bottle
noun
a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.
had been bottling
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past perfect progressiveof bottle.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Bensman said the heightened levels are because Mexico had been bottling people up Tapachula, near its own southern border with Guatemala.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
Sunday writing Telegram posts and realized how much she had been bottling up due to Instagram’s rules.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2022
He had, for example, determined in the last few years that he had been bottling the Copain wines too soon, leaving them too tightly wound when consumers popped the corks.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
After Collins' death, Select Brands — which had been bottling his sauce for decades and filed a trademark for the term "Mumbo Sauce" back in 1958 — continued production.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2021
I was officially summoned to his presence, and had to listen to a long and wrathful tirade which he had been bottling up for some time about several matters.
From My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner
