cooped up

Example Sentences

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Not only are they younger due to the AI boom, but, as Raines noted, many spent their high-school or college years cooped up at home during the pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Martin-Coppen added: "We are not talking small animals. We are talking pure muscle, pure power, untrained, cooped up in a small house."

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

Thanks to a monster snowstorm that hit the area, the family had been cooped up inside for several days — and cabin fever was setting in.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2024

Airlines were helped in 2023 by strong demand for travel from people who had spent most of the pandemic cooped up at home.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2024

Minerva had planted it years back when she was cooped up here, wanting to get out and live the bigger version of her life.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez