The locomotive moved up, the coupling slackened, and Fyodorov easily slipped it off the hook.

NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants

We will need about three days after the weather calms to less than three to five feet for that vessel to be able to hook up to the flexible coupling that it will be required to do.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Coupling reroutes lives, and delimits them, and when the stork turns up bearing a charming bundle the chances for complication grow alarmingly profuse.

NEWYORKER: Little Strangers