- 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
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Marlanx was bottling his wrath and holding back his revenge for a distinct purpose.
From Beverly of Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr
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