How to Use bound in a Sentence

bound

1 of 3 adjective

• One of the bound people, a man, was yelling for help, police said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• When hurt, damage received is channeled to bound foes.
  — Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
• 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
• The bound, heavy scriptures were placed on the cot and carried off in a procession to its sleeping quarters.
  — Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
• On the smallest scales, the strong nuclear force binds quarks into bound structures, three-at-a-time, known as baryons.
  — Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
• Abu Al-Ola’s hands remained bound, with the yellow cloth resting across his forehead.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Over that time, galaxies, galaxy groups, and galaxy clusters all formed bound structures.
  — Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
• 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
• With Freakier Friday hitting theaters, we’re all bound to be hit by a wave of nostalgia.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• 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
• The teenage phenom who seemed bound to start at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar instead fell down the depth chart.
  — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Even then, the upper bound first established by Erdős and a collaborator nearly a century ago had barely budged.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 2 May 2023
• Two people familiar with the board’s thinking say that the members felt bound to silence by confidentiality constraints.
  — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Efforts to close the gap by raising the lower bound or lowering the upper one failed for decades, until a pair of mathematicians added a key ingredient.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 22 June 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
• The bound words were nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that always existed with markers indicating a relation to other objects, events or states.
  — Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• He is also considered the prime suspect in the death of another woman whose body was also found bound and hidden in thick underbrush along a remote beach highway, authorities said.
  — Michael Balsamo and Jake Offenhartz, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
• The bound paper booklets in which students hand-write their responses to test questions have surged in popularity during the AI explosion.
  — Jamil Zaki, CNBC, 12 May 2026
• 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
• 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
• Years later, when tragedy strikes again and a mysterious inheritance surfaces, Ruth is forced to confront unsettling truths about the women who raised her and decide whether to redefine her future or remain bound to the past.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 May 2026
• Vorobok searched the library’s newspaper databases as well as city directories, Sanborn maps and bound editions of the original century-old newspapers, then compiled it all online with the help of the digital services team.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Oct. 2025
• The Dodgers’ split-squad group that journeyed the 14 miles from Glendale (and ultimately lost to Texas, 7-6) was largely a skeleton crew of Triple-A bound prospects and wannabes.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
• The pro-bound Crimson Tide are fronted by QB Ty Simpson, who threw 28 touchdowns to five interceptions in his final collegiate season.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026

bound

2 of 3 noun

• Not out of the end zone, out of bounds.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• There are not even clear bounds around those groups.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
• Fall out of bounds with the ball still in their hands.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
• King gained two yards and was stopped in bounds as the clock ticked.
  — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
• The ball was bouncing out of bounds.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
• And kind of push the bounds of something, right?
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
• He’s improved by leaps and bounds.
  — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
• We just got knocked backwards and didn’t get out of bounds.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Sep. 2025
• If the ball is kicked out of bounds, it will be placed at the 40.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
• Trim to keep in bounds during spring and summer.
  — Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026
• The ref missed another call and the ball went out of bounds.
  — Mike Conley, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026
• Carson James was forced out of bounds just short of the end zone.
  — Ella Diaz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Sep. 2025
• There are no bounds, Lee says, to what the two do for each other.
  — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 6 Apr. 2026
• Schmidt has hooked kickoffs out of bounds and had an extra point blocked last week.
  — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• The same applies if a ball is kicked into the end zone and then bounces out of bounds.
  — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• But the pass was too long, went out of bounds beyond the baseline and that was that.
  — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 14 Mar. 2026
• McLaurin got out of bounds with two seconds left.
  — David Aldridge, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• Hegardt slid and deflected a Lopez pass out of bounds.
  — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2025
• Pressuring me to have children for your sake is out of bounds.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
• But it was called incomplete after his hand hit out of bounds.
  — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2026
• That was totally out of bounds in terms of time constraints.
  — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Do not rub or spread the stain outside of its original bounds.
  — Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano, The Spruce, 18 June 2026
• March Madness is growing leaps and bounds.
  — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026
• Devin Bale's punt went out of bounds at the Ole Miss 6.
  — Arkansas Online, 14 Sep. 2025
• There are no formal entry points, and welcome signs mark the park’s bounds.
  — Andrea Bussell, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2026
• Lessons, far beyond the bounds of the curriculum, will be learned.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• But that’s a little thing, Javonte knows he cannot get tackled in bounds.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2025
• Hilton got one foot in bounds on the play, a call that stood after a replay review.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2024
• Over the last 10 years, the food industry has moved on leaps and bounds.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
• The football sailed past them, landed near the hash and slowly bounced out of bounds.
  — Grace Raynor, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026

bound

3 of 3 verb

• Star has grown by leaps and bounds the past decade and a half.
  — Noah Daly, Idaho Statesman, 30 Mar. 2026
• Hawks and owls prey on rodents bounding across grassy slopes.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Above the front door, a new deck was bounded by chain-link fencing.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
• Oprah Winfrey bounds into view in a white dress.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 June 2026
• 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
• Two more fireworks bounded across the field and into the stands.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
• 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
• The stretch is bounded by high cliffs and subject to frequent slides, even un light rain.
  — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
• The next sound is generally that of the ball bounding off the back fence.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
• The dog first bounded over to his owner, Ryan Pera, to say hi.
  — Aviva Bechky, Houston Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Behind a big mama grizzly bounded a months-old cub.
  — Katie Nanton, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
• For the most part, his bounding amateurism is the right approach.
  — Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Her daughter, who is now 8, bounded down the steps first, wearing a pink bow and a broad smile.
  — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
• The bull wheeled, tearing through the fescue and bounded uphill.
  — Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
• Look for bald eagles perched in trees, tidepools gleaming with life, and dogs bounding through the surf.
  — Becca Blond, AFAR Media, 7 Oct. 2025
• In some species the nipples are fully exposed or are bounded by mere remnants of a pouch.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
• Her 3-point shooting has jumped leaps and bounds from the early part of her college career.
  — Matthew Coller, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2026
• Her most recent project bounds up multiple tallies and even reappears on one.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• In a few minutes, Michael bounded down the stairs from the upper floor bedroom.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
• Two therapy dogs, Pax and Phoebe, bounded from store to store.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 31 May 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
• 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
• Growing by leaps and bounds Lavrenov has always been prepared.
  — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• An antelope on a ridge teasingly stares before bounding off up the rocky hill.
  — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
• It’s bounded by the Boise River and runs all the way into the Foothills.
  — Idaho Statesman, 24 Oct. 2025
• It’s bounded by the Boise River and runs all the way into the Foothills.
  — Idaho Statesman, 17 Oct. 2025
• It’s bounded by the Boise River and runs all the way into the Foothills.
  — Idaho Statesman, 14 Oct. 2025
• Each time Ivy's owner, Ryan, draws nearer, the dog fakes him out and bounds away, tail wagging.
  — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026