bound for

Example Sentences

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Beside Grant, who is bound for the Portland Cascade, there will be 12 other former Bruins sprinkled among the league’s six rosters.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

It also earned 28-year-old Salam a place on the Observer's list of the best debut novelists of 2026, with the paper saying "his raucous, wildly inventive prose is bound for a much bigger audience".

From BBC • May 22, 2026

The Airbus A321, bound for Los Angeles, was carrying 224 passengers and seven crew members, according to Frontier.

From Barron's • May 9, 2026

Honor 25 was carrying 18,500 barrels of oil bound for Mogadishu.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

I tried it once and barely escaped when the train suddenly pulled out, bound for Ohio.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam