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How to pronounce bounds in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bound, boundary
Type of extremity
Has types border, borderline, boundary line, bourn, bourne, city line, county line, delimitation, demarcation, demarcation line, district line, edge, end, frontier, hairline, heliopause, limit, lineation, mete, surface, outline, shoreline

Examples of bounds

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Kyles broke down court, but didn't see Murry's pass and it sailed out of bounds.
From the kansas.com
His partnering is secure, while he bounds through the jumps created for Nureyev.
From the independent.co.uk
She was out of bounds, of course, and thinking about a million different things.
From the kansas.com
He drove to the basket, tripped and lost the ball out of bounds as time expired.
From the kentucky.com
They also lost a key video review and then lost a crucial rebound out of bounds.
From the dailynews.com
It also appeared that Doe stepped out of bounds on replays shown in the stadium.
From the tennessean.com
Fans celebrated, but the officials and video replay ruled Rudolph out of bounds.
From the dailynews.com
They're not going to just catch a 3-yard ball in the flat and run out of bounds.
From the jsonline.com
Her observations have been outside the bounds of appropriateness more than once.
From the businessweek.com
More examples
  • Boundary: a line determining the limits of an area
  • Confined by bonds; "bound and gagged hostages"
  • Jump: move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"
  • Boundary: the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
  • Form the boundary of; be contiguous to
  • Held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
  • The Bound was a British 4 wheeled cyclecar made in 1920 by Bound Brothers of Southampton, England.
  • In the sport of cricket, the bound is a jump that allows the bowler to transition from the run-up to the back foot contact position. For a chest on bowler not much transition is needed. So, many chest on bowlers have a low, short bound. ...
  • Bound is a 1996 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by the Wachowski brothers. It is about a woman (Jennifer Tilly) who longs to escape her relationship with her mafioso boyfriend (Joe Pantoliano). ...