bind
verb (used with object)
to fasten or secure with a band or bond.
Example Sentences
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Watch: The Prince of Wales says Sir Kevin "binds and glues communities together"
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Only through a renewed encounter with Athens, Jerusalem and Rome can we recover the intellectual and moral glue that binds a society together despite technological and cultural changes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The list also reaches into the everyday commerce that binds the two economies, including cheese, seafood and cosmetics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Nothing here binds a future administration, and courts almost never stop the government from disavowing promises its officials had no authority to make.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
The strong nuclear force has a curious property called confinement: it always binds particles together into combinations that have no color.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
