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  • We use a special epoxy that creates a strong bond.
    bond = connection (where things are glued together)
  • We bonded when we roommates our first year at college.
    bonded = became close
  • It's like they have a stronger bond or something.   (source)
    bond = emotional connection
  • She was bonded to her planet and its life in a way few people are.   (source)
    bonded = connected
  • In our culture wedding jewelry is a bond between the couple.   (source)
    bond = connection
  • So much for the old movies and the mother-daughter bonding.   (source)
    bonding = forming a close connection
  • No one will discuss these things again, or even acknowledge having ever discussed them at all, but because of it, invisible bonds have been forged.   (source)
    bonds = connections
  • Occasionally he'd make a halfhearted attempt to bond with the kid, but the two had little in common.   (source)
    bond = connect (emotionally)
  • Bonding over shared interests in sports and music, the two became good friends.   (source)
    bonding = forming a close connection
  • He soon discovered, however, what Muir and Thoreau already knew: An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds.   (source)
    bond = connection
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  • Now he understood about animals; and in the moment that the horse turned from the stream and nudged Jonas's shoulder affectionately with its head, he perceived the bonds between animal and human.   (source)
    bonds = connections
  • Mom and I bonded over other things, especially our favorite sport: football.   (source)
    bonded = connected (emotionally)
  • They were both farm girls and had bonded early on.   (source)
    bonded = connected (as friends)
  • But I fear for you young people because you do not understand how strong is the bond of kinship.   (source)
    bond = connection
  • They had shared the bond of being the only two women aboard the Dolphin and the older woman had been sociable and kindly.   (source)
  • The knife I used on him, and on my bonds, will be nearby on the floor where I dropped it, dazed, and walked barefoot, carrying nothing out of the house but his keys—to the car, to the gate—and climbed, still slick with his blood, into his vintage Jaguar and returned like some long-lost faithful pet, straight back home to my husband.   (source)
    bonds = ropes
  • I didn't hear sadness in her voice, and that helped me to break the bonds of terror.   (source)
    bonds = ties or connections
  • The jurors cannot get the impression there was an emotional bond between the two of you.   (source)
    bond = connection
  • But of late his bonds were looser.   (source)
    bonds = restraining ropes
  • Then, taking a long breath and straightening his shoulders, he remarked in a determined voice: "Wonder'ff tell me where there's a gas'line station? " At least a dozen men, some of them little better off than he was, explained to him that wheel and car were no longer joined by any physical bond.   (source)
    bond = connection
  • It's a greater bond than if I were your devoted, but blind supporter.   (source)
  • We shall in future be able to ease his bonds for a few hours each day.   (source)
    bonds = restraining ropes
  • Her spirit sank with the idea that all must have been a delusion, and that, vividly as she had dreamed it, there could be no real bond betwixt the clergyman and herself.   (source)
    bond = connection
  • I was indifferent, therefore, to my school-fellows in general; but I united myself in the bonds of the closest friendship to one among them.   (source)
    bonds = connections
  • I tried to fake a smile, but all I could manage was a feeble upturning of the corners of my mouth— —my stomach was turning at the sight of my father bonding with Assef.†   (source)
  • I was pretty sure this would be the moment of bonding.†   (source)
  • "Pair-bonding at this stage is not encouraged," said Crake, sounding like a guidebook.†   (source)
  • Ali and Kate were bonding over their favorite shades of MAC nail polish, but Hanna couldn't get into it.†   (source)
  • She is given a list of pediatricians, and countless brochures on breast-feeding, and bonding, and immunizing, and samples of baby shampoos and Q-Tips and creams.†   (source)
  • When I bring it up, Haymitch says the last thing President Snow would've wanted was to show Peeta and me--especially me--bonding with other victors in potentially rebellious districts.†   (source)
  • ALBUS: I know, I think it's a bonding thing or something similarly vomit-inducing.†   (source)
  • Bonding†   (source)
  • Psychosexual male bonding in Aaron's Rod (1922).†   (source)
  • As pathetic as it sounds, Marley had become my male-bonding soul mate, my near-constant companion, my friend.†   (source)
  • Instant mommy bonding.†   (source)
  • We clung to our old ways, our old hatreds, and we rejected the very thought of bonding with the dragons or allowing anyone outside our realm to police us.†   (source)
  • Ah, Fuentes, I think we just had a male bonding moment.†   (source)
  • I'd killed and eaten this particular goat on another world, which is the sort of bonding experience you don't forget.†   (source)
  • Instant bonding.†   (source)
  • Luma has even become friendly with Emanuel Ransom, the town curmudgeon, bonding over their shared admiration of Hillary Clinton.†   (source)
  • It's a bonding thing.†   (source)
  • "One year were told bonding is the key, the next that it's birth order.†   (source)
  • Was that what was going on, the mystery factor that was bonding the two of them?†   (source)
  • But if his pregnant wife ate it, did that mean I was breaking a pregnant woman bonding code if I still refused?†   (source)
  • They'd come from different backgrounds and different parts of the state, but marriage, motherhood, and the endless gossip of small-town America were more than enough to keep them chatting regularly on the phone and bonding like long-lost sisters.†   (source)
  • I've been bonding with Dad.†   (source)
  • Marine discipline and the sacrificial bonding of ardent young men was prevailing over concrete, steel, and thick volcanic rock.†   (source)
