How to Use unbound in a Sentence

unbound

adjective
  • He dresses however he likes and feels unbound by convention.
  • To be free is to be empowered and, unbound, Black people seem to scare this world.
    Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
  • Like so much of Montana, the unbound sky was bold and giant, rolling with storms, then cast with sunbeams and blue.
    Andrew Evans, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • Again, the press was unbound, the pages stuffed, the coordinates declared, the baggies stored.
    Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • And for a few minutes on a summer morning, the dazzling wonder of life was unbound.
    Washington Post, 20 July 2021
  • On top of the subgrade goes a new layer of unbound soil and stone, where the aggregates aren’t glued together.
    Mansour Solaimanian, The Conversation, 10 May 2024
  • Her endearing smiles and kind eyes exude warmth, and the range and strength of her voice amplify Helen’s unbound faith.
    Grace Danon, Orange County Register, 7 Apr. 2017
  • This morning is the kind of brilliant that forces a Northerner, unbound from winter’s long twilight, to squint.
    Tom Verducci, SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • By-the-glass options give me freedom to be whimsical, unbound by the barriers of business.
    Bon Appétit, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Nachos are season-free, unbound by Earth’s calendar, in a way few other dishes get to be.
    Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
  • Shooting the film this way allows the story to feel raw and unbound — like Josephine Decker’s early projects — even though the director is always in control.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The creature, unbound and apparently alone, has careened around a bend and is barreling toward you, eyes wild and tongue out.
    Mark Remy, Outside Online, 12 Oct. 2018
  • There’s an element of freedom to that — of being unbound from these earthly constraints — and delight.
    New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • The 1967 march on the Pentagon — the building that sent my father to war — seethed with the venom against a government no longer trusted by a generation unbound.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Two binding and color options, wire bound in chipboard or black bookboard and unbound version.
    The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2017
  • If relaxation and reflection is top of mind, the best art to play with is fluid and unbound by complicated designs.
    Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Always, there’s a drive to reach beyond appearance to something unbound by precedent.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • This is Hill’s lot as a Black commentator, unbound by the restrictions of journalism.
    Denene Millner, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Meanwhile, none of stars appear to come from the Milky Way's core, and the remaining 13 unbound stars (including the two fastest, which zip through our galaxy at about 1.5 million miles per hour) cannot be traced back to the Milky Way at all.
    Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2018
  • The trial is the latest in the legal jeopardy, including 91 felony counts, facing a man who sees himself as unbound by convention.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The Republican Party has two types of delegates: bound and unbound.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Once that support system is in place, Trump is unbound, free to impose his fantasies on reality.
    David Roberts, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
  • The model that best explains those discrepancies is that unbound planets—or planets that don’t orbit a star—are floating between the stars in the lens galaxy.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Republicans The party has fewer unbound delegates, and they are based more on the vagaries of state rules, while the Democrats rely more on central planning.
    Toni Monkovic, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2016
  • The scientists next remove and collect the bound snippets, then capture the unbound snippets and send them back to the target cell again, repeating the process for several cycles.
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Officials there tried to insulate themselves from what many saw as a clownish scheme unbound from law and evidence.
    Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Despite the divergence of sounds, the LP remains a cohesive body of work, one that is a masterclass in unbound creativity.
    Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The Republican Party, convinced of its right to rule, has been ethically unbound since Richard Nixon.
    Michelle Goldberg, Slate Magazine, 26 Apr. 2017
  • In addition, the Republican party has 104 unbound delegates, who don’t have to back a candidate who won their state.
    Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
  • According to Ballotpedia, these unbound delegates can only cast a vote if the convention proceeds past the first round of voting.
    Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024

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