How to Use bound up in a Sentence

bound up

adjective
  • Now his life had become too bound up in theirs.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • His buglike form is bound up in being their son.
    — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But whole regional economies are bound up in coal, oil, and gas.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2021
  • This frame, two singles from the project bound up one sales tally.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • All of that was bound up and burst free in Self’s moment at the buzzer.
    — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
  • As if his own fate, his own guilt and innocence, were bound up with theirs.
    — Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 4 June 2026
  • The ruling is now bound up in court and has not yet taken effect.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • All of these questions are bound up in our connection to the land.
    — Niema Jordan, Essence, 6 Apr. 2021
  • At a time of such angry division, what can bind up our wounds?
    — Nate Hochman, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • But those wounds can be bound up only once the threat has been defeated.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2019
  • No, my love for the show was always bound up in its ridiculousness.
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 13 Mar. 2018
  • On our younger Earth, for instance, oxygen was bound up in rocks.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Afterward the electrons were bound up in atoms, and light could flow freely.
    — Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • For many of our nation's warfighters, the sacred is bound up with the pain.
    — Shauna Springer, CNN, 4 July 2020
  • This is a story bound up in legend as well as fact, but there is plenty of fact.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
  • They’re bound up in our habits and aversions, fears and imaginings.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Not least, the idea of the soul is bound up with our search for identity or selfhood.
    — TheWeek, 28 Mar. 2020
  • But love them or hate them, our past and our future is bound up with these little hustlers.
    — National Geographic, 25 June 2019
  • It is also bound up with identity.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 Aug. 2025
  • And the yellow celestial orb looks like it is bound up in the stitching of the stars.
    — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Horses are bound up in the very core of the genre, an ancient equine entwinement.
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
  • May his soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life and may his memory be for a blessing.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • That participation is bound up in the drive to have fun and make art, too, of course.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 June 2024
  • Just then, one of the football players breaks out of the shed closet and he's been bound up, but by who?
    — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 8 June 2020
  • It is bound up with witchcraft, the underworld, night-time and the far side of the Moon.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The inseam should be long enough to feel confident during high steps, but not so long that your legs feel bound up.
    — Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
  • We are bound up in the passions of the moment as well as the heartbreak of the suffering around us.
    — John Baldoni, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Hopefully the chemicals are bound up or broken down in the soil.
    — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2025
  • What led to his alcoholism, or was bound up with it, was a collapse of his nervous system.
    — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Esquire, 7 Mar. 2017
  • But maybe the magic of The Matrix was always bound up in that thrill of the whoa.
    — Adam Sternbergh, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021

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