It is not incorrect to use the phrase "bound the two" in a sentence, but it may be unclear or awkward without additional context.
It is typically used to indicate that something is connecting or connecting together two elements. Example: The bridge bound the two towns together, allowing for easier travel and exchange of goods.
Whatever bound the two men it included affection had long since outworn the illusions of pride.
This strategy succeeded, but broke the friendship and the relationship of close mutual support that bound the two women activists.
That was an agreement that bound the two parties together, stipulating a penalty clause should either side break the deal.
But Mr. Boswell chafes at the comparison, and said their Iowa roots were all that bound the two men.
Still, it was more than a fancy for heavily furred dogs with blue-black tongues that bound the two of them together.
Those who decide to stay here find a welcoming attitude because of the familiar ties that for generations have bound the two countries together.
But as long-festering resentments come to the surface, you can't help wondering what bound the three men together in the first place.
The architects Irvin Pearce, Jeffrey Lee and David Francis have bound the three theaters together with a connecting gallery of glass walls and the Indiana limestone used on the original building.
The Treaty of Chaumont had bound the four principal allied powers Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Great Britain together in their quest to defeat Napoleon.
On June 9th, President Obama's endorsement bound her candidacy to his Presidency, and bound the three major figures of recent Democratic Party history (one Obama, two Clintons) together, too.
It's the meaningful symbol of the close ties that bound the five sons of the first Rothschild, Amschel Mayer of Frankfurt.
