Bound
Wind up
Wind up verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Both terms in one sentence
- The climax of the game is a shoot-out between Alexander's FBI goons, 47, the wheelchair-bound Jack Alexander himself, and an innocent priest and reporter who wind up getting caught in the crossfire.
Source: The Dragon / Video Games -
They're all attracted to working thumpers, so when you go mining, you're bound to wind up fending some of all of them off.
Source: Video Game / Firefall -
Doomed by Canon: In one way or another, they're all bound to wind up dead or shells of their former selves by the time the main Watchmen series starts.
Source: Comic Book / Before Watchmen
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