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  • Only gradually did I become aware that the automobiles which turned expectantly into his drive stayed for just a minute and then drove sulkily away.   (source)
    sulkily = unhappily disappointed
  • Josie Pye is sulky because she didn't get the part she wanted in the dialogue.   (source)
    sulky = withdrawn and overly indulging in a sad mood
  • He was sulky, and so I came away.   (source)
    sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
  • I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won't go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together.   (source)
    sulky = unsociable and withdrawn
  • His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking.   (source)
    sulking = being overly unhappy and unsociable
  • Here, too, comes his owner, cheerful, sombre, gracious or in the sulks, accordingly as his scheme of the now accomplished voyage has been realized in merchandise that will readily be turned to gold, or has buried him under a bulk of incommodities such as nobody will care to rid him of.   (source)
    sulks = a bad mood characterized by being withdrawn and unhappy
  • Bentley Drummle, who was so sulky a fellow that he even took up a book as if its writer had done him an injury, did not take up an acquaintance in a more agreeable spirit.   (source)
    sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
  • I wish there may not be a little sulkiness of temper—her poor mother had a good deal; but we must make allowances for such a child—and I do not know that her being sorry to leave her home is really against her, for, with all its faults, it was her home, and she cannot as yet understand how much she has changed for the better; but then there is moderation in all things.   (source)
    sulkiness = excessive unhappiness and not being very sociable
  • But the azaleas and rosebushes next to the house sulked in weeds.†   (source)
  • "I'll make you something else," Khanum Taheri would say, but he'd ignore her, sulk, and eat bread and onion.†   (source)
  • "What?" she said sulkily.†   (source)
  • Not exactly sulking.†   (source)
  • Curly didn't like anyone else driving his pickup, so he was sulking when his wife dropped him off at the trailer.†   (source)
  • Bernard sulked for a few days and then he was fine, and everyone settled into the new pattern.†   (source)
  • He sulked for a while with a few audible grumbles which no one paid any attention to, but finally he fell asleep and did not awaken until we had driven up the Granger road and stopped in front of the Avery house.†   (source)
  • I thought instead that he was sulking, or brooding.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, Cassie's change from a trusting child to a sulking stranger was so gradual that it blindsided us.†   (source)
  • Ravi and I sulked and gave Father the cold shoulder for a week.†   (source)
  • To Patrick, and to my sister, I was no different—still the butt of jokes, the recipient of hugs or kisses or sulks.†   (source)
  • In the end, I bit my lip and sulked.†   (source)
  • Thomas barely heard Newt, having seen Alby sulking over to the side, away from the main group of the Gladers, alone.†   (source)
  • It was time to stop sulking about Shay.†   (source)
  • Once I got home, I sulked for a while.†   (source)
  • Everybody had been unhappy and Hatsue had used this, the general un-happiness had been convenient, but still she had sulked more than anyone; she'd been listless and had gone about her chores with the sluggishness of someone grieving.†   (source)
  • Meg looked sulkily down at the floor.†   (source)
  • Joey was sulking pretty heavily in the back.†   (source)
  • And so it came to pass that the Virgin Mary sulked through our rehearsal—a mother denied the tactile pleasures of her own infant!†   (source)
  • Taylor sulked.†   (source)
  • "Stop glowering and sulking," Chaol chided.†   (source)
  • Now stop sulking and help me finish the meatballs.†   (source)
  • He was dark, and when he wasn't sulking in silence he would tell me things I really didn't want to know.†   (source)
  • She's sulking in the castle now, damn her.†   (source)
  • But Mama had been firm, and finally Kirsti, sulking, had trudged upstairs with her dolls under one arm and the kitten under the other.†   (source)
  • And then one evening, after I had begged her to buy me a transistor radio, after she refused and I had sulked in silence for an hour, she said, "Why do you think you are missing something you never had?"†   (source)
  • He could remember no other unusual conversation with her, no strange behavior, no meaningful looks or sulks to suggest that her schoolgirlish passion had lasted beyond that day in June.†   (source)
  • I just said it's slow," Ducky said sulkily.†   (source)
  • She sulked in the chair, disappointed.†   (source)
  • If you're sulking again, I'm taking you straight home.†   (source)
  • It's more a sort of electronic sulking machine.†   (source)
  • 'Drop everything,' sulked Juliet.†   (source)
  • Randy did too, sulking.†   (source)
