tie that binds
Example Sentences
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The tie that binds the Oscar curse and our assumptions of what the roles an actor chooses after their first Oscar nomination should look like is much shorter than it may initially seem.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026
Loyalty to family is admirable, but limiting yourself to just one bank’s brood of credit cards may be a tie that binds you up.
From Washington Times • Apr. 23, 2020
Williams is the tie that binds them after spending the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons with Washington before returning to Carolina.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2019
"It could be a tie that binds, if the ownership group get their feet entrenched in the community," he said by telephone from Vancouver.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2015
They regard with indifference every tie that binds them to their contemporaries, or to posterity.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
