How to Use bound in a Sentence

bound

1 of 3 adjective
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  • There’s sound, wound, bound, pound, round and so forth.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2023
  • One of the bound people, a man, was yelling for help, police said.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • At one point, a prisoner called out to guards that the bound man on the floor was dying.
    — Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The brim is cut, and the edges are either welted, bound, curled, or, in some cases, left raw.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2024
  • They were sold as broadsides for ordinary folk and as bound books for the new rich.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Behrend’s lower bound, by contrast, didn’t budge for decades.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • And not just because Williams (Colorado bound) and Peat, who are both 5-star recruits in ther classes, can take over the game.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The bound version has blank pages, photo galleries, and space for reviews.
    — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Abu Al-Ola’s hands remained bound, with the yellow cloth resting across his forehead.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The lexicon consisted of two classes of words: free and bound.
    — Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • Inside the home library, a shelf has a small stack of her father’s bound books of poems and his first chapbook of poems from 1994.
    — Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The most horrifying thing is not just the pair of bound, inert bodies seen lying in the foreground.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Working from the outside of the basket, topstitch the bound edge a scant ⅛ inch above the bottom of bias tape, catching inside of tape inseam.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Zedekiah was forced to watch his sons killed and was then blinded, bound, and taken to Babylon as a prisoner.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The two guards on the morning shift are unable to gain entry to the Gardner as Abath and the second night watchmen remain bound and gagged in the museum’s basement.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Corpses with their hands bound, or bearing wounds and broken bones, or telling a silent, grim story of point-blank execution.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Then the bound molecules change shape in a way that could create entanglement.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Medill told his employees to evacuate, shouting to some of the men to grab the bound volumes that contained every past issue of the paper.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • An Israeli soldier can be seen stomping on the head of one Palestinian man who is on his back, his bound hands covering his face.
    — Caroline Radnofsky, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Armed ethnic Arabs arrive at dawn in pickup trucks with bound women and girls in the back, according to the accounts of two commercial truckers at the scene.
    — Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Another man with cuts and bruises to his face was shown being questioned via an interpreter while sitting on a bench with bound hands and feet.
    — Guy Faulconbridge, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Yet another video depicts a bound and blindfolded Palestinian man who appears to have blood on his head and arm.
    — Caroline Radnofsky, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • But the people selling bound versions of popular fics for profit are cut from a different (book) cloth.
    — Elizabeth Minkel, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Dhar says that the cuts in supply from Saudi were likely because the kingdom is targeting an $80 a barrel oil price, but yet prices remain range bound.
    — WSJ, 5 July 2023
  • This device allowed the team to see the difference in time delay between one photon bouncing off a quantum dot and a bound pair of photons doing the same thing.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Tall windows throw light on desks and workspaces, a conference room with a big oak table, and on shelves filled with the priceless archive of bound volumes holding issues going back 65 years.
    — Mark Antonio Wright, National Review, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Police have identified a teenage girl nearly 50 years after her body was found bound, gagged, wrapped in a tarp and dumped in a drainage ditch in Connecticut, officials said Monday.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Lacey Flint, the archivist and chief curator of the Explorers Club, leads us to a room filled with bound volumes of research material and ephemera from the club’s history and presents a few highlights.
    — Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In most cases, that’s a lower bound estimate of the value, especially for childcare.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • In the plea agreement, which contained graphic details of abuse, Franke said her son was often kept bound, and that her nine-year-old daughter was made to do manual labor outside in the hot sun with no water or shoes.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2024
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bound

