Don't laugh at me, Mr Claverton, but it is like drinking in new life after being pent up in a dusty town.
When they return at night, their pent up social feelings will seek vent, it is a law of nature, and though the body may be greatly worn with toil, this law cannot be wholly stifled.
Four times fifty our host; for no frenzied strife In our palace was pent that throng, Where a hundred strong men led a gladsome life, One hundred fair dames and strong.
For a moment this strange sound would cease wholly, and then roar forth again, as though the pent tempest was striving close at hand for space and freedom of action.
Here was a vast audience--all the Red fury which had been pent up for many months, breaking loose in a whirlwind of excitement.
Ah, would I were in those green fields at play, Not pent on ship-board this delicious day!
In vain ourpent wills fret, And would the world subdue.
O'Flarety, unable longer to control his pent up indignation.
He glanced beneath the table, in the chair, behind the table, across the piano, and then he began circling the room with pent up rage.
You are told that the ladies of the East are degraded to less almost than a human condition, being secluded from all social life, and pent up within the harem's walls.
On went Mehemet Baltadji with his Turks, and met Peter the Czar, and pent him up in a corner, where there was no possibility of escape.
Whither they go Thou may’st not dare to think: nor canst thou know If Hope still pent there be alive or dead.
I've closed mine eyes that they might not behold them, Bade my rebellious, swelling heart be still, And pentits struggles down within my breast.
Tis not to be borne, Thus to be pent up like a felon here!
In fateful March of that year a cyclone swooped down on this part of the coast with the pentup fury of a century's restraint.
Some local blacks regard it with awe, believing that it covers a deep hole in the mountain in which the winds and rain are pent up.
But at last it yielded to the stronger hand of the Danes, whose efforts increased with their peril; and those pent within could sally out with ease.
So the mass of the Danes, being pent in by the dangerous state of the weather, perished of the bodily plague that arose on every side.
Disdaining to be pent up within the walls, many of the fighting men encamped outside, and boldly went forward to meet the enemy.
He was crowding into a few precious minutes all the pentemotions of his dearest dreams.
She waited for a minute, her nostrils widened to the pent odor of stale cigarette smoke that clings to a bachelor's cabin in warm weather.
I was terrified to breathe, because the pent air within it would be exhausted, and the suffocation of struggling humanity would seize upon me.
Unappalled by the massacre made upon them during the night, the sharks now freshly and more keenly allured by the before pent blood which began to flow from the carcass--the rabid creatures swarmed round it like bees in a beehive.
But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster--tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks.
At the time of the great popes of the middle ages it thought for a moment that it had attained its goal, that it was the sovereign master of the nations.
Its sociality could not be pent within the bounds of the actual.
The dwellers of the land little relish the pent air of thy cabin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cloistered; confined; enclosed; restricted
