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Example Sentences
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The Hout, a cargo ship registered in the Comoros, left Dubai on Tuesday bound for a port in southeastern Iran.
From Barron's
It is a direct challenge to the equilibrium that has kept tensions with China within manageable bounds in the past few months.
From Barron's
We were her strays, but for those hours each week, we became a small tribe bound by the sound of a ball against wood.
From Los Angeles Times
They bounded over the trail after the doe even as I watched.
From Literature
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New ones were not to be found in Nikolai, but Oteg poked through his bundles and found two lengths of spruce, which he fitted to the runners and bound with caribou sinew.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.