Examples of pent-up

• This pent-up force of different charges is expressed in many ways and may explode, slip out consciously, or be withheld and maintained inside.

• When something is an emotional trigger and creates an imbalance, the pent-up charges demand attention and want to be released by crying.

• A decline of ethnic tensions would be expected because, after an initial period in which pent-up tensions are vented, a healthy set of nonconflictual coping mechanisms should develop.

• This would be a result of pent-up, suppressed or otherwise hidden ethnic tensions that come to the surface, or are reported more accurately in a situation of greater civil liberties.

• Gowing interprets this extraordinary degree of female litigiousness as evidence of a pent-up desire on the part of women to bring their moral concerns before the public.

• Half the 3 million unemployed are under 25, many of them desolate and with pent-up emotions.

• Once freeze and severe restraint were over, there was an acute problem in dealing with the pent-up flood of claims and price increases.

• Perhaps this is pent-up frustration bursting out after the greyness of a week's work which never varies in its rather soulless pattern.

• It becomes increasingly difficult to break out of that situation without stimulating an upsurge of pent-up demands.

• It cannot be denied that there is an enormous pent-up demand for these refuges.

• There is a pent-up demand for housing among young people who, when they obtain better work, will want to buy a house.

• They are obviously venting some of their pent-up anxieties on their opponents.

• After all, are, not these meetings often a safety valve for the pent-up emotions of the people?

• Last year, because of the frustrations and pent-up emotions in the prisons, over £14 million was spent on putting right damage caused by riots and disruptions.

• It was accelerated by the pent-up flood of imports which came in late last year and early this year.