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
There’s a comic nastiness to Rock’s insults, some of which is studied, but other times appeared to be the product of his own bottled-up anger.
From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2023
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
I managed to jog the first mile, but the air was thicker than tree sap, and the pizza I’d eaten for lunch instead of the “BLT” squirmed in my stomach like a bottled-up squid.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
