How To Use Pent-up In A Sentence
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Many of the short movements sound like the phantasmagorical release of long pent-up frustrations, regrets and even anger.
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Wave after wave of pent-up emotion poured out.
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Seventy years of empty store shelves have created great pent-up demand for consumer goods, including electronics.
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He saw a patch of purple silk between her legs and found a target for his pent-up rage.
KISS AN ANGEL
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But in all cases the cure is effected essentially by a kind of catharsis or purgation - a release of the pent-up psychic energy, the constriction of which was the basic cause of the neurotic illness.
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She was too pent-up to speak.
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For the fans, this dance provides catharsis and releases pent-up energy.
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Such a mix is not exactly a ready-made means for triumph, but Mr. Hegarty wields it with disquieting power and grace, whether whispering through spells of ethereality or growling with an energy that is at once pent-up and unencumbered.
Brazen Beats and Metal Mayhem
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Our teacher then taught us several breathing techniques which were promised to result in a calm expulsion of toxins, the release of pent-up emotions and a sizzling spurt of energy.
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their reactions were partly the product of pent-up emotions
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For example, after the shuttle has entered orbit, the cargo bay doors open to help release much of the pent-up heat created during liftoff and ascent.
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Six years of pent-up memories had come flooding back to him in the blink of an eye.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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“Fair Play” has agood build up of emotion, pent-up hunger and lust.
Book Review: The Sweetest Kiss « Colleen Anderson
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He pointed to a reduced spend on household durables of 0.5 per cent last year as proof that ‘the supposed pent-up demand predicted when guidelines were introduced does not exist and this must be taken into account in the review underway’.
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All that pent-up rage, kicking the bicycle rack ... but proper competitors were supposed to be aggressive.
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One porcelain bird skull is penetrated, acupuncture-style, by several dozen wire skewers that suggest emanations of pent-up energy or thought.
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Someday some hypermanic kid will produce a moronically maxed-out adventure odyssey that will spark the overdue rebellion among all the over-pressured SAT grinds, and us grumpy midlife critics will get to witness a new Kerouac, and the greatest pent-up young-life crisis in the history of the world.
10-3-07 The Found Generation
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The Net can sometimes seem like a monstrous fountain of obscenity, hate and lies, the ultimate refuge for sociopaths releasing years of pent-up frustration.
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I venture that these seemingly wanton acts of destruction were down to pent-up anger from his childhood.
The Sun
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There's a lot of pent-up anger and frustration.
Times, Sunday Times
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This in turn drives the real leaders of the community to the margins, while the people are happy with the release of their pent-up emotion in the form of slogans.
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Screaming at the top of your voice is a good way of venting pent-up frustration.
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cried Holly, her pent-up anger at his proposal finally breaking through the embarrassment and fear.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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The pent-up waters, controlled by a sluice gate, were directed past the mill wheel, driving the wooden gears, shafts and millstones.
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The pent-up emotion had swollen and swollen inside the young thing till the dam could no longer embay it.
Desperate Remedies
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Sometimes we just need a way to release our pent-up emotions.
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Once the pent-up resentment has erupted, there is no putting the genie back in the bottle.
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Property values have recovered from their slump this year thanks to ultralow interest rates and pent-up demand.
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There is catharsis, release, and a dispersion of pent-up emotions and feelings.
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Bad enough that some House Democrats took the November results as permission to gratify every pent-up urge, no matter how unstimulating.
Rick Horowitz: Those Republicans Know How to Throw a Party
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I venture that these seemingly wanton acts of destruction were down to pent-up anger from his childhood.
The Sun
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While in line at the bank one afternoon, my toddler decided to release some pent-up energy and ran amok.
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For many, the experience is clearly cathartic and helps release pent-up emotions.
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Screaming at the top of your voice is a good way of venting pent-up frustration.
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Pent-up water from three days of heavy rain gushed through the breach.
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Years of pent-up emotion came out as he sobbed.
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Passionate Man is not to be so satisfied; and the time was fully come for the rise of some fierce spirit, who should change the tinsel theology of the crucifix for the iron religion of the sword: who should blow in the ears of the slumbering West the shrill war-blast of Eastern fervencies; who should exchange the dull rewards of canonization due to penance, or an after-life voluntary humiliation under pseudo-saints and angels, for the human and comprehensible joys of animal appetite and military glory: who should enlist under his banner all the frantic zeal, all the pent-up licentiousness, all the heart-burning hatreds of mankind, stifled either by a positive barbarism, or the incense-laden cloud of a scarcely-masked idolatry.
Probabilities : An aid to Faith
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Like a safety valve, it releases the pent-up pressures of our wired cacophony.
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He still had a lot of pent-up anger to release.
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The pills left a bitter taste, a raging thirst and pent-up energy for which there was no outlet.
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Punishment for its own sake is always a valueless process, which corrects nothing and only serves to vent the pent-up rage of the person or people inflicting it.
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For the previous week crowds had flooded central Cairo giving voice to decades of pent-up frustration.
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The trucks seem to personify the pent-up rage that's come to characterise car culture.
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But have they spotted the pent-up demand for car clutter?
Times, Sunday Times
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It forms a significant bulwark against the tide so that, even on neaps, there is an appreciable movement of water as the pent-up flow sweeps around the headland.
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As the starting gun barked out the release of pent-up energy, each triathlete fought for his or her personal space in the sea of bodies.
