How to Use bottle up in a Sentence

bottle up

phrasal verb

• 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
• The goal was to bottle up the latter stages of Game 4 and finally have a better start.
  — Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
• The Ravens did an admirable job bottling up the MVP candidate, but not long enough.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 2 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Just as pressure may need to be released, not bottled up.
  — arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2025
• At some point, whatever is bottling up the Mets’ offense will come unstuck and the runs will come.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 21 May 2025
• 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 rebels were bottled up in Idlib for years before fighters broke out in a shock offensive and marched across Syria in 10 days.
  — Albert Aji and Matthew Lee The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2024
• The rebels had been bottled up in Idlib for years before fighters broke out in a shock offensive and marched across Syria in 10 days.
  — Albert Aji and Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
• Jalen Hurts has missed each of his last seven pass attempts, and Saquon Barkley is being bottled up by the Packers defense.
  — NBC News, 13 Jan. 2025
• The breakfast chain has started bottling up and selling its syrups in stores nationwide.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 July 2024
• And this summer, R&B legend Charlie Wilson is bottling up that very magic and taking it on the road.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 16 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Root beer and other sodas are costing a little more than last year, with the liter bottle up 2% but that is still cheaper than buying the soda by the can.
  — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 24 June 2025
• That’s what the latest Tom Ford perfume bottles up with its rose-on-rose co-distillation.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
• 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
• With 5,000 whopping lumens, this thing is ridiculously bright, like its own super moon bottled up in a tube.
  — Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2024
• In Game 1, the Pacers bottled up Gilgeous-Alexander’s supporting cast.
  — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2025
• Kayce had nothing to worry about, Grant swore; everything was bottled up.
  — Charlie Mason, TVLine, 1 Dec. 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
• The brand is the first of its kind to bottle up malassezin (the serum’s key ingredient), which works ten times harder than traditional vitamin C agents.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Fonfara had the votes to keep her nomination bottled up in committee.
  — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 7 May 2025