Sample Sentences for
bind
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(editor-reviewed)

bind as in:  bind hands, a wound, or a people

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    The glue binds the two layers together.
    binds = holds together
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    The book's binding is coming loose.
    binding = the part of a book that holds the pages together
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    Not one single hair escaped its tight bind.  (source)
    bind = tie up
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    He guided his arm to the Bible and his rubber-like left hand sought contact with the black binding.  (source)
    binding = the part of a book that holds the pages together
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    And Jonathan can be the Good Samaritan who finds him and binds up his wounds.  (source)
    binds = wraps
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    "Oh, that's much easier, thanks, Ron," said Luna, and she began hacking at their bindings again.  (source)
    bindings = things that hold other things together, or wrap or cover or tie something
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    Now sit thou to feast and unbind thy mood freely, Thy war-fame unto men as the mind of thee whetteth.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbind means not and reverses the meaning of bind. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    In order for the toxic compound to be excreted in the urine, it first has to bind with available molecules of glucose or amino acid.  (source)
    bind = unite or connect
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    He healeth the broken hearted, and bindeth up their wounds.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "It bindeth" in older English, today we say "It binds."
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    His fingers brush my wrists and neck as he unbinds my hands and pulls off my gag.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbinds means not and reverses the meaning of binds. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Isn't his unbinding one of the things that signals the beginning of Ragnarok?†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbinding means not and reverses the meaning of binding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    A perfectly good book ruined. Look at that broken binding and those foot marks all over it.  (source)
    binding = what holds book pages together
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    It's only their common goal of staying alive that binds them.  (source)
    binds = holds together
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bind as in:  a binding contract

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It is a binding contract.
binding = constraining (must be obeyed)
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    We agreed to binding arbitration.
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    Bind them up with the other two prisoners!  (source)
    Bind = to constrain in some way -- such as tie up, require, or obligate
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    Did you bind yourself to the Devil's service?  (source)
    bind = connect or obligate
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    Anne figured it out first—that Maxon was coming to see me—because I was always eager to get out of the binding clothes.  (source)
    binding = constraining (tight)
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    An' Candy'll send a hunderd dollars to bind her.  (source)
    bind = obligate
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    The absurd does not liberate; it binds. — ALBERT CAMUS  (source)
    binds = constrains
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    The gun mount pressed against his neck, and countless strands of something were coiled around his body, binding him to the gun mount and the raft.  (source)
    binding = tying
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    Meanwhile we bind him, but in such a way that in case of attack he can be released at once.  (source)
    bind = tie up
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    But I warn you, we have a law that binds us.  (source)
    binds = constrains
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    He had vowed TO BE WITH ME ON MY WEDDING-NIGHT, yet he did not consider that threat as binding him to peace in the meantime, for as if to show me that he was not yet satiated with blood, he had murdered Clerval immediately after the enunciation of his threats.  (source)
    binding = constraining (limiting someone's actions)
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    ...said, as it was of the ancient scribes and Pharisees, "They bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers."  (source)
    bind = to constrain in some way -- such as tie up, require, or obligate
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    The law binds me, John, I cannot budge.  (source)
    binds = constrains
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    They transgressed without fear or scruple, the rules of behaviour that were binding on all others: smoking tobacco under the beadle's very nose, although each whiff would have cost a townsman a shilling; and quaffing at their pleasure, draughts of wine or aqua-vitae from pocket flasks, which they freely tendered to the gaping crowd around them.  (source)
    binding = constraining (restricting actions)
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bind as in:  It put me in a bind.

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When she started to gossip, it put her friend in a bind.
bind = difficult situation
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    The Chinese move puts the U.S. administration in a bind.
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    We owe so much money it has put us in a financial bind.
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    Because of Hegbert's requirement that only seniors perform, the play was in a bind that year.  (source)
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    It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it. It's the bind we were in. We had to have a commander with.... But somebody with that much compassion could never be the killer we needed.  (source)
    bind = difficult situation
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    I'm in a bind.  (source)
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    I'm sorry, Theo, I swear I am, but I'm really in a bind here, we need this money right now, this minute, we really do.  (source)
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    There were several reasons for this: he was well liked, thick-skinned, and good-natured; and, he was always available for a quick legal tip at no charge when one of the mechanics or truck drivers was in a bind.  (source)
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    One afternoon he came to make a courtesy call, and I thought, Well, the man knows James is in a bind now, and he's come to have a look around.  (source)
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    They have dozens of Nathaniels, and while they appreciate my relationship with him, I know I'm putting them in a bind.  (source)
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    He was in a bind: in his mistresses' eyes, he bore the stigma of his love for Tereza; in Tereza's eyes, the stigma of his exploits with the mistresses.  (source)
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    You get in a bind, I come after you.  (source)
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    "The reason I'm calling," she began, "is that I'm kind of in a bind and I could use an extra pair of hands."  (source)
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    Howard's insistence that his horse would not run under more than 130 pounds had put track handicappers in a bind.  (source)
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