How To Use Bound up In A Sentence

One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today. Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House
In this crucible I have mixed together just one ounce of sugar and one and one-eighth ounces of solidified oxygen, solidified by the force of chemical affinity and bound up in a white salt called chlorate of potash. Religion and Chemistry
The spies on both sides are pretty louche characters, and espionage is portrayed as intimately bound up with military and business interests.
The activity, or appetition, that Leibniz regards as characterizing the monads is intimately bound up with his Principle of Sufficient Reason. Continental Rationalism
He said vitrified radioactive materials would be bound up in glass or other depositories and would not be easily released.

Linguix Browser extension

Fix your writing
on millions of websites

Get Started
For Free Watch how it works

He was too bound up in his own problems to listen to any of mine.
A most sacred obligation was bound up with a most atrocious crime.
Which notwithstanding being first allowed for private devotion, they were by little and little brought into the use of the church, _permitted rather than allowed_ to be sung before and after sermons; afterwards printed and bound up with the Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Human rights in general and the right to communicate in particular are bound up with the notion of democracy.
The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse, she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.
But it moves guilt from being a moral issue, bound up in rigid rules and regulations, to being an ethical problem, complex and flexible in relation to the other person and what may be considered their due. Agatha Christie and Guilt « Tales from the Reading Room
The doctrine of precedent is bound up with the need for a reliable system of law reporting.
Our sense of the Depression may be bound up with the tragic social realism of Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'.
The style was bound up with a very unclear theory of invisible rays, in some ways analogous to the ‘lines of force’ that were postulated by the Futurists.
The history of doppelgängers and doubles, you see, is intimately bound up with human mortality and the origins of image making.
This must be one of the few parts of the world where wine, walking and sea air are bound up with the hoot of the whistle and the hiss of the brakes.
They were then driven to finding strange women, and this was the origin of the exogamy which is so closely bound up with totemism. Warranted Christian Belief
I wouldn't want to overstress this, but, in a way, it's bound up with the increased unionisation of the BBC.
bound up in her teaching
It is an experience that is bound up with the character and lifestyle of the expectant mother. Caring for your Unborn Child
The energy is bound up in the cellulose (especially the hemicellulose), which has to be freed from the inert lignin and then converted into sugars (a process called, naturally enough, saccharification), which can then be fermented into ethanol. Spinning straw into liquid gold
My fate was bound up with hers.
Economic progress is closely bound up with educational development.
The Royal Family and the Army are inextricably bound up by tradition and personal links.
So morning warms to broad noon, and hunger makes it dinner-time, and the young kinsmen who have strolled abroad come home, one of them with his hand bound up in a white rag that has drops of blood on it, for he has picked a quarrel in the street and steel has been out, as usual, though no one has been killed, because the 'bargello' and his men were in sight, down there near the Orsini's theatre-fortress. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
The principle of aristocracy is irradicably bound up in the Arabian social economy. Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
There are a number of complex issues bound up with this particular matter, ontological and epistemological, practical as well as theoretical.
¶ And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to A'i, they did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; and old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy. Joshua 9.
All our limitations are bound up in our intellectual mind with its boundaries and imperfections and its tendency to emotional distortion.
The rush to remove Estrada is bound up with broader issues than the accusations of corruption or with the moral condemnations of his own self-confessed drinking, gambling and womanising.
The concept of nationhood is, I think, inherently bound up with the concept of national defense.
Pudding (Hanswurst) twice removed; and Kasperl is as intimately bound up in the German nature as his cousin Punch in the English. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
One reason is that our image of her art is so bound up with its first clamorous appearance.
Similarly, the drive to topple God from his throne (or decentre him as a universal referent for all knowledge) is closely bound up with the emergence of freedom as a key political value in Liberalism.
Sir James Frazer, writing in the early 20th century, noted that ‘even in Europe many people still believe that a person's destiny is more or less bound up with that of his navel-string or afterbirth.’
What seems to link all these fantastic beliefs and customs with the story of the dog and the mandrake is the fact that they are closely bound up with the conception of the dog as the guardian of hidden treasure. The Evolution of the Dragon
Like that of Curgenven, his own rising professional career was bound up with a commitment to expansionist sanitary reform.
As for the kerchief, it betokeneth that her breath of life is bound up in thee. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Like many successful Irish events, Dublin football games are bound up with the vast consumption of drink.
Dressed in a sheepskin coat, with a fur cap on his head and his mouth bound up with a handkerchief, he seemed paler and thinner than ever.
The argument goes that accessible characteristics of websites are coterminous with usable characteristics of websites, because both usability and accessibility are bound up with simplicity and ease of use.
As irritating as romanticising the past might be to outsiders, those bound up in it must start to consider its effects.
The defence of democratic rights is inseparably bound up with the struggle for socialism.
The first recorded case of an Indian being christened here was bound up with British commercial adventures in South Asia.
The development of human civilisation is intimately bound up with the domestication of cereals.
All our limitations are bound up in our intellectual mind with its boundaries and imperfections and its tendency to emotional distortion.
If we understand by the term cause the axiom that every change has an occasion, hence that every event is bound up with a number of conditions which when lacking in whole or in part would prevent the appearance of the event, while their presence would compel its appearance, then the whole business of the criminalist is the study of causes. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
[Greek: 'kouroi anarriptein ala pêdô,'] in their showy uniforms, push out from Ryker's; some bound upward past the oyster-beds of Fair Haven, away up among the salt-marsh meadows, where the Quinnipiac wanders under quaint old bridges among fair, green hills; some for the Light, shooting out into the broad waters of the open bay, their feathered oars flashing in the sunlight; some for The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
The letter was thick as a pocket Bible now, a loose bundle of papers bound up with string.
Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader. Author! Author! » 2010 » August
The future of the island is bound up with the fortunes of the ruling power.
The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of the community.
Is that sort of radical interpersonal disinhibition so tightly bound up with the creative and productive instincts of the entrepreneur that stifling it to an excessive extent will also kill productivity and creativity?
Drawing welfare would be bound up with a residency test - how long people have lived here and how much they have paid in. The Sun
The history of the company is closely bound up with the history of the Grant family.
Sugar is as much bound up with the history of slavery and colonialism as cotton, which this column looked at last week.
The history of music is, of course, bound up with the development of musical instruments.
Human rights in general and the right to communicate in particular are bound up with the notion of democracy.
The doctrine of precedent is bound up with the need for a reliable system of law reporting.
The drive to war is inseparably bound up with domestic policies aimed at enriching a financial oligarchy at the apex of society, through constant attacks on the living standards of working people.
Whatever needs to be said about how the three persons of the Trinity are related to each other within the life of the Godhead, the New Testament declares that the Spirit's mission in the world is bound up with the glorifying of the Son.
Viviane's deep red hair was bound up into a bun, although some of her hair was free anyway and very curly.
The wicked are being bound up in bundles, bound up in trusts, in unions, in confederacies.
The history of the company is closely bound up with the history of the Grant family.
This therefore brings me to the second reason why democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality.
The works he has loved most — from Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" to the poetry of Dylan Thomas — still nourish his imagination; this isn't only because Mr. Conroy is quite mad about words — he jots down every new one he encounters — but because his most cherished books are bound up with the unforgettable individuals who nurtured and influenced him. The Life Well-Read
The history of doppelgängers and doubles, you see, is intimately bound up with human mortality and the origins of image making.
He staggered to his home where his family bound up the wound with rags.
Their claim to fame is nothing more than having been ordinary people bound up in the two cataclysmic events of the twentieth century - WWI and WWII.
‘Every single random, accidental death is something that should upset a faith bound up with comfort and ready answers,’ he wrote.
He said vitrified radioactive materials would be bound up in glass or other depositories and would not be easily released.
She finally grabbed a piece of cloth and tightly bound up the cut.
Economic progress is closely bound up with educational development.
From that moment my life became inextricably bound up with hers.
And this is that same unity which is fruitful in the outgoing activity of the Persons, and forms in Their return an eternal bond of love which shall never be untied: and all who know themselves to be bound up in it shall be blessed throughout eternity, and they are rich in virtue, and clear in contemplation, and simple in fruitive rest. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
The survival of whales is intimately bound up with the health of the ocean.
Contemporary concerns with cleanliness and purity are bound up with religious and ritual uses of water in the past.
It is bound up entirely with the underlying program of militarism abroad and social reaction at home.
A political motive was clearly bound up with this economic activity.
Economic and social history are inextricably bound up with each other.
The policy of war abroad is invariably bound up with political repression at home.
The growth of the exercise phenomenon was inexorably bound up with the ascendant women's movement.
Like many successful Irish events, Dublin football games are bound up with the vast consumption of drink.
The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse, she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.
The manager of a company does not like having a large chunk of his wealth bound up in its shares.
Human rights in general and the right to communicate in particular are bound up with the notion of democracy.
Economic and social history are inextricably bound up with each other.
Economic progress is closely bound up with educational development.
Nothing finite, nothing bound up in this world, can compare to the infinite.
We found them there, bound up their broken legs and bruised backs, and nursed them quite well again in one corner of the froggery that we called the hospital. The Story Hour
A most sacred obligation was bound up with a most atrocious crime.
Similarly, the drive to topple God from his throne (or decentre him as a universal referent for all knowledge) is closely bound up with the emergence of freedom as a key political value in Liberalism.
Regardless, it raises interesting questions concerning the ways in which sexual attraction is bound up with aspirations.
The history of this area is bound up in locomotion.
The survival of whales is intimately bound up with the health of the ocean.
The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse, she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.
Parcels must be properly bound up for posting to other countries.
Society Catalogue (pp. 38, 115) gives a Durham Canon Missœ, bound up with a psalter, hymnary, and journal, of 1391 and 1416. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
The imagery of initiation is strongly bound up with that of death and rebirth. Phoenix From the Flame
The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of the community.
Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader. Author! Author! » 2010 » August
This is one of the few wines that can cope with a full-frontal chocolate assault, and very tasty it is too, with flavours of figs, dates and raisins bound up in a sweet, richly alcoholic coating.
See the effect of it: The breadth of the waters is straitened, that is, the waters that had spread themselves, and flowed with liberty, are congealed, benumbed, arrested, bound up in crystal fetters. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Old Dr. Jenkins stood behind the showcase in his drug-store dealing out quinine pills and earache drops to the poor country folk and negroes, who, with sallow faces or heads bound up, declared themselves "chillin '" or "painful" while they waited. In Simpkinsville : character tales,
De Quincey remarks that impressions do not come to us singly, be it a lightning bolt or sunshine: they are bound up in compound experiences which he calls 'involutes' -- patterns that spiral inwards like the stairwells in Piranesi's dungeons. Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
Joyce himself believed the progress of his writing was, in some mystical sense, bound up with his daughter's illness.
A person's name and their sense of their own identity are often closely bound up together.
The energy is bound up in the cellulose (especially the hemicellulose), which has to be freed from the inert lignin and then converted into sugars (a process called, naturally enough, saccharification), which can then be fermented into ethanol. Spinning straw into liquid gold
Economic progress is closely bound up with educational development.
Man by creation had all the faculties of his soul at liberty to study God his creator, and his glorious attributes and being; but man by sin, hath so bound up his own senses and reason; and hath given way for blindness and ignorance of God, so to reign in his soul; that now he is captivated and held bound in alienation and estrangedness both from God, and all things truly spiritually good; "Because," saith he, "that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, -- but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
Dodgson made a game of the sessions, so the girls may be play-acting; but the lens confers an inescapable awareness of separateness, bound up with seeing and being seen.
When these grapes are picked and pressed, they extract a golden, sweet juice of unique concentration, bound up in a web of exquisite fruit acidity.
The title's meanings remain only provisionally understood, but the term's significance was bound up in notions of learning, the righteousness of tradition, and the scrupulous observance of ritual obligation.
On my side particularly it seems that my decision is inevitably going to be based upon faith, and hence inevitably bound up with reservations and doubt.
Of gold was the yoke that linked the necks of his steeds whiter than the snow; and on his shoulders flashed his targe with figures welded in gold; while a gorgon of bronze like that which gleams from the aegis of the goddess was bound upon the frontlet of his horses, ringing out its note of fear with many a bell. Rhesus
It is so much bound up with the domestic, the homely, with the kids, with budgeting and making ends meet, and with piecework type occupations.
A person's name and their sense of their own identity are often closely bound up together.
This vagueness and insubstantiality is bound up with the director's artistic-intellectual outlook and methods.
Is this trend merely due to cultural conservation, or is it also bound up with the particular development of German society?
These words were taken in the sense that Jesus was then re-born of the Spirit an adoptive Son of God and Messiah; and with this reading is bound up the entire adoptionist school of Christology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Extension cords that looked frayed or suspicious were bound up in Scotch cellophane tape.
It dawns on me that the left's desire for Palin to do interviews - really the desire for her to be shivved by an MSM hit job - is bound up in this idea that their talking points are true. Obama on Olbermann was much worse than I'd originally thought.
His death was bound up with the matter.
Occasionally, however, planners become so bound up in their own highly regulated world that they indulge in the sort of bureaucratic nit-picking that demeans their professional name.
These very weak stones are rich in water, which is bound up in both hydrated salts and clay minerals.
He was parked in the services at Rainton, near Ripon, when he was approached by a man who forced him to drive northbound up the A1.
By the same token, it could be said, historical falsification is bound up with efforts to obscure an understanding of the present.
The French government's motives are bound up with the defence of its own diplomatic and strategic interests.
This is bound up both with the bipartisan support for these attacks on city employees, and with the role of the city unions and the entire trade union bureaucracy.
Bound up in these four principles is the intention to promote a way of life in other countries which not only mirrors our own fundamental values here in Canada, but also is the basis of future prosperity here and in other countries. Canada's World Role
According to a long and dominant tradition, the physical is bound up with the spatial.
Dodgson made a game of the sessions, so the girls may be play-acting; but the lens confers an inescapable awareness of separateness, bound up with seeing and being seen.
Extension cords that looked frayed or suspicious were bound up in Scotch cellophane tape.
Mastery of the code of reading is intimately bound up with oral competence in a language.
Undoubtedly the fever is not so severe at Basile as in the lowlands, but there are here the usual drawbacks to West African high land, namely an over supply of rain, and equally saturating mists, to say nothing of sudden and extreme alternations of temperature, and so the colonists still fall off, and their children die continuously from the various entozoa which abound upon the island. Travels in West Africa
The manager of a company does not like having a large chunk of his wealth bound up in its shares.
More impressive still, its microstructure is strangely bound up with the way in which it is consulted.
Is this country so bound up in red tape that compassion has been strangled?
The future of biology is strongly bound up with bioinformatics: that is, the field of research that collects biological data of all kinds, and tries to make sense of the data as a whole, and to make predictions.
The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of the community.
A political motive was clearly bound up with this economic activity.
George Eliot addresses this distinction between intellectual and felt understanding a number of times, especially in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda: there's a difference between purely "theoretic" knowledge (ideas disconnected from feeling and practice) and true knowledge (bound up inseparably with one's relationship to the world). Relating
But being still able to regain his home, though faint with the loss of blood, he bound up his wounds himself, and with the assistance of a doctoress skilled in simples, made such applications of herbs as at the end of several weeks restored him to health again. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
his career is bound up with the fortunes of the enterprise
And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
They are doing that, every day, which will be remembered against them another day (v. 12): The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, and his sin is hid; God took notice of it, kept it upon record, and will produce it against him and reckon with him for it afterwards. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
She noticed that she was wearing what appeared to be a long, white dress, and her arm was bound up tightly and placed in a sling.
Although activists take on global economic and political issues, their affiliations, allegiances and loyalties are bound up in local communities.
People communicate and maneuver in these networks rather than being bound up in one solidary community. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » The Strength of Internet Ties — new tools for creating social capital?
The simplest kind of scratch brush consists merely of a bundle of wires bound up tightly by another wire, and somewhat "frizzed" out at the ends (Fig. 90). On Laboratory Arts
In other words, much of metazoan evolution was cryptic, bound up in tiny animals devoid of skeletons and perhaps surviving as interstitial benthic microfauna.
Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader. Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Speaking of dialogue revision, part VI: and then there’s the fine art of doing it right, or, love, agent-style
The Samaritan provided for the care of the injured man by digging into his own pockets to pay the price for his care. He bound up his wounds and poured oil on him.
With this contemplation, there is bound up an exercise which is wayless, that is to say, a noughting of life; for, where we go forth out of ourselves into darkness and the abysmal Waylessness, there shines perpetually the simple ray of the Splendour of God, in which we are grounded, and which draws us out of ourselves into the superessence, and into the immersion of love. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
West African high land, namely an over supply of rain, and equally saturating mists, to say nothing of sudden and extreme alternations of temperature, and so the colonists still fall off, and their children die continuously from the various entozoa which abound upon the island. Travels in West Africa
He may be no worse than most of those who've lead the Department of Transportation, but his appointment is a profoundly uninspiring vote for business as usual at a time when we need change, and an strong indication that the administration doesn't get that energy policy, technological innovation, urban planning, environmental sustainability and transportation are all bound up together, and no solution to our problems can be had without tackling them all together. Boing Boing
This therefore brings me to the second reason why democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality.
The seigneurial system was intimately bound up with the ideal of living nobly: it was designed to let seigneurs consume what peasants produced.
Feminist writer and broadcaster Bea Campbell explains that ageism towards women is inextricably bound up with sexism.
He was too bound up in his own problems to listen to any of mine.
The telescopic observations used by Galileo to confute the Aristotelians are bound up with complex assumptions having to do with optics: this penetration of observation by theory is typical.
Each of these is essentially ancestor-worship, the ancestors being reckoned back through family groups, of higher and higher order, sometimes with strict reference to the principle of agnation, as in old Rome; and, as in the latter, it is intimately bound up with the whole organisation of the State. Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study
The evolutionary trajectory of hominoids is intimately bound up with the exploitation of ripe, fleshy fruits.
Economic and social history are inextricably bound up with each other.
More usually, the body was bound up in a folded position, with the knees under the chin.
The doctrine of precedent is bound up with the need for a reliable system of law reporting.
The Sakya tradition is closely bound up with the Khon ancestral lineage, which derived from celestial beings.
Unlike bacteria and archaea, eukaryotes have their DNA in linear pieces that are bound up with special proteins to make chromosomes.
But let the reader suppose a fascicule of such poems bound up with the present collection, and he will perceive that I could have gone no straighter way to destroy the singularity of the book. Preface
And what would be the taste of all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with the galleys, the post, the iron necklet, the green cap, unceasing toil, and pitiless shame. Les Miserables
The telescopic observations used by Galileo to confute the Aristotelians are bound up with complex assumptions having to do with optics: this penetration of observation by theory is typical.

How To Use Bound up In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):