Pent-up

//pɛnt ʌp//

"Pent-up" in a Sentence (7 examples)

His pent-up grudge to the cult exploded into the gunshot death of the former prime minister.

He has a lot of pent-up anger.

I remember, particularly, how, in his speech here, he referred to what his family had suffered in Kansas, without ever giving the least vent to his pent-up fire.

He punched his pillow and screamed at the top of his lungs about all the pent-up frustrations from the day.

It was that kind of night, full of anxiety and drama and plenty of danger, until, finally, Steven Gerrard made sure all the pent-up emotion could be released.

Anecdotally, demand has held up - rather than cancelling, people are asking when they might be able to travel. There is a sense of some pent-up demand.

“I believe it’s a lot of pent-up demand from the pandemic and people wanting to get out,” David Richardson, a member of the Miami Beach City Commission, said on Sunday.

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