2 of 3 noun
  • If the ball is kicked out of bounds, it will be placed at the 40.
    — Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Over the last 10 years, the food industry has moved on leaps and bounds.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The ball went out of bounds, and Ayton fell into the stands chasing the ball.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 8 May 2023
  • White also made two free throws and threw the ball out of bounds in the last 17 seconds.
    — Brian Dulik, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Her 2-year-old’s day is spent within the bounds of a small room, with just a few toys and a crib.
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • Lessons, far beyond the bounds of the curriculum, will be learned.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Out of a timeout, Adebayo was swarmed in the paint, with the ball going out of bounds off the Magic.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Though Tyler Bass got a great bounce on his kick, the Bills weren’t able to recover as the ball went out of bounds.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • More ambitious flights of fancy are to come in the weeks ahead as the series tries to push the bounds of the format.
    — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • Hilton got one foot in bounds on the play, a call that stood after a replay review.
    — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Virginia Tech’s first shot bounced out of bounds and resulted in a turnover.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Mercury legend Diana Taurasi took a floater that missed but went out of bounds off the Fever.
    — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Pressuring me to have children for your sake is out of bounds.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The ball caromed out of bounds with one-tenth of a second left and none of the officials knew which team touched it last.
    — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • At one point, Curry stripped Derrick Jones Jr. on a spin move, but threw it out of bounds on the other end.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Riordan couldn’t grab the rebound and the ball went out of bounds, giving Mitty a chance to win.
    — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • That gave the Celtics a sideline out of bounds near midcourt, and Horford tossed in a 3-pointer just before the buzzer.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • Both comments involved some of the exact type of language Chutkan deemed out of bounds.
    — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Be clear that advocating for the ex is out of bounds and demeaning to you.
    — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Then Martinez has running room on the right side and finally is knocked out of bounds at the Spartans’ 17.
    — Nick Daschel | Ndaschel@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The set ended fitting when the Falcons tried to block one of Hanes’ smashes only for the ball to carom out of bounds.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • On her iPhone, Mandy was monitoring an app that helps hunters stay in bounds.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Junior Leah Smith stepped out of bounds at the end of her first tumbling pass, her first such error of the season, and tallied a 9.625.
    — Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Kamara, 28, lost control of the play and fell out of bounds on a pass from quarterback Derek Carr.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Coppell wasn’t in the bonus, and coach Ryan Murphy said his team was trying to foul in the final seconds to force Clark to have to take the ball out of bounds.
    — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The ball was kicked around a few times before going out of bounds and remaining a Cleveland ball.
    — Joshua Gunter, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The ball caromed off two Poway blockers, landed out of bounds, and the Parker bench erupted, sprinting on the floor.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2023
  • On second down, Herbert couldn’t find an open receiver and launched the ball out of bounds, deep and well over the head of Derius Davis.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • After a little bit of scrambling, Singleton and Wachsmuth were ruled out of bounds and returned to the center of the mat.
    — oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Williams also threw a long would-be completion to receiver Shemar Kirk, who stepped out of bounds.
    — Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2024
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bound

3 of 3 verb
  • His blast from the sand bounded to the back of the green, 22 feet from the hole.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 18 June 2023
  • It’s bounded by the Kansas state line to the west and Holmes Street to the east.
    — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • His fans went bounding down the steps in the stands behind the dugout, with their phones and cameras in hand.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The next sound is generally that of the ball bounding off the back fence.
    — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Hudson’s adult son bounded down the stairs and picked up the little girl in his arms.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Hawks and owls prey on rodents bounding across grassy slopes.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The reason for his recoil was soon revealed as a frog bounded out of the long grass around his ball.
    — Jack Bantock, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • For the most part, his bounding amateurism is the right approach.
    — Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023
  • On the north side of Wilshire was a scrubby rectangle carved out of the field, bounded by three more long, low buildings to the north.
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • With a little bit more than five and a half minutes left in the game, a loose ball bounded toward the sideline.
    — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 15 June 2023
  • Two therapy dogs, Pax and Phoebe, bounded from store to store.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
  • After the two quickly exchanged words, Lovullo bounded out of the dugout and was quickly tossed.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The ball sailed so far that Bills players couldn’t prevent it from bounding into the end zone, shaving 20 yards off the net distance.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • About 15 minutes before first pitch, Bob Melvin bounds down the staircase from the clubhouse and passes by Williams, making his way away from the field.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • A little more rebound damping on the rear axle may help the RS feel more planted bounding over curbing.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Sanders stays in the trailer as Ralphie completes her run, bounding straight toward him.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The Sun is bounding into your sign, lighting you up with a special energy and drive that will push you along for the next thirty days.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2023
  • Around 1960, the area bounded by Shoe Lane and three other streets was a growing Black middle-class neighborhood.
    — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Its northern and eastern borders are contiguous with the forest and it is bounded by by 60th Street and Silver Spring Drive on the south and west.
    — Daphne Chen, Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2023
  • Many of my memories are like this: A single scene, a tableau as still and bounded as a nativity.
    — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • His young son, Daniele, in a bright yellow jump suit, merrily bounded in, to his father’s delight.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Transplants adore the island's quiet beaches, which are bounded by rolling dunes and sapphire waves.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Someone else’s labels or limits are not going to bound me and my ability to do anything.
    — Samuel Maude, ELLE, 14 Feb. 2023
  • It and the campsite are stunningly situated on Dickson Lake, which is bounded by a spired glacier at the far end of the water that lights up pink with the sunrise.
    — Cassidy Randall, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Even before Prince William bounded on stage to sing his dad’s praises, the underlying message was clear: Charles is Great.
    — Mike McCahill, Variety, 8 May 2023
  • On Johnson’s interception, the 21-yard pass hung in the air, bounded off Proche’s hands and was picked off by Jartavius Martin, who returned it 59 yards.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Squirrel Tracks Squirrel tracks are small and often seen in bounding groups of four, similar to rabbit tracks.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The first batch of furry predators, flown in from Oregon, bounded out of crates in Grand County, Colorado, across an undisclosed meadow.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Portland’s Loria suffered a bloody nose in the seventh minute when his attempt at a cross bounded off the feet of Minnesota’s Wil Trapp and hit him directly in the face.
    — oregonlive, 1 July 2023
  • But that's not where the story ends because Inky galloped into the furniture warehouse and hid there for nearly three weeks after bounding out of the truck.
    — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023

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