The crate was bound on pickup by the warehouse staff before being loaded onto the truck.

The cloak bound on equip and could not be traded afterward.

The late-bound method threw a runtime error when the interface changed.

The early-bound interfaces reduced runtime overhead, but they made the system harder to extend.

In the OT tableau, candidate A harmonically bound candidate B, so the grammar selected A.

In Optimality Theory, harmonic bounding occurs when one input-output mapping receives a set of constraint violations that is a proper subset of the set received by another mapping, causing the former to be excluded despite incurring fewer violations.

I'll be bound he's telling the truth about what happened.

I'll be bound — I never expected to see you here!

The bound bailiff handed me the writ and explained that the property would be repossessed if I did not pay within seven days.

The project manager set time-bound milestones to ensure steady progress.