BOUND in a Sentence

Learn BOUND from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
290 example sentences for BOUND, such as:
1. She was bound to a chair.
2. He left his victim bound and gagged.
3. The conflict is almost bound to intensify.
4. If you're bound to gad about, I'll drive you.
5. Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BOUND
bound
 n.  a line determining the limits of an area
 a.  confined in the bowels
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Zeena took the view that Mattie was bound to make the best of Starkfield since she hadn't any other place to go to; but this did not strike Ethan as conclusive.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  Moreover, Scarlett and her father were bound together by a mutual suppression agreement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  So the ladies felt in duty bound to stretch a point, especially in the case of so intrepid a blockader.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Her nerves must be shredded if the noise of the well windlass, bound up in her earliest memories, could frighten her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  One boy, on whose face a blond fuzz had just begun to sprout, was dumped on the front porch by a mounted soldier bound for Fayetteville.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  A curious sense of lightness, of freedom, pervaded her now that she had finally hardened her heart against all that bound her to the old days and the old Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  It was this knowledge that made life endurable, this knowledge that Ashley, bound by honor, loved her from afar for beautiful things deep buried in her that he alone could see.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  If you're bound to gad about, I'll drive you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  Even now they might be riding wildly through the night, bound for Texas.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  She did not realize then that with one stroke she had cut forever any fragile tie that still bound her to the old days, to old friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
12  They appeared, therefore, punctual and resigned, with the air of people bound for a dull "At Home," and after them Hilda and Muriel straggled, yawning and pinning each other's veils and ribbons as they came.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
13  Not in the least, though I'm bound to say there are not many married people in it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
14  And I'm bound to say Lily DOES distract it: I believe he'd marry her tomorrow if he found out there was anything wrong with Bertha.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
15  The first-story front of clear glass, the plates cleverly bound at the edges with brass.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
2  Appreciation of works of art is bound to be dominated by a particular kind of interest.
3  I feel honour bound to attend because I promised I would.
4  Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
5  It's a difficult situation, but if we can just tough it out, things are bound to get better soon.
6  He left his victim bound and gagged.
7  Their business came from a few big publishers, all of whose books they bound.
8  The event is bound to attract wide press coverage.
9  The candidate must submit two bound copies of his or her thesis.
10  If he chooses Mary it's bound to cause problems.
11  He was bound and gagged and left in a cell for three days.
12  They put us in a cell, and the next day some bumbling judge bound us over.
13  She was bound to a chair.
14  The ethnic populations are so intermingled that there's bound to be conflict.
15  The conflict is almost bound to intensify.