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Example sentences for "being bound"

  • For raising and maintaining Seamen and others entered on the Terms of being bound to serve as ordered in any such Vessel.

  • The two royal brothers, who had obtained peace from Constantius in the preceding year, being bound by the obligations of that treaty, neither ventured to raise any disturbance, nor indeed to put themselves in motion at all.

  • The Diana went out of the bay in company with us, but parted from us off Point Pinos, being bound to the Sandwich Islands.

  • The brig Catalina came in from San Diego, and, being bound to windward, we both got under way at the same time, for a trial of speed up to Santa Barbara, a distance of about eighty miles.

  • She filled away again, and stood out, being bound up the coast to San Francisco.

  • The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.

  • But he, unable to endure the indignity of being bound, tore a pillar from the arched gateway, and killed with it a great number of his captor's servants.

  • Pitt also proposed that they, the said council, or some others, should be appointed to manage the real and personal estate of the king, being bound at the same time not to alienate or dispose or any part of it, except by lease.

  • Civil Law) Defn: The act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship.

  • The act of binding, or the state of being bound.

  • The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness; as, the ligature of a joint.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being admitted; being aware; being baptized; being born; being brought; being buried; being capable; being carried; being caught; being delivered; being done; being duly; being forced; being found; being generally; being held; being informed; being known; being read; being reconciled; being separated; being still; being used; fashioned house; much liked; must show