was bottling
- past progressive of bottle.
Example Sentences
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I hadn’t really cried and was bottling a lot up.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2017
From the early days the Coca-Cola company looked to expand worldwide, and by the early 1900s it was bottling the drink in Asia and Europe.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2012
The big San Miguel Brewery was bottling beer and Coca-Cola, but the entire output was being taken by the Army.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was all trim and soldierly, but he was bottling up his sense of annoyance for the benefit of Cram and his people.
From Waring's Peril by King, Charles
Beauregard with a handful of veterans and a few State troops was "bottling up Butler" on the James.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus
