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pent-up - use in sentences
Modifies a noun
- frustration: Maybe it was the pent-up frustration for all the grief everyone had had with the hotel.
- anger: Dear women comrades, are we going to suffer for long in silence, only sometimes venting our pent-up anger against petty traders?
- rage: PRINCE'S KID, full of sweetness and pent-up rage, commands " Rain.
- aggression: The pent-up aggression of these cycles is defused by the setting in motion of the scapegoat mechanism.
- emotion: Most believe that their patients ' release of pent-up emotions in the presence of a trusted therapist is the primary cause of a cure.
- demand: The quarter point cut in interest rates in August released some pent-up demand, boosting activity levels further.
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