bottled-up
Example Sentences
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Kuwait has begun cutting production at some oil fields after running out of room to store its bottled-up crude.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
“There’s this bottled-up energy,” he said, and once people are set loose, expenses go up because there’s a community to connect with.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 9, 2026
He said he often tapped into those memories when playing characters who were full of jittery, bottled-up anger.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2022
And so she found herself at Augustus Hawkins that day, speaking to the therapist, releasing a lifetime of bottled-up emotion.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2021
The tiger coming in-doors, Jay suggested, represented prison, a bottled-up wilderness within walls.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
