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Discover LudwigThe phrase "all pent up" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe feelings or emotions that have been suppressed or restrained for a period of time.
Example: "After weeks of stress at work, I finally let out all my frustrations that had been building up, feeling all pent up."
Alternatives: "bottled up" or "held back".
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Try to be honest and clear with everyone as you go, so you don't offload all your pent up emotions on to the next person who pushes the same button.
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"Marshall had all these frustrations pent up inside him about Jackie's not being in the Hall of Fame," she said.
"All that was pent up and tied is wild and loose," he wrote of the flashpoint of the riots, "seen in sudden flames and red smoke, and always people running, running, away and toward".
Following stage directions calling for the release of "all that has been pent up for 30 years," the extraordinary Ms. Harris seizes the moment.
During the few minutes immediately following the market opening prices strive to incorporate all of the information pent up from overnight, when the markets are closed.
It was all the anger that was pent up in me.
We were pent up.
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"I was a struggling actor and I wasn't getting any work, so I had all this pent up creative energy," she said.
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