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
Everyone might be stunned — as they were 15 years ago — at the bottled-up support and enthusiasm there is for public schools in this town.
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024
Ridley’s Helena is mostly a succession of bottled-up stares broken up by bursts of fear for her child’s safety, and even those moments don’t track with the implausibility of some of her own actions.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023
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
