How to Use unbound in a Sentence

unbound

adjective
  • He dresses however he likes and feels unbound by convention.
  • Ideas flow when the body is occupied but the mind is unbound.
    — Karen Palmer september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
  • To be free is to be empowered and, unbound, Black people seem to scare this world.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
  • Amid unbound screams and bodily fluids, a baby emerges, but makes no sound.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
  • And for a few minutes on a summer morning, the dazzling wonder of life was unbound.
    — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
  • Like so much of Montana, the unbound sky was bold and giant, rolling with storms, then cast with sunbeams and blue.
    — Andrew Evans, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • Again, the press was unbound, the pages stuffed, the coordinates declared, the baggies stored.
    — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • On top of the subgrade goes a new layer of unbound soil and stone, where the aggregates aren’t glued together.
    — Mansour Solaimanian, The Conversation, 10 May 2024
  • Two binding and color options, wire bound in chipboard or black bookboard and unbound version.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2017
  • Esports are often unbound by state lines and national borders.
    — Jonathan Herpy, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • Always, there’s a drive to reach beyond appearance to something unbound by precedent.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • By-the-glass options give me freedom to be whimsical, unbound by the barriers of business.
    — Bon Appétit, 8 Jan. 2022
  • With Worthy back, the Chiefs offense suddenly seems unbound as well.
    — Jesse Newell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Nachos are season-free, unbound by Earth’s calendar, in a way few other dishes get to be.
    — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
  • There’s an element of freedom to that — of being unbound from these earthly constraints — and delight.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • Her endearing smiles and kind eyes exude warmth, and the range and strength of her voice amplify Helen’s unbound faith.
    — Grace Danon, Orange County Register, 7 Apr. 2017
  • This morning is the kind of brilliant that forces a Northerner, unbound from winter’s long twilight, to squint.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Officials there tried to insulate themselves from what many saw as a clownish scheme unbound from law and evidence.
    — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The creature, unbound and apparently alone, has careened around a bend and is barreling toward you, eyes wild and tongue out.
    — Mark Remy, Outside Online, 12 Oct. 2018
  • If relaxation and reflection is top of mind, the best art to play with is fluid and unbound by complicated designs.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 21 Nov. 2022
  • But such revelry for Cuba’s outcasts, for the first time allowed to be unbound, comes at an unthinkable price.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
  • GitHub’s culture was young and fast-moving, unbound by tradition and orthodoxy.
    — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Hublot stands ripe for adventure, uniquely unbound by traditions that might constrain it to an identity forged in a bygone era.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2022
  • If more biopics felt this unbound by estate obligations, good taste, and reality, the genre might have room for more interesting features.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 May 2024
  • Even you can sometimes be seized by a desire to become invisible, allowed to live your life unknown and unseen and unbound to anyone but yourself.
    — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Mace is a sterling vision of Black women’s anger unbound to propriety, embodying what such anger can inspire or reflect.
    — Vulture, 16 Mar. 2023
  • After a fairly traditional take on the opening lines, Andress remains unbound by the notes that we’re used to hearing from the rest of the tune.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 16 July 2024
  • This is Hill’s lot as a Black commentator, unbound by the restrictions of journalism.
    — Denene Millner, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The model that best explains those discrepancies is that unbound planets—or planets that don’t orbit a star—are floating between the stars in the lens galaxy.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The trial is the latest in the legal jeopardy, including 91 felony counts, facing a man who sees himself as unbound by convention.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024

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