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Example Sentences
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"He's obviously quite young, he's bound to fail. So I'm sure at some point he's going to play an important knock."
From Barron's
Globular clusters themselves are extremely dense and tightly bound by gravity.
From Science Daily
It’s further proof that an award dictated by length needn’t be bound by anything else.
From Los Angeles Times
"He bounded up to me and introduced himself, and I think his words were 'how are you, mate?' I thought 'this guy is wonderfully different, he is an incredible character, full of confidence'."
From BBC
"Programmatic advocacy exceeded reasonable bounds and place the mission, the crew and America's space program at risk in ways that were not fully understood at the time," Isaacman said.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
