian designs serve as the basis for apparel that the average couch potato will be able to buy.
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You can't expect the average couch potato to see the irony in the fact that a TV pathologist was being used to promote a company in its death throes.
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Tired of watching the Grammy Awards as a couch potato?
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And yet it is full of couch potatoes rolling doobie after doobie and overly felicitous teeth-grinding cokeheads trying frantically to get a word in edgewise.
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Studies showed that non-obese, non-smoking exercisers live 8 years longer than their couch potato, smoking contemporaries.
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In Burns' 2002 update, his couch potato portfolio obtained a 10.37% total return from 1991 to 2001. The average balanced fund returned 9.45%.
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And it brings a whole new meaning to the term couch potato," he added.
BT Teams With Billionaire's Reality TV Creation
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From sci-fi stuff to lots of laughs to reality shows with a twist, it's couch potato heaven.
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Another fine joke involves a thick rope, while there's an extended and literal running gag that transforms one circular sprinter into a misplaced couch potato.
Times, Sunday Times
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My son is active in la crosse and is good physical condition, but some of his friends (I've known some of these kids for 10+ years) are couch potatoes, shaped like light bulbs at a time when their metabolism should permit them to burn it off with regular exercise.
Youth Sports
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Life is very self-reflexive in couch potato land.
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You are such a couch potato on weekends.
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The worry is that the growth of two low-priced alternatives will persuade couch potatoes that films can be had cheaply.
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We are settled in our couch potato ways.
Times, Sunday Times
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When an expensive fad that was supposed to transform the life of the couch potato fails, a little something in us comes alive.
Times, Sunday Times
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The couch potato became an athlete who trained 20 hours a week.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hope he wins the glitterball for all us couch potatoes cheering him on.
The Sun
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The researchers are adamant though, the development is aimed not at couch potatoes but so that bedridden or disabled people to get some of the benefits of exercise.
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I hope he wins the glitterball for all us couch potatoes cheering him on.
The Sun
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Another fine joke involves a thick rope, while there's an extended and literal running gag that transforms one circular sprinter into a misplaced couch potato.
Times, Sunday Times
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The instant snack was once the food of choice for students and couch potatoes.
The Sun
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Another fine joke involves a thick rope, while there's an extended and literal running gag that transforms one circular sprinter into a misplaced couch potato.
Times, Sunday Times
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He a couch potato. He just lies around, eating chips and watching TV all day long.
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One paralyzed by his own frustration with the world, the other a sworn couch potato who makes a religion out of channel surfing, the two men are the archetypical bad roommates.
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“What you described as a misdirection play,” e-mails an anonymous Sunday couch potato, “is really an influence block.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Tired of watching the Grammy Awards as a couch potato?
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The instant snack was once the food of choice for students and couch potatoes.
The Sun
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All the way around, we are enough of a lazy society, if you will, that the term couch potato has become popularized over the years.
CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2002
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When an expensive fad that was supposed to transform the life of the couch potato fails, a little something in us comes alive.
Times, Sunday Times
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In many cases, Olympian designs serve as the basis for apparel that the average couch potato will be able to buy.
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We are settled in our couch potato ways.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hope he wins the glitterball for all us couch potatoes cheering him on.
The Sun
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You are a participant, not a couch potato.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this case, the appellant was the Government of Alberta that suddenly had images of paying an allowance to every twenty- thirty- and forty-something couch potato in the province who “failed to launch”.
Ezra Levant: March 2008 Archives
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You'll definitely be in better shape than a beer-swilling, channel-surfing couch potato, but you won't be very fit.
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And by the way, ‘couch potato’ was coined in 1986.
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A Swindon man who used to be a couch potato is now preparing to take on eight of the UK's most gruelling endurance races to raise money for charity.
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That way we won't be couch potatoes or controlled by some faceless automata.
Times, Sunday Times
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The team indicated fidgeters burn off the calories, while couch potatoes can pile on the pounds.
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Before Althea Gibson punctured the color barrier of women's tennis 52 years ago, the sport was a genteel game played with the tempo of a minuet and the athleticism of couch potatoes.
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You are a participant, not a couch potato.
Times, Sunday Times
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For years now, the potato has had a bad press, so much so that the phrase "couch potato" is now synonymous with lumpen slobs who never get off the sofa.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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When an expensive fad that was supposed to transform the life of the couch potato fails, a little something in us comes alive.
Times, Sunday Times
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The instant snack was once the food of choice for students and couch potatoes.
The Sun
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No more nonstop basketball for couch potato Congressional staff members.
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The term couch potato could soon become obsolete as Britons switch to watching television at their desks and even on the move.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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It makes its point, calls for a revolution of the couch potatoes, and leaves it up to the viewer to work out how it all fits together.
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He's turned into a real couch potato since he subscribed to the sports channel.
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Many retirees are couch potatoes who like popping cold beers and relaxing in front of their $2500 wide-screen high definition television set.
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The instant snack was once the food of choice for students and couch potatoes.
The Sun
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The image of corpulent couch potatoes munching deep pan pepperoni and chilli while ogling a television screen for six hours was hard to expel from your mind.
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You are a participant, not a couch potato.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the two days since we learned of Cronkite's death, so much has been written about the man, about his rare tone of authority, about the avuncularity and comfort offered to couch potatoes by their "Uncle Walter," about the incredible events that he reported from moon walks to the Kennedy assassination.
Will Bunch: Walter's Choice --Cronkite's Lesson for Today's Journalists
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Another fine joke involves a thick rope, while there's an extended and literal running gag that transforms one circular sprinter into a misplaced couch potato.
Times, Sunday Times
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The couch potato became an athlete who trained 20 hours a week.
Times, Sunday Times
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He abhors the fast food culture and, as a student, can't understand why many of his peers are content to be couch potatoes.
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The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato.
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It suggested couch potato culture, where pancake make-up and glitz trump substance.
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And nomatterhow fit you are, you're just as susceptible to the same long-term damage as the average couch potato.
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In a major strategy to boost sport and combat Britain's ‘couch potato’ culture, the Government signalled the need to stop local councils siphoning off money meant for sport into other services.
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Really, on a scale from 0 to 10 (0 being a complete couch potato and 10 being a Navy seal) where are you?
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Our nation was not built by faint-hearted cowards and couch potatoes.
O'Malley's remarks to Virginia Democrats
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Penny works as a supermarket cashier and spends most of her home life trying to deflect obscene verbal abuse from her son, Rory, a couch potato.
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The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato.
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We are settled in our couch potato ways.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hope he wins the glitterball for all us couch potatoes cheering him on.
The Sun
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Nope, we jaded couch potatoes are demanding more.
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You are such a couch potato on weekends.
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Not to be outdone, television channels too have lined up romantic films for couch potato couples or for the majority who watch these movies to get a vicarious experience of falling in love.
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And nomatterhow fit you are,[Sentencedict] you're just as susceptible to the same long-term damage as the average couch potato.
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I hope he wins the glitterball for all us couch potatoes cheering him on.
The Sun
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He's turned into a real couch potato since he subscribed to the sports channel.