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Internet discussion groups at times appear to be founts of perspicacity and wisdom, at other times the ultimate refuge for sociopaths releasing years of pent-up frustration.
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Our teacher then taught us several breathing techniques which were promised to result in a calm expulsion of toxins, the release of pent-up emotions and a sizzling spurt of energy.
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A captured fish or a pent-up mass of water was, by contrast, a private good, something that belonged to someone.
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China's economic planners are hoping to unleash decades of pent-up consumer demand for houses, cars, and smaller purchases funded by bank loans.
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From all appearances, it behooves me to be clearing out, ere the pent-up feelings of the people find vent in some aggressive manner, as a result of this person's incitant eloquence.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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Like a safety valve, it releases the pent-up pressures of our wired cacophony.
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He is a pent-up wall of fussy manners and glacial reserve that instantly puts people on edge.
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The 9th of May, after another such an up-and-down course, ascending hills and descending into the twilight depths of deepening valleys, we came suddenly upon the Mukondokwa, and its narrow pent-up valley crowded with rank reedy grass, cane, and thorny bushes; and rugged tamarisk which grappled for existence with monster convolvuli, winding their coils around their trunks with such tenacity and strength that the tamarisk seemed grown but for their support.
How I Found Livingstone
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The pent-up frustration was evident.
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I venture that these seemingly wanton acts of destruction were down to pent-up anger from his childhood.
The Sun
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But have they spotted the pent-up demand for car clutter?
Times, Sunday Times
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When the train disgorged its passengers at Queen Street, there was a huge communal feeling of pent-up anger yet nowhere to vent it.
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Images of Brando in character now are emblems for the era he dominated: Stanley Kowalski with his ripped t-shirt and pent-up rage; Terry Malloy, making a defiant stand against the mob on the waterfront; Johnny the Biker in "The Wild One," sneering at all authority.
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At the time it didn't sound like a clever psychological ploy, but rather a release of pent-up emotions.
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We ended up in a hotel room that night and let loose the pent-up frustrations of our marriages.
The Sun
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As the starting gun barked out the release of pent-up energy, each triathlete fought for his or her personal space in the sea of bodies.
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He exhales deeply, like he's opening a valve to pent-up emotions.
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In a few months Gome has gone from an example of extraordinary success, as it served China's pent-up consumer demand, to an example of the murky and fragile state of Chinese business.
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The pent-up waters, controlled by a sluice gate, were directed past the mill wheel, driving the wooden gears, shafts and millstones.
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The trigger that allowed these pent-up frustrations to flow was Rubygate, the affair that culminated this week in Berlusconi being sent for trial on vice charges.
The Guardian World News
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Such pent-up energy will be released, either abruptly, adding to the severity of a future earthquake, or more benignly as aseismic creep
Naturejobs - All Jobs
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The revelations about Foley are nothing to do with his repressed pent-up "drives" (the steam-boiler analog for human sexuality); they are our peek at privilege and power that the rulers are now obliged to claim "nauseates" them as a way of denying that exploitative, power-trip sex is the norm in this society ... and that these transgressions are an entitlement of their power.
Stan Goff: Pyongyang, Foley, and Mass Death
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This they accomplished through the sheer power of pent-up creativity.
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For the fans, this dance provides catharsis and releases pent-up energy.
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It was more an outbreak of energy and emotion and pent-up frustration.
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But the word was not yet spoken which was to undam the pent-up torrent, and bear down with unrelenting vengeance upon the now exulting columns of the enemy.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
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It was as if all the pent-up tension of the last few days was flooding out of him in that cleansing fit of laughter.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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• Match report: Manchester City 0-1 Tottenham• Read Paul Doyle's minute-by-minute report• Richard Williams: Spurs 'England contingent shine• In pictures: Tom Jenkins's best images from the gameUltimately, though, they came up conspicuously short and, as the game reached its final stages, Mancini could be seen screaming into the night air, kicking out those polished shoes and releasing all that pent-up frustration in the knowledge that a place in the Champions League qualifiers was about to pass them by.
Even with all their riches, City will be far poorer for this failure
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I find that the guys in this city are pent-up and sexually frustrated.
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Klinefelter says there's plenty of pent-up demand in the teen sector.
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Wave after wave of pent-up emotion poured out.
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No episode more graphically conveys the pent-up longing of those curiously shadowed and elusive days we lived through between the end of the war and the birth of swinging Britain.
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Try to release your pent-up emotions by participating in some extra physical activities like running, swimming, whatever.
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Sometimes, in momentary reaction from the pent-up feelings of indignation and revolt, which were chronic with me during my imprisonments, I could have laughed out loud at the imbecility and pathos of human fallibility, that civilised (?) educated beings could continue such processes by way of ridding themselves from the dangers and active harmfulness of crime.
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
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He still had a lot of pent-up anger to release.
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Consequently, much creative, pent-up energy is now released into the art of scrapbooking.
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She attempted two or three times to speak, but not a word escaped from her quivering lips; and the tears gushing from her eyes followed each other in quick succession down her cheeks; and, finally, her pent-up feelings found expression in short, convulsive sobs.
From Wealth to Poverty
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As pent-up Paul is forced to work with flaky, fun-loving Becky to cover up evidence of their supposed indiscretion, and avoid her violent cop ex-boyfriend, he realizes who his true love is.
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She was shivering with delight and pent-up desire.