  • Two monsters bonding to make one.†   (source)
  • Just a little bonding time so that the house didn't feel quite so empty.†   (source)
  • And that I did not want him putting makeup on her face, not when I would never have that bonding moment between a mother and daughter in a bathroom before an elegant night on the town, when I could let her try the eye shadow, a smudge of mascara, pink lipstick.†   (source)
  • Stepping inside such a place with one of my brothers was a fantasy of mine—male bonding.†   (source)
  • Is this some manly bonding thing I can't be a part of?†   (source)
  • Come along, and I'll give you the necessary papers to take to a bonding company."†   (source)
  • It's kind of a First Year tradition, for class bonding," answered Sasha.†   (source)
  • It was a good opportunity for me and Coach to have that bonding experience and to be able to talk about those things that matter most.†   (source)
  • We lingered by a few open doorways, catching random bits of lecture and arguments about Kant and Indonesian history and bonding equivalencies and scansion and King Lear.†   (source)
  • Not the way I understand bonding.†   (source)
  • I waited for you before taking my break, but then I figured you guys might be here, bonding and stuff.†   (source)
  • Andrew's mother and I are bonding.†   (source)
  • This kind of overt inequity in bonding spread its message to the black community.†   (source)
  • The common bond of just being young together in that household was strong enough for that.   (source)
    bond = connection
  • That fall he developed a lasting bond with both the town and Wayne Westerberg.   (source)
  • Addiction treatment seemed to give Mom a sense of purpose, and it gave us something to bond over.   (source)
    bond = connect (emotionally)
  • A bond of sympathy had grown between them as the years had passed.   (source)
    bond = connection
  • I thought I'd bonded with my son more than other mothers; that's what I told myself.   (source)
    bonded = connected (emotionally)
  • Aunt Wee's grief was unjustified, because Mom and Papaw had a special bond.   (source)
    bond = connection (emotional)
  • His arms and legs have been secured to the operating table with bonds that are strong but padded so he won't hurt himself if he struggles.   (source)
    bonds = restraints such as ropes
  • As the Japanese disappeared, soundlessly and without protest, the Negroes entered with their loud jukeboxes, their just-released animosities and the relief of escape from Southern bonds.   (source)
    bonds = restraints
  • I felt a warm sense of sisterhood this morning. Now that we had survived a major rebel attack together, it felt like these small bonds had sealed into something unbreakable.   (source)
    bonds = ties or connections (from shared experiences)
  • Everyone knew then that she would live because her bond with the world of ogbanje had been broken.   (source)
    bond = connection
  • For more than two years, they had exchanged short notes—and even some long letters—mostly discussing editorial adjustments for the prose and art in her books, but the correspondence, written so often in biological phrases blended with poetic descriptions, had become a bond welded in its own language.   (source)
  • In trying to understand McCandless, I inevitably came to reflect on other, larger subjects as well: the grip wilderness has on the American imagination, the allure high-risk activities hold for young men of a certain mind, the complicated, highly charged bond that exists between fathers and sons.   (source)
  • All his life there was only one thing Lev was allowed to believe. It had surrounded him, cocooned him, constricted him with the same stifling softness as the layers of insulation around him now. For the first time in his life, Lev feels those bonds around his soul begin to loosen.   (source)
    bonds = restraints such as ropes
  • It was in the Marine Corps where I first ordered grown men to do a job and watched them listen; where I learned that leadership depended far more on earning the respect of your subordinates than on bossing them around; where I discovered how to earn that respect; and where I saw that men and women of different social classes and races could work as a team and bond like family.   (source)
    bond = connect (emotionally)
  • The bonds that had held his body down were loosened.   (source)
    bonds = ropes
  • Roark knew that the last act of kindness he could offer was to claim no bond.   (source)
    bond = connection
  • It will be contempt, but it will come from her and it will be a bond.   (source)
  • The bonds had loosened themselves.   (source)
    bonds = restraining ropes
  • This was it, thought Keating, this was the bond between them, and the bond was fear, and more, much more than that, but fear was the only recognizable name to give it.   (source)
    bond = connection
  • They drove silently, but there was no bond in their silence now; they were not walking together toward disaster; the disaster had come; their courage did not matter any longer.   (source)
  • She listened emptily to empty words uttered as if the speaker would be insulted by any sign of enthusiastic interest from his listener, as if only boredom were the only bond possible between people, the only preservative of their precarious dignity.   (source)
  • Hast thou enticed me into a bond that will prove the ruin of my soul?   (source)
    bond = binding promise
  • —the people's victim and lifelong bond-slave, as they fancied her,   (source)
    bond = bound to work without wages
  • There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.   (source)
    bonds = connections
  • I heard of the difference of sexes, and the birth and growth of children, how the father doted on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the older child, how all the life and cares of the mother were wrapped up in the precious charge, how the mind of youth expanded and gained knowledge, of brother, sister, and all the various relationships which bind one human being to another in mutual bonds.   (source)
    bonds = connect
  •   "My home is where thou art and where he is. But betray me not!"
