Sentence examples for bottling out from inspiring English sources

Does it spring from some inadequacy he's trying to cover up, he wonders, before bottling out: "I won't go into that".

Godson defended the report in its entirety, with a fierceness - he accused Newsnight of "bottling out", and Paxman of not being "in command of the facts" - that was either justified or very misjudged.

It would be easier not to bother writing love scenes at all, just leave them out, stop when the bedroom door closes, but I think that's bottling out, and anyway I quite enjoy reading it.

Meanwhile, at the Draper household, Betty's had enough of Don bottling out of disciplining the kids.

Come along and watch if you're bottling out of the trek.' A sumptuous breakfast greeted me early next morning.

There are many in the Tory party who still think Johnson is the answer to the party's problems – in spite of having been a third-rate foreign secretary (second-rate is too generous), of bottling out of the Heathrow vote, of dismissing Theresa May's negotiating tactics by praising Trump's, and of many other offences.

Leaders of the most powerful country in the world have bottled out, albeit for understandable reasons.

When Kenny allocated Billy Bragg to Room 4, he bottled out, muttering something about The Shining.

"Thought you two had bottled out!" says one major to his brother officers, on the training ground.

Some US church leaders were upset he might be, but the BBC bottled out, saying, "Tinky Winky is simply a sweet baby with a magic bag".

I bottled out and I was homesick and I came home.