bound for

1. On the way to, heading for. For example, This bus is bound for Broadway. It is also found in a well-known gospel hymn in which the singer is “bound for the land of Canaan.” This phrase stems from the 12th-century meaning of bound as “ready” or “prepared.”

Example Sentences

After the competition ended, Brewer boarded one flight for Atlanta before getting on another one bound for Los Angeles, only to hop back on a third plane a little more than 12 hours later to accompany her Bruins teammates to West Lafayette, Ind., for the Big Ten tournament.

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JNIM's fighters have kidnapped drivers and torched more than 100 trucks bound for Bamako.

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Residents in the towns of Futaba and Okuma, as well as nearby Namie and Tomioka, clambered onto buses bound for towns farther inland.

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“All ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation or port will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, be turned back.”

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Trucks already haul Mato Grosso’s harvest north to river barges bound for ports on Brazil’s Atlantic coast.

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