How to Use bind in a Sentence

bind

1 of 2 verb

• He doesn't like to wear clothes that bind.
• The machine binds the hay into bales.
• She bound her hair in a ponytail.
• The client is bound to clam up.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• Duff was bound to get on board.
  — Olivia Horn, Pitchfork, 20 Feb. 2026
• They had been bound, gagged, and shot in the head.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
• Most of the oil is bound for Asia.
  — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
• Now they are bound in a way no one would ask to be.
  — Brit McCandless Farmer, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
• More research is bound to show us!
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• You can’t be bound by the old models.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2026
• Yet, some issues are bound to crop up.
  — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
• There are bound to be some hiccups.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2025
• They were bound to drop the bola at some point.
  — E.r. Pulgar, Pitchfork, 10 Mar. 2026
• Slide the board out and bind the baskets with wire.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
• His feet were bound with tape, and a belt was wrapped around his left wrist.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
• In both cases, you’re bound to lose in the long run.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
• You’re bound to need a restock, so why not get them on sale?
  — Kaylah Jackson, NBC news, 25 June 2026
• Of course, with any size of garden, there’s bound to be weeds.
  — Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 20 May 2026
• Then the day got stranger, because it was bound to be in this city.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 18 June 2026
• The Mets are already bound for the golf course.
  — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
• It was passed on to his son, and it was trimmed and bound, preserved.
  — Regina E. Mason, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2026
• But the lefty seems bound for a huge payday on the open market.
  — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
• People are bound to make a mistake.
  — John Ramos, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
• The tender is not binding right now.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2026
• The crew of Artemis II now bound for the moon.
  — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
• With all that leaf-peeping, you’re bound to work up an appetite.
  — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
• There are bound to be a few teams willing to give him a shot on a small big league deal.
  — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
• Any day that starts with these tender apple muffins is bound to be a good one.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
• That means there are bound to be certain features that don’t work as promised.
  — Lance Whitney, PC Magazine, 14 Mar. 2026
• It had been bound for Zhoushan, China.
  — Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026

bind

2 of 2 noun

• It's a real bind having to meet all these deadlines.
• That high tax puts even the heirs in a bind.
  — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
• Which puts the Knicks in a bind.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
• Now Hilton is in a bit of a bind.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2026
• Ukraine now finds itself in a bind.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2025
• Each of those cases put the council in a bind.
  — Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
• So that really puts them in a bind.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
• The chaos has left pharmacies in a bind.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
• First responders can be caught in the same bind.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
• Salaries went up, but a very restrictive hard cap has put teams in a bind.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2022
• Phytates in whole grains and oxalates in spinach bind to iron and zinc as well.
  — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 9 June 2026
• Phytates in whole grains and oxalates in spinach bind to iron and zinc as well.
  — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 9 June 2026
• That could leave Colorado in a bind this winter.
  — Mead Gruver, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
• In short, Florida is in a bind.
  — Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
• But if Biden were to leave the race right now, Democrats would be in more of a bind.
  — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2024
• Fiscally, Britain is in a bind.
  — Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2026
• The best way to avoid this particular bind?
  — Danielle Higley, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
• All this means that later this year, the Fed could find itself in a bind once again.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 4 May 2022
• Still, the Golden Knights appear to be in a bind.
  — Murat Ates, New York Times, 15 May 2026
• The Iran crisis also puts the world’s central banks in a bind.
  — ABC News, 9 Mar. 2026
• If that flow is severed, several countries will be in a bind.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• But so far, no agreement has been made, putting the distilleries into a bind.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2023
• The flag movement has put the government in an awkward bind.
  — Olivia Kemp, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
• That’s a two-back formation that could put defenses in a bind.
  — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
• That frustration of that false start was nothing compared to the bind that lay in store.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Mar. 2026
• Their help could get you out of a real bind in the near future -- even as soon as later today.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
• But if Stroud cannot grow through his struggles, the Texans will be in a bind.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2026
• But on the days where Contreras isn’t available, the club could be in a bit of a bind.
  — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
• Frazier said that this jump might put State Farm in a financial bind.
  — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• Mason doesn’t think the church has to be in such a theological bind.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022