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Example sentences for "bind"

Lexicographically close words:
bimetallists; bin; bina; binaries; binary; binde; binder; binderies; binders; bindery
  1. Meanwhile the four other Queens came to her, and they said, "Here it is the custom before a child is born to bind its mother's eyes with a handkerchief that she may not see it just at first.

  2. In the matter of the corn supply, Roumania was to bind herself to deliver her agricultural produce to the Central Powers for a certain number of years.

  3. After a lengthy discussion we agreed to bind ourselves to the following policy: (1) So long, as the determination made at the conference in London, i.

  4. I believe it," said Ennasuite; "for those who bind others together in marriage, are so well able to tie the knot that nought but death can destroy it.

  5. At this both mother and daughter were as greatly astonished as might be, and forthwith they called their servants to seize him and bind him fast till the morning, nor did any of his excuses or fine speeches avail him aught.

  6. This is the disadvantage of which the poet had already complained: How can he show his manhood, when you bind him To box, like boys, with one hand tied behind him?

  7. How can he show his manhood, if you bind him To box, like boys, with one hand tied behind him?

  8. However, he would see what the lad was fit for, and bind him apprentice to some honest tradesman or other, provided he would behave for the future as became him.

  9. Oh, I believe it; but listen--when you are in London, you will discover that love promises bind not your honour.

  10. The power of eminent domain being an inherent element of sovereignty, it cannot be divested out of the State or abridged by contract or treaty so as to bind future legislatures.

  11. But he was honest and true, and cognizant of the subtile links that bind ages together, and saw how every event affects all the future.

  12. The Lord commands by the same prophet, “Bind up the testimony, seal the law among My disciples.

  13. At the time when God is preparing to break the shackles of ignorance and superstition, then it is that Satan works with greatest power to enshroud men in darkness, and to bind their fetters still more firmly.

  14. Many are the ways by which Satan works through human influence to bind his captives.

  15. On the first day of the next month, Bhadon, the women and girls take these out, throw the earth and manure into water, and distribute the plants to their male friends, who bind them in their turbans and about their dress.

  16. The upper portion of his body is said to have come to the surface at Mukhar Bind in Nepal, where he is worshipped as Pasupatinatha.

  17. An Italian charm directs, "When you enter any city, collect before the gate as many hairs as you will which may lie on the road, saying to yourself that you do this to remove your headache, and bind one of the hairs to your head.

  18. Bind him, I'll have him made a public scorn.

  19. The Colonel is kind and thoughtful, He has done the best that he can, And they will not bind or blind me-- I shall meet death like a man.

  20. His white hair streams, his swol'n beard big with showers; Mists bind his brows, rain from his bosom pours.

  21. In these stanzas a pair of long lines bind together the first and second parts of the composition, just as the short lines do in the original rime couée.

  22. So let the North and the South together bury the dead animosities of the past, take the corpse of bitter falsehood, the prolific mother of prejudice and hatred, bind it with the cords of patriotism and sink it into the ocean of oblivion.

  23. Or if avengers more than human haunt there, Take they what shape they list, savage or heavenly, They shall make answer to me, though my heart's blood Should be the spell to bind them.

  24. If I'm in aught to bind myself to them, They too must bind themselves to me.

  25. All bands are loosed-- 95 Loosed all the bands, that link the officer To his liege Emperor, all that bind the soldier Affectionately to the citizen.

  26. Rather hope I 5 To bind it nearer still and faster to me.

  27. Be on your guard, All think not as I think; and there are many Who still hold with the Court--yes, and they say That those stolen signatures bind them to nothing.

  28. The counterfeited paper--the omission Of that particular clause, so full of meaning, Does it not prove, that they would bind us down To nothing good?

  29. Many, it seems, love this Red Eve for her high spirit, and are friends to the de Cressis, an open-handed race who know how to bind folk to them.

  30. Yet I think it most unlikely that any one who can buy or beg a horse to ride away on should stay in this old city just now, unless indeed, the laws of his order bind him to do so that he may minister to the afflicted.

  31. There are often delays and terms for certain payments, and bondsmen who intervene and bind themselves, but always with usurious and excessive profits and interests.

  32. These Islands, and not Japan, or Hongkong will bind the East with the West.

  33. They believed her, they thanked her, but they would not let her ring the bell; they said she had better not bind herself in any way either to themselves or to Lady Cecilia.

  34. Lawyers are such provoking wretches, with their fast bind fast find.

  35. To bind the legs and arms of the Frenchman, and to gag his mouth, was the work of a few moments.

  36. As soon as we see you we will throw you a rope; bind it round your waist, and we will draw you up.

  37. They threw him a rope, which they directed him to bind round him.

  38. These were to bind the logs of his raft together.

  39. Then he sat down on the ground and after taking a roll of stout cord from his pocket--which seemed to be full of all sorts of things--he proceeded to bind the flat piece of bark to the bottom of his good foot, over the leather sole.

  40. Now hear the oath I propose, and to which I bind you.

  41. Without relaxing the ties which at present bind together church and state in harmonious coalition and union, I would gradually confiscate the revenues of the one for the increasing necessities of the other.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bind" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adjoin; afterthought; ally; anchor; applique; apply; apprentice; article; associate; attach; band; bandage; bar; belt; bend; bind; block; blockade; bond; border; bound; brace; bracket; bridle; bundle; button; caulk; cause; cement; chain; charm; chink; choke; cinch; clog; clutch; combine; commit; compel; complication; confirm; connect; constrain; contract; cork; correlate; couple; cover; crunch; dam; delay; detention; dilemma; dress; drive; edge; embarrassment; embroider; enforce; engage; enslave; equate; fasten; fastener; fetter; fill; force; foul; frame; fringe; fuse; gird; girdle; girth; glue; gum; halt; hamper; handcuff; have; hem; hindrance; hobble; holdup; hole; identify; imbroglio; impel; indenture; interim; jam; join; knit; knot; lace; lacing; lag; lagging; lap; lash; leash; line; link; list; lock; make; manacle; march; margin; mess; mix; moor; morass; moratorium; obligate; oblige; obstruct; obstruction; pack; parallel; pass; paste; pause; peg; perplexity; picket; pickle; pinch; pinion; pledge; plight; plug; predicament; purl; quagmire; quicksand; relate; reprieve; require; respite; restrain; restrict; retardation; rim; ring; rope; scrape; secure; seize; sewing; shackle; side; skirt; slough; slowdown; slowness; solder; spile; splice; spot; squeeze; stanch; stay; stench; stew; stick; stop; stoppage; stopper; stopple; strait; straits; strap; stuff; suspension; swamp; swathe; tack; tape; tether; tie; trammel; trim; trouble; truss; undertake; unify; verge; wait; wed; weld; wire; wrap


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    binding force; binding posts