Sentence examples for bound shut from inspiring English sources

The adult skulls had marks on the muzzles, from having been bound shut.

The open side of the American textbooks has been pierced with holes and bound shut with thread in the traditional Chinese style.

The school district has been put in a bind: shut the program down or lose state financing.

Kaiser has estimated that 3.9 million dependents of employees will be caught in this bind, shut out from affordable insurance from either the employer or the subsidized exchanges.

The government in Delhi had been keeping an open mind about whether to talk to him after the elections, but outrages such as the murder of Kashmir's law minister are bound to shut it.India, too, bungled its democratic prep work.

An offense with a one-dimensional quarterback is bound to be shut down in embarrassing fashion sooner or later.

Yet anyone who dares to use the words "western foreign policy" in this context is bound to be speedily shut up by the likes of Paxman and co.

"This government has got itself into a terrible bind by shutting down a world-class system of School Sport Partnerships and now pride is the only thing that is stopping them putting things back on course.

It may be easier to bind the tail shut with a stretchy fabric length or ribbon.

Police said the robbers held a gun to Kardashian's head, bound and gagged her and shut her in a bathroom.

The lesson from the disastrous armistice of 1918 for Roosevelt and, after him, Truman was that the defeated countries had to be turned into democracies and bound into the peace, not shut out.