How to Use bottle up in a Sentence

bottle up

phrasal verb

• Investment long bottled up in idle real estate could flow to more productive pursuits.
  — Patrick Chovanec, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
• Then there's the mighty V-12, which feels all bottled up at the low end.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023
• The desire to bottle up the poet’s voice wasn’t a new idea so much as a very, very old one.
  — Sam Dolnick, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Shoppers say the bag can carry bottles up to 36 ounces in size.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 12 Nov. 2023
• There is no right or wrong way to do this, but the important thing is not to bottle up your feelings.
  — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 10 Aug. 2024
• Aries March 21 – April 19 Don’t keep your feelings bottled up!
  — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 28 June 2024
• Here, some of our favorite solar perfumes that bottle up a blissful day in the sun.
  — Lori Keong, Allure, 7 Aug. 2024
• Their rocky depths could be used to bottle up blasts from small atom bombs or large subcritical tests.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• The breakfast chain has started bottling up and selling its syrups in stores nationwide.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 July 2024
• The sadness, the loneliness, was something that was always bottled up.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2023
• Edwards and Jrue Holiday bottled up Murray, who missed six of eight shots and finished with five points.
  — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 11 July 2024
• Request everyone bring the baby a funny bib and bottle up a blend of homemade sauce for guests to take home as a memento from the day.
  — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 30 June 2023
• Avoid propping bottles up, as this can also pose a choking risk and may even cause ear infections.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 16 May 2024
• The best fruity perfumes come in all sorts of varieties, many thanks to a new crop of gourmand fragrances bottling up dessertlike scents spiked with fruits like plum, cherry, and pear.
  — Lori Keong, Allure, 20 June 2024
• Their perimeter defense was passive and their ball movement was bottled up by the active Trojans.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• Durham Smythe is competent and reliable, but a big, skilled receiving tight end would have helped when Hill and Waddle were bottled up.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
• Mazda has so cleverly perfected the art of bottling up and replicating these joyful exchanges in each one of its cars, and the CX-90 has no shortage of that secret sauce.
  — Mara Balagtas McIlwrath, Car and Driver, 1 June 2023
• Alary said in a phone interview that his family, including his late grandmother, kept their grief bottled up through the years, tending not to talk about the murder.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024
• The fragrance itself is a gorgeous blend of fresh accord, orange blossom, and woods accord– all bottled up inside of a sleek, black lacquer bottle.
  — Akili King, Essence, 8 Nov. 2023
• This time the liquid is pretty straightforward—a 10-year-old rye whiskey bottled at cask strength—but that surely won’t stop collectors from snapping this bottle up.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2023
• Hours before heavy rains swamped Chicago and Cook County suburbs on July 2, the region’s $3.8 billion flood-control project appeared ready as can be to bottle up storm runoff.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2023
• The Ravens are still figuring out how to use Flowers, who was frequently bottled up when Jackson targeted him with quick outside throws.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
• For decades, wealthy Americans have been able to count on their friends in Congress, especially in the Senate, to bottle up popular ideas for upper-income tax hikes.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• The second-year standout has run for 186 yards and two scores in wins over Miami and Buffalo, and his success between the tackles has opened up a downfield passing game that has been bottled up all season.
  — Noah Trister, Chicago Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• Green Bay shredded the vaunted Dallas defense, bottled up its potent offense—and did it all on the Cowboys’ home turf, where the Cowboys were undefeated all season.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2024
• Freudian thinkers had pictured our minds as hydraulic machines, with pressures rising against resistances and psychic forces that might get bottled up.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 10 July 2023
• Wrap this little bottle up in a pretty gift bag on its own, or consider including a bottle of peppermint extract.
  — Molly Allen, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
• Lee Israel was a fiercely funny woman, but never before had McCarthy had a chance to explore the sadness that’s often bottled up in her broad comedic performances.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024
• Neutrogena’s Collagen Bank duo bottles up eight years of research to support the skin’s collagen, which makes up 70% of its foundation.
  — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2024
• Once rarely used, the filibuster has become a routine part of Senate life and has kept significant legislation bottled up.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024