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Example sentences for "honour bound"

  • Then how can I, rebellious, break Commandments which my father spake— I ever true and faithful found, And by my word of honour bound?

  • Thou art, in vulgar pleasures drowned, False to thy bond in honour bound.

  • He who is firm and faithful found To friendly ties in honour bound, Will see his name and fame increase And his blest kingdom thrive in peace.

  • Our king Sugríva, ever found True to each bond in honour bound, Will mourn the pledge he vainly gave, And die with him he could not save.

  • The dispute turned solely on the frontier rights of the Dutch, which Pitt and his colleagues believed to be violated by France, and which we were in honour bound to vindicate.

  • Pitt, having promised to support Addington, deemed himself in honour bound to fulfil that pledge.

  • The first in date, In Honour Bound, is at once a condensation and a critical commentary on Scribe's piece, Une Chaine.

  • Great Britain was by solemn treaties in honour bound to the defence of Belgium whose territory had been violated by Germany, the other party to those treaties which she threw to the winds contemptuously calling them "scraps of paper.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honour bound" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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