• Our teacher then taught us several breathing techniques which were promised to result in a calm expulsion of toxins, the release of pent-up emotions and a sizzling spurt of energy.
• Try to release your pent-up emotions by participating in some extra physical activities like running, swimming, whatever.
• At the time it didn't sound like a clever psychological ploy, but rather a release of pent-up emotions.

• The pent-up waters, controlled by a sluice gate, were directed past the mill wheel, driving the wooden gears, shafts and millstones.
• A captured fish or a pent-up mass of water was, by contrast, a private good, something that belonged to someone.
• It forms a significant bulwark against the tide so that, even on neaps, there is an appreciable movement of water as the pent-up flow sweeps around the headland.

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