How to Use hidebound in a Sentence

hidebound

adjective

• This is a place conscious of history, but not hidebound by it.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• That’s amazing to see someone quite so hidebound change in that way—and through pleasure.
  — Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2022
• These women did not work among older men at a hidebound company.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2016
• These women did not work among older men at a hidebound company.
  — Emily Steel, The Seattle Times, 23 Dec. 2017
• The sizzling chops and layered arrangements are not hidebound to any one genre.
  — Chrissie Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• The moral is that people are often too hidebound by social convention to state their views.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• Like golf, tennis was as hidebound as the aristocrats who then played and most closely followed the sport.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• This is far from ideal, which is precisely why hidebound senators ought to approve of it.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2021
• This is far from ideal, which is precisely why hidebound senators ought to approve of it.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• His most significant insight, though, was that there was no reason to be hidebound by borders.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022
• The presidential debates have in the past been hidebound affairs – and with good reason.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
• There is weird and dramatic incident aplenty in the book, all of it filtered through a hidebound mindset.
  — Gemma Sieff, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
• Don’t expect hidebound Baltimoreans to buy into the new name.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2022
• The decision was seen by some observers as a daring bid by a hidebound cultural establishment to keep up with the times.
  — Peter Ford, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2018
• The Catholic Church has a reputation for being a little hidebound.
  — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Those issues are still crucial for Macron, who is seeking to overhaul the country's hidebound labor laws and steep taxes.
  — Vivienne Walt / Paris, Time, 12 June 2017
• This gave pause to hidebound, conservative Catholics who were fine with the exclusionary stances the church was taking.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 17 May 2018
• For a country that had endured two and a half centuries of often absolutist rule by a hidebound monarchy, this was not a trivial achievement.
  — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• What the world of housing looks, feels, and acts like now is a place with altogether less patience for hidebound stipulations as to what can and can’t be done.
  — John McManus, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• These outward-looking provinces felt far from the hidebound, internecine conservatism of the capital.
  — Nick Frisch, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2016
• That’s most likely a reflection of my own hidebound prejudice that our universe is somehow unique and singular and not simply one of many.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 16 July 2022
• And while challenges persist, there are already signs that hidebound profligacy is being replaced by newfound autarky.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
• But the moment also coincided with a creative renaissance in the hidebound late-night format.
  — Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2022
• The Pulitzer Prize for music had long been considered problematic and hidebound.
  — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2021
• Though the driving decision had its detractors, hidebound husbands and fathers can still coerce their charges into staying at home.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• Bocuse helped transform a profession that for centuries had been little more than a gritty, hidebound trade in which kitchen secrets were guarded as state secrets.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• Hadley gamely exploits this tension in a narrative that grants the reader sympathy for all its characters — the fearless and hidebound alike.
  — Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• The new format, which will be unveiled to the public on Tuesday, has sparked a debate within the hidebound world of department stores, where change comes at a glacial pace.
  — Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• If walking, for Ekelund, is a process necessary in its own right, O’Mara’s concerns are more prosaic and hidebound.
  — David L. Ulin, New York Times, 12 May 2020
• The hedge fund blames Southwest leaders, portraying them as hidebound and insensitive to changing consumer tastes.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2024