pent
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Aswan remembers taking her driving theory test: "I got so pent up about passing it first time that when I failed by a couple of points I've never tried to get it back."
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
Toxic energy and animosity get pent up, and carried out into the yard.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025
And when Anisimova’s final return of serve flew wide, Sabalenka released all of the pent up tension by sinking to her knees and weeping onto the court.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2025
Jefferson played with the ferocity of nearly two years of pent up football frustration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
The pent waters spread out into a long oval lake, pale Nen Hithoel, fenced by steep grey hills whose sides were clad with trees, but their heads were bare, cold-gleaming in the sunlight.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
