How to Use bound and gagged in a Sentence

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• They were bound and gagged with duct tape and zip ties.
  — USA Today, 19 Jan. 2023
• So, as he's bound and gagged, he's bound with handcuffs.
  — CBS News, 22 Oct. 2022
• The third mainline Avengers film opened with Thanos strangling Loki to death while Thor, bound and gagged, watched in horror.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2021
• Seale was so incensed by the attorney the court appointed for him that the judge ordered him bound and gagged.
  — Steve Marbleobituaries Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
• There was Frank Taylor, bound and gagged with packing tape, dead from multiple stab wounds and a slashed throat.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2021
• One that’s been kidnapped, bound and gagged by an unruly gang of roasted garlic cloves.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2021
• The two men had been bound and gagged with tape before being placed in the bed of a pickup truck, according to arrest warrants.
  — Alexis Stevens, ajc, 23 July 2021
• The two men in the truck bed were bound and gagged, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 10 July 2021
• That is, until Darby, taking a break outside, spots a small girl (Mila Harris) bound and gagged in the back of a van in the parking lot.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2022
• Case in point is the Lego brutalist concrete prison June pulls up to, bound and gagged in artisanal leather, Hannibal Lecter–style.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
• Was Bobby Seale really bound and gagged during the trial?
  — Andrea Park, Marie Claire, 19 Oct. 2020
• After Seale’s protests about the process, Hoffman orders the sole Black defendant to be bound and gagged, in an American courtroom.
  — oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2020
• Two of the three victims found dead at a Georgia country club were bound and gagged with tape, according to new details released Friday.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 9 July 2021
• Another color drawing depicts a female victim bound and gagged in a red top.
  — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 2 Sep. 2023
• Despite Young An being bound and gagged, unable to articulate words, the dispatcher realized something was obviously wrong and sent officers to the home.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2022
• Fatima Johnson, 53, was discovered dead by family members in her apartment Saturday night Los Angeles police are investigating the murder of a mother of six who was found bound and gagged in her home over the weekend.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024