How to Use bound up in a Sentence

bound up

adjective

• And here’s the thing: The large, ineluctable past cannot be simply be bound up tight with the iron bands of a gag order.
  — Howard Blum, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• All of that was bound up and burst free in Self’s moment at the buzzer.
  — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
• For us, this place was bound up in our past and future.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2022
• But maybe the magic of The Matrix was always bound up in that thrill of the whoa.
  — Adam Sternbergh, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
• It is bound up with witchcraft, the underworld, night-time and the far side of the Moon.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
• And the yellow celestial orb looks like it is bound up in the stitching of the stars.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
• For many of our nation's warfighters, the sacred is bound up with the pain.
  — Shauna Springer, CNN, 4 July 2020
• What lessons, if any, are bound up with the uncertain future of the NRAO?
  — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2021
• All of these questions are bound up in our connection to the land.
  — Niema Jordan, Essence, 6 Apr. 2021
• Not least, the idea of the soul is bound up with our search for identity or selfhood.
  — TheWeek, 28 Mar. 2020
• Just then, one of the football players breaks out of the shed closet and he's been bound up, but by who?
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 8 June 2020
• We are bound up in the passions of the moment as well as the heartbreak of the suffering around us.
  — John Baldoni, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• That his fate — his party’s, his country’s — would be bound up in the balled fists of a 71-year-old chaos agent?
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2018
• But whole regional economies are bound up in coal, oil, and gas.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2021
• The ruling is now bound up in court and has not yet taken effect.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• The story of Manchester City and the Sheikh Mansour takeover is bound up in irony.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Much of the movie’s wit is bound up in its serial escapades.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2020
• On our younger Earth, for instance, oxygen was bound up in rocks.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2022
• No, my love for the show was always bound up in its ridiculousness.
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 13 Mar. 2018
• Horses are bound up in the very core of the genre, an ancient equine entwinement.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
• That participation is bound up in the drive to have fun and make art, too, of course.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 June 2024
• This is a story bound up in legend as well as fact, but there is plenty of fact.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
• But those wounds can be bound up only once the threat has been defeated.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2019
• May his soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life and may his memory be for a blessing.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• At a time of such angry division, what can bind up our wounds?
  — Nate Hochman, National Review, 25 July 2019
• The story of computing is bound up with Intel and Moore’s law.
  — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 3 July 2019
• The power of the movie has always been unusually bound up with the story of how it was made.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• My own health became bound up in the health of my community.
  — Jonathan Cohen, STAT, 29 Mar. 2021
• But love them or hate them, our past and our future is bound up with these little hustlers.
  — National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• Their destiny is bound up with that of the global economy.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024