      "Wherefore dost thou desire it?" inquired Hester, shrinking, she hardly knew why, from this secret bond.   (source)
    bond = binding promise
  • When the Black Man sees one of his own servants, signed and sealed, so shy of owning to the bond as is the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, he hath a way of ordering matters so that the mark shall be disclosed, in open daylight, to the eyes of all the world!   (source)
    bond = connection
  • I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bonds among the heathen-folk to the southward; and am now brought hither by this Indian to be redeemed out of my captivity.   (source)
    bonds = restraints such as ropes
  • Dad and Stepmother Dearest dragged me and Remy to the house in the Bahamas for 'family bonding."†   (source)
  • I have to leave and she's not even bonding.†   (source)
  • The show ended with a scene of all the nudists sitting around a campfire laughing and bonding.†   (source)
  • The sounds of male bonding and banter continued from the TV set.†   (source)
  • There's a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you.†   (source)
  • Despite everything, I think we do have, if not a bonding, then at least an understanding.†   (source)
  • For a while, when we used to meet up at the old house because we both disliked this new one, we seemed to be bonding a little.†   (source)
  • For instance, racism — or, as they referred to it in Paradice, pseudospeciation — had been eliminated in the model group, merely by switching the bonding mechanism: the Paradice people simply did not register skin colour.†   (source)
  • I tried to sound nonchalant, but secretly I was overjoyed at the prospect of having the new puppy all to myself for a few days of uninterrupted male bonding.†   (source)
  • When we heard it was coming, a few of the guys on the cross-country team thought it would be a good bonding experience if we went down to Wrightsville Beach to have a hurricane party.†   (source)
  • I stood there with my duffel bag and glowered after her, surrounded by a bunch of other girls who clearly didn't want to spend two weeks "bonding" either.†   (source)
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  • US Bonds are considered vary safe, but they will go down in value when interest rates rise.
    bonds = certificates issued by the government that promise to repay a loan with interest
  • Everybody I knew was in the bond business, so I supposed it could support one more single man.   (source)
    bond = (buying and selling) certificates for which a government or corporation pays a specific interest rate for a cash loan for a specific period of time
  • And after the news of Louie's death broke, the film director Cecil B. DeMille showed up to do a radio interview with the family for the Sixth War Bond Drive.   (source)
    bond = certificates for which a government pays a specific interest rate for a cash loan for a specific period of time
  • A bond fund at UBS in Zurich was valued at just over $3 million.   (source)
    bond = a certificate issued by a government or corporation that promises to repay a loan with interest
  • But not checks. Bonds.   (source)
    bonds = loan certificates that entitle the certificate owner to receive future payments for a loan
  • Bearer bonds of various denominations.   (source)
  • Can you deposit the bonds somewhere?   (source)
  • She made her points succinctly, altering the cashiers checks to bearer bonds, payable in dollars, in denominations ranging from a maximum of twenty thousand dollars to a minimum of five.   (source)
  • Her objective was not lost on the attorney; she so complicated the issuing of the bonds that tracing them would be beyond the facilities of most banks or brokers.   (source)
  • A leather attache case was provided by Monsieur Bourne for the bonds and the money; it would be carried by an armed courier who would leave the bank at 2:30 in the afternoon and meet Monsieur Bourne at 3:00 on the Pont Neuf.   (source)
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  • Pardon me, but Monsieur Bourne insists that Monsieur d'Amacourt also include two hundred thousand francs in cash, one hundred thousand to be included with the bonds and one hundred to be held by Monsieur d'Amacourt.   (source)
  • They picked him up when he handed the bonds over the counter.   (source)
  • I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles.   (source)
  • You're selling bonds, aren't you, old sport?   (source)
  • Instead of being the warm centre of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe — so I decided to go East and learn the bond business.   (source)
    bond = (buying and selling) certificates for which a government or corporation pays a specific interest rate for a cash loan for a specific period of time
  • I knew the other clerks and young bond-salesmen by their first names, and lunched with them in dark, crowded restaurants on little pig sausages and mashed potatoes and coffee.   (source)
    bond = certificates for which a government or corporation pays a specific interest rate for a cash loan for a specific period of time
  • I'm a bond man.   (source)
    bond = in the business of buying and selling certificates for which a government or corporation pays a specific interest rate for a cash loan for a specific period of time
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  • Mom was released from jail on bond and prosecuted for a domestic violence misdemeanor.   (source)
    bond = money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
  • Speculation about Williams and his fate came to an abrupt halt after two days when Judge Oliver released him on a $200,000 bond pending appeal.   (source)
    bond = refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
  • Out on bond, awaiting trial.   (source)
  • Right now they can't get a bond set.   (source)
    bond = amount of refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
  • He had been released on a bond furnished by Gail Wynand, and he awaited trial.   (source)
    bond = refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
  • Williams had paid the $600 bond to get him out of jail that time too.   (source)
  • The judge raised his bond to $100,000 and let him go.   (source)
  • Mercer House was his again, no longer held as collateral for his jail bond.   (source)
  • Williams had been taken into custody, charged with murder, and held on $25,000 bond.   (source)
  • Once we book you and relieve you of two hundred dollars for bond, why, you can be on your way.   (source)
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  • They fingerprinted him, booked him for murder, and set bond at $25,000.   (source)
  • "He won't get out on bond, will he, Jake?" asked Bill West.   (source)
  • Jake frowned and said, "A bond for what?"   (source)
    bond = an amount of refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
  • A bond will be set, but it'll probably be too high.   (source)
  • I'd been processed and released—the depersonalized in-and-outing of jail, the bond hearing, the fingerprints and photos, the rotating and the shuffling and the handling; it didn't make me feel like an animal, it made me feel like a product, something created on an assembly line.   (source)
    bond = regarding refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
  • This became clear the day after Jim Williams's conviction, when his lawyers went before Judge Oliver to ask for his release on bond and were curtly turned down.   (source)
    bond = refundable money paid to a court for release from jail prior to trial
  • He had been released on a bond arranged by Jake and others, and he had been cajoled south by his pal Lucien.   (source)
  • Ozzie was explaining that even though the kid was seventeen, he had been caught with three pounds of pot; thus, he could not be released on bond until a judge said so.   (source)
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  • Everyone who works here is bonded.
  • A bonded courier's bad enough, but he's necessary; bank insurance requires him.   (source)
    bonded = insured
  • If ever you met an unbonded dragon, you would not say so.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbonded means not and reverses the meaning of bonded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Twenty-six were set to be joined with Riders; the rest were unbonded.†   (source)
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  • His mother caught him climbing out the window with his snowboard and a plastic tackle box in which he had packed underwear, socks, a fleece ski jacket, and a $100 savings bond his grandfather had given him as a birthday present.†   (source)
  • He and Charles, Jr., are inseparable companions, and I don't think I exaggerate when I say they have equaled the bond I once had with Lucky.†   (source)
  • The girl saw a large sign on the side of a water tower that said BUY U.S. WAR BONDS EVERY PAYDAY.†   (source)
  • The woman gave us five temporary checks to use until our real ones arrived, encouraged us not to make any major purchases for at least six months "while you learn to live with this windfall," and then started talking about the places we could put the money—college savings accounts or mutual funds or bonds or stocks—and I was trying to pay attention to her, but the problem was I wasn't really in the bank.†   (source)
  • The unbreakable bond between my father and his siblings serves as a testimonial that even though their parents lived very short lives, they did something right.†   (source)
  • Our similar family situations had bonded us when we met.†   (source)
  • The Count went out into the bedroom muttering something about his word being his bond and never having cheated at cards or welched on a wager, and then he began to count.†   (source)
  • With his marriage vows he had formed an eternal bond with Clara—even though it meant untying the one that bound him to her.†   (source)
  • Inside a lot of kids had been bringing things up to the altar—drug paraphernalia and stuff like that; they were breaking off their old bonds.†   (source)
  • An unbreakable bond united the crew—for many members, it was the only support system they had.†   (source)
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  • I dropped the sword to the floor and struggled free of the bonds that held my hands together.†   (source)
  • War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too.†   (source)
  • Bonds are negotiable as cash.†   (source)
  • Finally, the jack had opened to its full extent, the rail still only half-free from its ancient bonds.†   (source)
  • He'd found four quarts of bonded whiskey still in the paper bags in which they'd been purchased and he drank a little of it in a glass with water.†   (source)
  • Against all odds, she nurtured a precious family bonded by an intense love.†   (source)
  • The bond connecting us was broken.†   (source)
  • He took home substantial prizes: a new encyclopedia to replace the outdated one, a new writing desk, a cash prize, a savings bond.†   (source)
  • Even though so many of the stories are good, celebrating the bonds of women and family, the bad stories will be the ones that catch the white people's attention.†   (source)
  • Our bond had a peculiar fertility that I was wise enough to appreciate, and also, perhaps, wise enough to appreciate in silence.†   (source)
  • "I doubt that the king would take the word of Adarlan's Assassin as bond."†   (source)
  • A new bond had developed between Owen and Grandmother because of Liberace; they also watched lots of old movies together and encouraged each other's constant comments.†   (source)
  • Annemarie felt a surge of sadness; the bond of their friendship had not broken, but it was as if Ellen had moved now into a different world, the world of her own family and whatever lay ahead for them.†   (source)
  • We bonded through hatred—hatred of the infesteds and their alien masters, sure, but also our fierce, uncompromising, unadulterated hatred of Sergeant Reznik, our rage made all the more intense by the fact that we could never express it.†   (source)
  • To bond.†   (source)
  • It's your own personal relationship with Him; a bond that's as unique as a fingerprint.†   (source)
  • Their shared profession was not going to be a bond.†   (source)
  • Wasn't there supposed to be a maternal bond?†   (source)
  • We have a certain bond, after I spent two days in it during the Great Hydrogen Scare of Sol 37.†   (source)
  • That candle was a marriage bond that was worth more than a Catholic promise not to divorce.†   (source)
  • "The right of Queenstrial is always a joyous event, representing the future of our great kingdom and the bonds that keep us strongly united in the face of our enemies," the king says, addressing the crowd.†   (source)
  • For the past hour, she'd watched Sean bond with every guy there and carefully avoid her.†   (source)
  • We forged bonds with those who lived around us.†   (source)
  • Arrested three months ago for stealing OxyContin from a pharmacy in Old Town with a guy named Dwayne Bordick, twenty-three, Ayer is being held in lieu of bond, the article says, at the Penobscot County Jail in Bangor.†   (source)
  • Now that bond is free to grow in an environment of better conditions.†   (source)
  • Both Gogol and Moushumi are absent from these books, and for the first time all evening he feels a hint of that odd bond that had first drawn them together.†   (source)
  • Maybe they were finally close to breaking the bonds of WICKED forever.†   (source)
  • They were clannish, responding to the harshness and turmoil of their environment by forming tight family bonds and placing loyalty to blood above all else.†   (source)
  • Loose me from these bonds and I will help you.†   (source)
  • Knows the bond I share with Gale.†   (source)
  • Any marriage bond would be too superficial, too transient.†   (source)
  • You work out with guys, you form a bond.†   (source)
  • And without either of them being conscious of it, they began to regain the intimacy, the bond of familiarity, they had once shared.†   (source)
  • It was as if she and her aunt shared a particular bond at those times, as if the magic was still, somehow, alive.†   (source)
