1 How long has she been penned up in the house by her illness?

2 His anger had been penned up for too long.

3 The soldiers were penned up in their barracks.

4 The whole family were penned up in one room for a month.

5 The convalescent child was penned up in the house by his parent.

6 I don't have to stay in my room penned up like a prisoner.

7 The flu kept him penned up at home for a week.

8 He picked the pen up with a petulant gesture.

9 Pen up the chickens for the night.

10 She picked the pen up and gave it back to me.

11 But when I picked the pen up and wrote down a character, I found it very ugly.

12 He was going to pen up there for the weekend.

13 I was pleased that he noticed my perfume, until he held a wide felt-tip pen up to his nose and said, "Yep. New markers."

14 A point that does not block the flow may leave drops of ink, as you pick the pen up and put it down again.

15 I could have kept him in my back yard, but to pen up a dog like that is a sin.

16 It consists largely of young men (although it admits all types) who run in front of the bulls to lead them from their pen up and into the bull-ring.