How to Use bound up in a Sentence

bound up

adjective
Definition of bound upnext
  • 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
  • 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
  • And because much of the stock market is bound up in the same feverish A.I.-driven stock frenzy, the message is broadly true.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Silence is bound up in what the books portray as an extraordinary closeness between the Biden siblings, one that borders on the telepathic.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023

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