  • "We've been hesitant to make bonds with Illea.†   (source)
  • We'd form a deep personal bond, and slowly, without realizing it, I'd become a character in her story, and she in mine.†   (source)
  • They're supposed to bond, and right where he stands there's a chasm a mile wide.†   (source)
  • Hera said she'd been trying to break through her prison bonds for a month.†   (source)
  • Listen," she said, in her gentlest, most hypnotically-soothing voice, "I know that you and your mother had an incredibly close bond.†   (source)
  • He wasn't a pet and I didn't want to bond with him.†   (source)
  • The bond between Fischer and Hall had been cemented back in 1992, when they had bumped into each other on K2, the world's second-highest mountain.†   (source)
  • Our secrets have made us close, bonded us together.†   (source)
  • You're suffering from what humans call Stockholm Syndrome: you have bonded with your captors.†   (source)
  • As cramped as things were, there was a genuine family bond.†   (source)
  • There was a bond between them now, welded in the brotherhood of battle and tempered by the loyalty Murtagh had shown.†   (source)
  • There seems to be a special bond between people from the state.†   (source)
  • The men on the Corner were honorable drinking men, with their own code of ethics: A man's word was his bond, you never insulted anyone's woman, you didn't drink from the same bottle as a man who confessed to oral sex with women, you never cuffed the dice during crap games, and if you pulled out a gun-which you shouldn't do-you'd better use it before it got used on you.†   (source)
  • You and I share a common bond.†   (source)
  • I'm bonded with UniWeb and everything having to do with a client falls under the Privacy Protection Act.†   (source)
  • They don't have a very strong bond — he's only with them for convenience.†   (source)
  • "But it's not hard to bond over 'Will you pray for my family?'†   (source)
  • The baby grouse—and there isn't anything cuter than a grouse chick—bonded with hawk and thought she was their mother.†   (source)
  • He lost $2,300 owed to him for three years of service, along with all the money he had invested in Confederate bonds at the beginning of the war.†   (source)
  • Burnham posted bond the next morning.†   (source)
  • Once, again, the act says, "I'm with you, I share this moment with you, I feel a bond of community with you.†   (source)
  • Annie was two years older and they'd roomed together for three semesters in college, in an ugly building made habitable through their extraordinary bond, something like friends, something like sisters or cousins who wished they were siblings and would have reason never to be apart.†   (source)
  • Only bond we got between us is dogs, but at least that's somethin'.†   (source)
  • The National Socialist Bond, the quisling organization of Holland, grew larger and bolder with each month of occupation.†   (source)
  • I need somebody on my bond side.†   (source)
  • Hammermill Bond is a good brand; so is Triad Modem.†   (source)
  • If I had any wish, even at this late hour, to somehow acquit myself, I would say that the bond between Abdullah and his little sister was an ordinary one.†   (source)
  • Zero pensions, zero savings, zero stocks and bonds.†   (source)
  • All three of them bonded by the certain, separate knowledge that they had loved a man to death.†   (source)
  • The blue-haired boy hung in his bonds, stunned and gaping.†   (source)
  • My three friends didn't know each other well, but strong bonds formed quickly.†   (source)
  • Nan, who had bonded quickly with both Sarah and Vicki, had distracted herself by helping with little J. J., and then getting her own children ready for their trip back to Portland.†   (source)
  • The demon thrashed against his bonds, settling the wheel more firmly into the coals.†   (source)
  • School Superintendent Seymour is very high on sports as a community bond.†   (source)
  • Six months after meeting Nathaniel, my bond with him is deeper and so is my desire to get on with my life.†   (source)
  • I gag, and throw myself against the bonds holding me to the table.†   (source)
  • I was supposed to feel privileged to be out on bond: I had stayed put even when it was clear I was going to be arrested, so I was deemed no flight risk.†   (source)
  • The only possible bond was something as improbable and fickle as love, if there was any, and in their case there was none when they married, and when they were on the verge of inventing it, fate had done nothing more than confront them with reality.†   (source)
  • It is a bond between us.†   (source)
  • You could see bits of skin starting to bond, and soft red bits peeping up from underneath.†   (source)
  • A doting aunt who looked for any opportunity to bond with her niece and nephew, Jenny was dying to go.†   (source)
  • In the following issue Arthur printed a public service advertisement urging islanders to buy war bonds.†   (source)
  • Imagine now that one of the cave dwellers manages to free himself from his bonds.†   (source)
  • I counted out three hundred and fifty sheets of corrasable bond from my mother's stock in the hall closet, secreted away under a pile of old felt hats and clothes brushes and woolen scarves.†   (source)
  • SAEED AND NADIA WERE LOYAL, and whatever name they gave their bond they each in their own way believed it required them to protect the other, and so neither talked much of drifting apart, not wanting to inflict a fear of abandonment, while also themselves quietly feeling that fear, the fear of the severing of their tie, the end of the world they had built together, a world of shared experiences in which no one else would share, and a shared intimate language that was unique to them,…†   (source)
  • An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime.†   (source)
  • She snaps out her phone, calls somebody she calls Q, like James freaking Bond, tells her, as it turns out from the look I got of Q in the doorway—very nice, by the way—to wake up, she'll be there in five minutes.†   (source)
  • Probably another war bond drive.†   (source)
  • Each bond was worth the equivalent of one million kronor.†   (source)
  • That sense of union I felt in the darkness of the elevator, that strong bond between our hearts, never came back again.†   (source)
  • He lifted her, slashed her bonds away, put her on her feet, started to pull her along.†   (source)
  • Her brother was a bond trader in the World Trade Center.†   (source)
  • She apparently did not understand the depths of the mother-child bond.†   (source)
  • She apparently felt that her status as Richard's agent created a bond of intimacy between herself and Cass; who, helplessly and miserably mesmerized, and handicapped by the volume of Miss Wales' voice and the razorlike distinctness of her syllables, trotted obediently behind her into the bedroom where coats and hats were to be deposited and where the women could repair their makeup.†   (source)
  • The bonds of friendship and loyalty with other prisoners count for nothing with the authorities.†   (source)
  • It seems to me that the bonds between us must be visible.†   (source)
  • The woman had broken loose from her bonds and was crying out more loudly than ever: "Look at the fire!†   (source)
  • Our bond.†   (source)
  • I try to stand and scream through the gag, straining at the bonds around my wrists.†   (source)
  • Though she was reluctant to admit it, Luma's bond with the 13s was deeper than that with the older boys.†   (source)
  • Or because they might bond; Paul imagined him reading it in some manual for parents.†   (source)
  • As the youngest of the four, she had had the least chance to bond to the Island before our abrupt exile almost a decade before.†   (source)
  • His word was his bond.†   (source)
  • Erik Night and I have a bond that you'll never understand.†   (source)
  • I like Bitsy Bonds.†   (source)
  • Being scared together created a great bond among boys, and being scared of each other created a great bond in prison.†   (source)
  • Nothing in this world is stronger than the bond that can be formed by a family.†   (source)
  • It's amazing how misery can instantly bond folks.†   (source)
  • " "Did he keep his bond?"†   (source)
  • Meena and Kuduz lived near each other in Forbesgunge, and the incident created a bond between them.†   (source)
  • 8 million in government bonds, a fortune augmented by $2 million more and a sprawling Maryland property when he turned twenty-one in 1933.†   (source)
  • The company commander and I developed a bond—he'd had the same Search and Rescue job as an air crewman that I wanted.†   (source)
  • She might think it bonds us together as misfits, and I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.†   (source)
  • She and Michelle had talked about and prayed for the widows of the men killed in June, and though she didn't know any of them personally, the SEAL community was an extended family, so she felt a bond with and a deep sadness for the families.†   (source)
  • My fourth brother, Cunsang, who always had a special bond with her, began to sleep in the same bed to watch over her.†   (source)
  • But it was his experience as expedition doctor during a 1982 American attempt on Pakistan's Gasherbrum II that forged a bond between the doctor and the nurse.†   (source)
  • He won a war bond.†   (source)
  • The mental bonds, however, seem as strong as ever, and the piece of me that recognizes that knows I might be making a very big mistake.†   (source)
  • You'd have to say Will and I bonded in the next week, over Dad's credit card.†   (source)
  • These were known as Bond Tours.†   (source)
  • Then he began to struggle violently against his bonds.†   (source)
  • We had that life experience bond that neither of us ever wanted.†   (source)
  • The further you go, the less easy will it be to withdraw; yet no oath or bond is laid on you to go further than you will.†   (source)
  • We were turned down for the Home Defense training plan but we're doing Red Cross work, buying War Savings bonds, logging for the war industries and shipyards, benefit concerts—the regular stuff.†   (source)
  • How it had become a sort of bond.†   (source)
  • Do you mean to tell me there was no bond of love between you and the vampire who made you?'†   (source)
  • Pedro Tercero proceeded to untie his bonds, which had been wrapped around his wrists to keep him from pounding on the door.†   (source)
  • You'll have parades in your honor and make speeches to raise money for war bonds.†   (source)
  • We swear a bond.†   (source)
  • It was said to be a powerful talisman, the broken bond of a broken heart.†   (source)
  • Their bond, she decided, was both more and less than a traditional romance.†   (source)
  • There was a strong bond among us students.†   (source)
  • He bit me when we were eight—we bonded.†   (source)
  • He gave me the owl and he said that the owl was my spirit, my bond to the time and harmony of the universe—†   (source)
  • True, he would rather have slept by himself, but the marriage bed is still the symbol of the marriage bond, and symbols, as we know, are inviolable.†   (source)
  • Long-term savers may also be interested in a new stepped-rate bond which requires a minimum of £5,000.†   (source)
  • We had a special bond.†   (source)
  • On one hand, music was this common bond between Mia and me, and me being an all-rock guy had to be part of her attraction.†   (source)
  • It's only natural that we form this bond.†   (source)
  • The stars came out and time went slowly on — imagine how slowly — while that last King of Narnia stood stiff and sore and upright against the tree in his bonds.†   (source)
  • You gotta see how small they look next to our boys," she said as she finished the draft and pulled out the single sheet of bond paper.†   (source)
  • Hundred proof bonded whiskey flowing all in the gutters.†   (source)
  • This piece of wood is as wide as bloody Bond Street to a sailor!†   (source)
  • Bond Street shops were thought superior to those of Paris.†   (source)
  • It was one of the most complicated cases he'd ever worked on, involving bonds worth billions of dollars being shuffled endlessly through a maze of companies across three continents.†   (source)
  • She needed less than ten minutes to free her right hand, much less to slip the bonds on the left.†   (source)
  • We are not superheroes, but we all share a common bond in serving something greater than ourselves.†   (source)
  • If they don't appear, the court issues a bench warrant for the truant party and you forfeit your bond.†   (source)
  • That is why I want to forge new bonds with Dublin.†   (source)
  • Max pleaded, straining against his bonds.†   (source)
  • The whole team began to bond and was working extremely hard individually and together.†   (source)
  • Its flowers were government bonds.†   (source)
  • He always treated them with tenderness, as if a bond existed between them.†   (source)
  • The bond between Jack and Bobby Kennedy became tighter than ever during the Cuban missile crisis, even as Lyndon Johnson once again stumbled.†   (source)
  • I had friends who had railroad bonds.†   (source)
  • There is a bond of honor among the members never to reveal their membership, not even to their wives and family.†   (source)
  • The bond the two of us had created during the war on Denduron was stronger than I realized.†   (source)
  • He found Grabeau in the dark, gave him the nail, and showed him how he had loosened his bonds.†   (source)
  • Man's ethical behavior should be effectively grounded on compassion, nurture, and social bonds.†   (source)
  • It was actually kind of cool to walk up there (amid the applause) and claim my award (a nice plaque with my name on it) along with a two hundred dollar savings bond that goes toward college tuition—and, here's the very best part, my short story will be published in a national teen literary magazine within the next year.†   (source)
  • I found myself speaking of a completeness, the unitary bond of a daughter and father.†   (source)
  • And she and I have a bond strong enough that it hardly matters where we are put, for we have never really parted.†   (source)
  • "bursting the bonds of tyranny," and the like, may come across to this post-Freudian age as mawkish posturing, romantic sentimentalism, hollow platitudes.†   (source)
  • In Auburn, William H. Seward, later Lincoln's Secretary of State, was one of the first men to sign the bond that had to be posted.†   (source)
  • The two of us had a very special bond, you know.†   (source)
  • Feudal System: Local Bonds†   (source)
  • The celestial dome seemed polished by the chill breeze that had blown since sunset, and Bruenor felt as though he had escaped the bonds of earth.†   (source)
  • We have a special, special bond between us.†   (source)
  • TWELVE THOUSAND FROM STARLIGHT STATION BONDED TO STARLIGHT STATION BONDED, PANDORA, 6/12/58.†   (source)
  • Miss Christian is incarcerated without bond.†   (source)
  • He gave her a lot of information which she carefully typed on heavy bond paper and filed away with all of her other historical information.†   (source)
  • They would need help here on Earth and might share voting stock—though they would prefer to sell bonds and retain control.†   (source)
  • Like countless companies during that chaotic time, Standard couldn't raise enough money to pay off the bonds it had already sold.†   (source)
  • He'd heard she was seeing a man quite seriously, a bond trader, of all things.†   (source)
  • Somehow she and I figured out how to communicate, and we bonded.†   (source)
  • Free oxygen tended to bond to just about anything, which meant that reducing atmospheres, with all the free oxygen bound up, were bound to be common.†   (source)
  • The wife should obey the husband; this, according to the Three Bonds of Confucianism.†   (source)
  • We had lost males before, cousins and uncles who were conscripted into armies or bonded as apprentices, who are almost as lowly as slave girls.†   (source)
  • They were all alike, the old, tied by a common bond.†   (source)
  • "No," he decided, "we don't cash any bonds.†   (source)
  • The bond the probate court had had her post was perhaps their evaluation in dollars of how much did stand in her way.†   (source)
  • There had been suddenly established a bond between Morris and me, and I relaxed, filled with inquisitive zeal.†   (source)
  • It was what we shared, it made the strongest bond between us and the strongest tension.†   (source)
  • It's like a large version of the old Bond sign on Times Square.†   (source)
  • I envied him for the ways in which he was freer than I would ever be, though I knew he bore bonds of a sort that I had never known.†   (source)
  • There had always been a bond between the two boys - a mutual liking and understanding - and it was because of this that Peter now realized the bush boy was dying.†   (source)
  • The court fixes bond at five hundred dollars.†   (source)
  • The salesman assured her that Bond's famous tailors would adjust the trousers without difficulty.†   (source)
  • "He approves of the mingling of the peoples and their bonds of union": that was what the words meant, and again they were very old words, from the days of ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • The wiser a man grows, the fewer his iron bonds.†   (source)
  • The corporation will issue up to $5 billion in energy bonds, and I especially want them to be in small denominations so that average Americans can invest directly in America's energy security.†   (source)
  • They knew the slinking bourgeois breed, the ordinary holders of cheap government bonds, and they spoke to them without the slightest pity and with Mephistophelean smiles, as to petty thieves caught in the act.†   (source)
  • More especially we pray for thy holy Church universal; that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.†   (source)
  • I tried and failed to imagine her, this woman who could after so many years renounce altogether her husband, break the bond that must surely have existed despite his long absences.†   (source)
  • But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.†   (source)
  • To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.†   (source)
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  • The visit was on Saturday, 8 December, and the whole thing was like something out of a James Bond movie.   (source)
    bond = fictitious spy in movies
  • Nobody is more devoted to Farshid's decision-making prowess than my parents, and Farshid, like James Bond, has never turned down an assignment.   (source)
  • Put him under a peace bond?   (source)
    bond = a court order that requires someone to provide a financial guarantee that they will be on good behavior and keep the peace
  • It was like watching some corny old spy DVD, James Bond or something.   (source)
