spiral-bound
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of spiral-bound
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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A customer came in and donated some spiral-bound, self-published works.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
However, after three weeks they suddenly took my diary off me because it was a spiral-bound notebook, which was a prohibited item.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024
This spiral-bound compendium, once an Angeleno necessity, includes 504 pages of street maps in great gridded detail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
These spiral-bound journals are the white whale of “Diary of a Misfit,” the key to unlocking Hudgins’s story and, ostensibly, to providing answers to the questions Parks asks herself.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
But her hands dipped into the drawer anyway and came out with a fat spiral-bound sketchbook.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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