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Sentence Examples At the time it didn't sound like a clever psychological ploy, but rather a release of pent-up emotions. Consequently, much creative, pent-up energy is now released into the art of scrapbooking. A captured fish or a pent-up mass of water was, by contrast, a private good, something that belonged to someone. While in line at the bank one afternoon, my toddler decided to release some pent-up energy and ran amok. Try to release your pent-up emotions by participating in some extra physical activities like running, swimming, whatever. Is it the Internet as an escape valve for decades of pent-up rebellion against political correctness? There is indeed pent-up energy and aggression, but much in the show is also funny and sweet. For many, the experience is clearly cathartic and helps release pent-up emotions. A pillow fight began and continued until around midnight, when everyone had gotten out all of their extra pent-up energy. There is catharsis, release, and a dispersion of pent-up emotions and feelings. When the train disgorged its passengers at Queen Street, there was a huge communal feeling of pent-up anger yet nowhere to vent it. Not only will space tourism satisfy some tremendous, pent-up demand for novel holiday activity, it will bring about an exploration Renaissance. China's economic planners are hoping to unleash decades of pent-up consumer demand for houses, cars, and smaller purchases funded by bank loans. 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. I guess your expectation is that you get online, release your pent-up culpability and go on your merry way. Naples itself is best left to the Neapolitans, to the stray dogs that haunt its blighted squares and to the pent-up wrath of Vesuvius. The good doctor's role seems to be to push Dave to the boiling point, allowing him to vent all the pent-up anger within his repressed soul. One porcelain bird skull is penetrated, acupuncture-style, by several dozen wire skewers that suggest emanations of pent-up energy or thought. It was more an outbreak of energy and emotion and pent-up frustration. The trucks seem to personify the pent-up rage that's come to characterise car culture. Show More Sentences Sometimes we just need a way to release our pent-up emotions. 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. 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. Her controlled impassivity harbored an emotional intensity, a quality of pent-up fire and feeling, a volcanic reservoir of desire or ambition. I can tell from a distance of his loneliness, of his pent-up sorrow like steam in a pressure cooker before the first whistle. The subdued enthusiasm, the pent-up feelings of men familiar with hard work, now found vent. The pent-up waters, controlled by a sluice gate, were directed past the mill wheel, driving the wooden gears, shafts and millstones. 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. I find that the guys in this city are pent-up and sexually frustrated. Executives from some of the country's blue-chip companies dress up in silly wigs and clothes in an attempt to locate their funny bones and get rid of their pent-up feelings. He punched his pillow and screamed at the top of his lungs about all the pent-up frustrations from the day. It was as if years of pent-up political yearnings were finally bursting forth. In doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel. Once he got his foppish foot in the door, he celebrated by unleashing the full majesty of his pent-up fashion exhibitionism. The increase was the result of supply disruptions, pent-up demand, low inventory levels and geopolitical tensions. In the meantime, advisors' order books have returned to normal thanks to pent-up demand. Spending related to pent-up demand for houses and some durables appears to have been largely completed. For I do sense that underneath the pent-up frustrations the majority of you are in favour of change. Increasing access to mortgage loans will continue to unleash pent-up demand for properties. Propelled by pent-up hope, frustration and new expectations, parents swarmed overnight to enrol their children in school. Show More Sentences The return of World trade to steady growth and the level of the pent-up demand ensure demand for the years ahead. Several years ago, looking to diversify, the couple discovered a pent-up demand for dried berry products, especially in Asia. There is pent-up demand, but there is also pent-up supply. Activities such as trips to the park and camping trips make sure the children receive attention from adults which might be lacking at home while also providing an outlet for pent-up emotions. For the fans, this dance provides catharsis and releases pent-up energy. He exhales deeply, like he's opening a valve to pent-up emotions. Importantly, the tight money had always created pent-up demand in these three categories, which promptly catapulted the economy upward when monetary policy eased. 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. 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. 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. At the end of the cave he turned right, where he had not before entered, and uttered a pent-up gasp of relief as he saw the old man sitting in the lotus position at the far end of a smaller cave. That said, the sheer pent-up emotion of the cadenza and the release of the cadenza did both soloist and orchestra proud. Mitchell is the nervier, more uptight one prone to glorious explosions of pent-up rage. Despite a minor blip in the first week, when Rosin recalls venting her pent-up moans at her baby, the 39-year-old says that she has found the overall process helpful in teaching her to complain mindfully. Yes, the pent-up demand for our products and services comes as a bit of a surprise, but I am confident we will respond to the needs of the industry in the years ahead. The study, which surveyed over 100 management executives, revealed that many companies have a pent-up demand when it comes to tapping into their managers' and employees' inventiveness. The outburst of tension in Kosovo in recent days is a cruel reminder of the pent-up tensions, the volatility and the stability risks still evident in the Western Balkans. However, the pace of residential construction activity will slow considerably in coming years, as a result of weak pent-up demand and a decline in the number of people in the age group likely to buy a first home. The pent-up aspirations of the masses led to an explosion of protest. The narrowing in corporate spreads is consistent with the improved economic outlook, pent-up demand from investors, very low interest rates, and high levels of liquidity in the financial system. Show More Sentences Finally, over three years of slowdown in residential construction has created a lot of pent-up demand in the construction sector and other related industries. This pent-up demand is expected to decrease in the current year. Uighur activists say the riots were the result of decades of pent-up frustration with Chinese rule. He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace. The incident uncorked years of pent-up anger and frustration. Examples from Classical Literature It seemed a relief to the pent-up feelings to sing at the top of the voice. He would like to have had a few at that moment as a relief to his pent-up emotions. He smiled knowingly at her, and Marion loosed some of her pent-up laughter. All the pent-up gall of years against the supercilia of the class from which she sprang surged in that moment to his lips. Mercy had heard all, and her pent-up grief broke out in sobs. Then, left alone with her pent-up emotions, she no longer resisted them. During this operation they continue for a time to increase in size, in consequence of the dilation of the pent-up gas by the heat. The pent-up prayer and love and sympathy of the workers was forced into the single channel of silent service. She lavished all the pent-up affection of an unloved existence on her husband. Before many minutes had passed a pack of them poured, like a pent-up dam when liberated, through the wide entrance into the courtyard. Merle threw into her voice all the pent-up anguish of an inebriates wife. To Anne, it always seemed to symbolise Leslie's glowing, pent-up personality, denied all expression save in that flaming glint. A little further on, I found the older and smaller wall, which used to enclose the pent-up inner prison where nobody was put, except for ceremony. The onrush of a conquering force is like the bursting of pent-up waters into a chasm a thousand fathoms deep. We knew that at the tide the pent-up waters between the islands of Ferroe and Loffoden rush with irresistible violence, forming a whirlpool from which no vessel ever escapes. Find more words! 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