    bond = fictitious spy in movies
  • Starring Mark Watney as …. probably Q. I'm no James Bond.   (source)
  • He'd played all kinds of roles —a Latino teacher in a tough L.A. school, a dashing Israeli spy in an action-adventure blockbuster, even a Syrian terrorist in a James Bond movie.   (source)
  • "Write your locker number down," the guy at the register said, "and your combination too, and keep it in a safe place," but I'd already memorized both —I'd seen enough James Bond movies that I knew the drill —and the minute I was outside tossed the paper in the trash.   (source)
  • Pierce Brosnan, best James Bond ever   (source)
  • "Man," Big Larry whined, "you got too much of that James Bond stuff in your head."   (source)
  • I chose intelligence—I naively thought I'd end up like James Bond.   (source)
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  • The place feels like the set of an early James Bond movie, with men in jumpsuits driving little electric vans from one brightly lit cavern to another.   (source)
  • He thought it wonderfully ironic that hundreds of years later when Ian Fleming created James Bond, he gave Bond the same code name.   (source)
  • "That's the James Bond part," Vicky says, and they all giggle.   (source)
    bond = a last name
  • Thor—the Batman or James Bond of the gods—has once again conquered the forces of evil.   (source)
    bond = fictitious spy in movies
  • When James Bond started popping up on the trendsetter radar, Lambesis hired the director of the James Bond movies to film a series of commercials, all of which featured Airwalk-clad characters making wild escapes from faceless villains.   (source)
  • I'd imagine I was James Bond meeting beautiful older women at the roulette tables and walking arm in arm up to their rooms where something dangerously exotic might happen.   (source)
  • At this point, I was ready for almost anything—some kind of James Bond villain's high-tech lair seemed appropriate.   (source)
  • What really happened was like something out of a James Bond movie.   (source)
  • Stealing a sheet cake from the dining hall became an operation worthy of James Bond.   (source)
  • She said she was surrounded by Tarzans and Robin Hoods and James Bonds.   (source)
  • But what's with the James Bond spy stuff ?   (source)
  • The topics range in subject matter from a Chairman Mao biography to James Bond novels.   (source)
  • Then there was that one time you and I, Mark, hopped the commuter train to catch that James Bond flick.   (source)
  • And the romance— tales of kings and priest hunters, Cromwellians and James Bond.   (source)
  • They felt this subcutaneous aching to let everyone know they were a spook, they couldn't help it, it was like some charge or vanity of the culture, a la James Bond and Maxwell Smart.   (source)
  • Which I understand is the plot of the next James Bond thriller in which the villain is short, bald and wears a goatee.   (source)
  • ' 'How James Bond Destroyed My Husband, by Mrs. Ian Fleming.   (source)
  • Knowing that Mr. Radley's word was his bond, the judge was glad to do so.   (source)
    bond = trustworthy binding agreement
  • Maureen hums the Bond theme song (I think), and Rose makes a gun with her fingers.   (source)
    bond = a last name
  • None of the James Bonds took off their shirts enough for us to decide who had the best chest, but I think probably Timothy Dalton.   (source)
    bonds = fictitious spy in movies
  • In later years, I sometimes wondered exactly what made Jem do it, what made him break the bonds of "You just be a gentleman, son," and the phase of self-conscious rectitude he had recently entered.   (source)
    bonds = constraints
  • "Six years in England," I muttered, "and she thinks she's James Bond."   (source)
    bond = fictitious spy in movies
  • I bought a box set of James Bond movies, some Clint Eastwood, John Wayne—I love John Wayne.   (source)
  • Live Another Sol would be an awesome name for a James Bond movie. checked up on the rover.   (source)
  • Would James Bond collect unemployment while also working?   (source)
  • Once there I parked my bike and watched James Bond three times in a row before sneaking into the other shows.   (source)
  • After seeing this movie, the character of James Bond became etched in my mind, much in the same way as Superman had years earlier.   (source)
  • We were able to definitively determine that Pierce Brosnan was the skinniest James Bond, Sean Connery the hairiest, and Roger Moore the most tan.   (source)
  • Paul's parents had a 16mm camera, so Paul decided to make a James Bond-style movie, casting me as the lead actor.   (source)
  • ...so Lilly and I made this huge vat of popcorn smothered in butter and climbed into her parents' giant canopy bed and watched all the James Bond movies in a row.   (source)
  • Then Michael sat down to watch the movies with us, and in the interest of science, Lilly asked him which Bond girls were most attractive to him, the blonds who always needed James Bond to rescue them or the brunettes who were always pulling guns on him, and Michael said he couldn't resist a girl with a weapon, which got us started on his two favorite TV shows of all time, Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.   (source)
  • While Larry gazed at the girls in bikinis, I fidgeted in my seat, waiting impatiently for James Bond to make his next narrow escape from death while at the same time saving the world from doom.   (source)
  • Before a new James Bond movie or a sequel to a film like Jaws came out, a film company would hire Dresner to summarize the plot and then ask people whether they wanted to see the movie.   (source)
  • But now I know that just because a guy sounds like James Bond doesn't mean he's necessarily going to ACT like him.   (source)
  • Kennedy is a man fond of spy novels—James Bond is a personal favorite—and enchanted by the cloak-and-dagger world of undercover agents.   (source)
  • "My room doesn't have no James Bond in no …. thong."   (source)
  • What not-on-drugs Greg would have said: "Yeah, Earl prefers his James Bond posters naked."   (source)
  • This was a line from Hello, Good-Die, our James Bond parody in which everyone is actually a sock puppet.   (source)
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