- present participle of bottle.
bottling
Example Sentences
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Coca-Cola KO -1.55%decrease; red down pointing triangle reported higher first-quarter profit, boosted by growth in sales of concentrates, which it sells to bottling partners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Net revenue increased 12% to $12.5 billion—mostly driven by strong sales of concentrates, the syrups and flavor mixtures Coca-Cola sells to its bottling partners—ahead of the $12.2 billion Wall Street had forecast.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Does it count as bottling if you were never in front?
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
So at the same time as worrying about their male classmates "bottling things up", girls are also feeling scared about how some boys and men - aping Manosphere behaviours - might act.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
The locations were changed but the settings were alike—a strip of wasteland bordered by rows of rotted shacks, and somewhere near a mill, a cotton gin, or a bottling plant.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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