[
US
/ˈbaʊndz/
]
[ UK /bˈaʊndz/ ]
[ UK /bˈaʊndz/ ]
NOUN
- the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
How To Use bounds In A Sentence
- Passion abounds in this romance set on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where the rough-hewn Seth Quinn wins over Drusilla, the town's icy beauty.
- With rising medical costs growing by leaps and bounds, only the exclusive with mounds of $$$ will beable to afford it. Obama says health care delay is OK 'to get it right'
- The humor in the movie sometimes goes beyond the bounds of good taste.
- But the splinter of the self that consistently emerges as the common enemy of the true and the good alike is the will, always seeking to overleap its own bounds.
- It is a subject that knows no bounds or time limits, and the demands of the role continue to bedevil women who assume it. Cherie Burns: Stepmotherhood Never Ends
- To suggest that all unproductive consumption is solely capitalist personal consumption is to go beyond the bounds of credibility.
- In the first stage, that of the simplex, one is caught within the bounds of a single worldview. THE BROKEN GOD
- His ambition for approbation sets bounds and limits to his ambition, so to speak.
- The joy of Cornelius at what he called the salvation of the Meistersinger knew no bounds. My Life — Volume 2
- Jill's making excellent progress; she's coming along in leaps and bounds.