  • "Well, David," Lilian said in a firm tone, "the question is: Are you going to sit here and sulk about it, or are you going to do something about it?"†   (source)
  • It was typical of Tommy that once he knew I was willing to talk, there was suddenly no trace left of any sulkiness; just a kind of grateful eagerness that reminded me of the way we were back in the Juniors when a guardian who'd been telling us off went back to being normal.†   (source)
  • No guilt or anger or sulking?†   (source)
  • My room was a lovely place to sulk.†   (source)
  • "I know," Alyss said sulkily.†   (source)
  • Pippo stuck his lower lip out sulkily and disappeared into the corridor.†   (source)
  • Growled when they chose; sulked, explained, demanded, strutted, cowered, cried and provoked each other to the edge of violence, then over.†   (source)
  • I'm sick of being gawked at by you and every other mewler that decided to go marketing today" I slouched into a chair and sulked.†   (source)
  • A few geisha spoke up as well, and finally Shojiro was persuaded to ask her if she would perform, which he did as sulkily as a little boy.†   (source)
  • I just wanted to go sit down and sulk.†   (source)
  • She would spend hours in the apartment, napping, sulking, rereading her same five Bengali novels on the bed.†   (source)
  • Hades, of course, spends six months of every twelve sulking, but he realizes that even a god can't beat pomegranate seeds, so he goes along with the plan.†   (source)
  • Harpo little yellowish girlfriend sulk, hanging over the bar.†   (source)
  • She drew a blanket around her bare shoulders, and then, sulkily, shoved it off again and folded her arms across her chest.†   (source)
  • Adler was sulking.†   (source)
  • The cat caught the tension in the air and sulked beneath the sideboard.†   (source)
  • "I recognize that stalking off to sulk in your bedroom might not have been the smoothest move," he interrupted stiffly, tossing the sketchpad back onto the bed.†   (source)
  • "All right, sulk," she said.†   (source)
  • I just said I was sorry and went upstairs to my room, like a teenager in a sulk.†   (source)
  • Rina had only been upset with me for about five minutes, but Mike had been alternately glaring or sulking at me all week.†   (source)
  • 'Well, I don't want to wait,' she sulked.†   (source)
  • "We've ridden him far enough that he'll bury himself and sulk for a day or so," Paul said.†   (source)
  • May Belle either tried to push in with him and Leslie or sulked at being left out.†   (source)
  • Sulking, her eyes squeezed shut, she sat back on the couch.†   (source)
  • "Yes, Mama," I said, and sulked off to my room.†   (source)
  • The cornices had once been new, had once gleamed as brightly as now they sulked in shame, all tarnished and despised.†   (source)
  • Goretti sulkily stayed home.†   (source)
  • The way he ordered the healthy crew and passengers around infuriated the sulking captain, but if Thomas Stone was aware of this he paid no attention.†   (source)
  • Ambiades sulked for most of the morning, and Sophos rode with his shoulders hunched, trying to ignore the tension in the air.†   (source)
  • "No," I say sulkily, and flick over a page of my brochure.†   (source)
  • They sulked past her into the apartment with a series of sucking teeth and "we never eat this earlys" that were not lost on the girl.†   (source)
  • Andrews meant well, he was without malice, but Perry could have boiled him in oil-yet he never admitted it, never let anyone there guess why, after one of these humiliating incidents, he sat and sulked and ignored the meals that were delivered to him three times a day.†   (source)
  • (The boy obeys stiffly and crosses the room, almost mechanically, to the bed and more or less folds the bedding into a heap, then angrily gets his books and cap) TRAVIS: (Sulking and standing apart from her unnaturally) I'm gone†   (source)
  • The new road was quite bumpy and hill of stones, and each time they hit one, the Dodecahedron bounced into the air and landed on one of his faces, with a sulk or a smile or a laugh or a frown, depending upon which one it was.†   (source)
  • He fried it, and Jake and Deets ate it, while Bolivar sat in the corner and sulked at the thought of two more breakfasts to wash up after.†   (source)
  • How was I to know they'd write to Stoddard?" growled Shade sulkily.†   (source)
  • The Big Nurse recognizes this fear and knows how to put it to use; she'll point out to an Acute, whenever he goes into a sulk, that you boys be good boys and cooperate with the staff policy which is engineered for your cure, or you'll end up over on that side.†   (source)
  • There were occasions when we deliberately let you win a game so that you would stop sulking and go on playing with us.†   (source)
  • Uncle Al reassigns him to Earl's table, but after it becomes clear that all he will do is sit and sulk and stare at Marlena, he is ordered to take his meals in the dining car with Uncle Al.†   (source)
  • They were simply stimulants to make the Earthlings perform vividly for the crowds at the zoo —to make them jump up and down and cheer, or gloat, or sulk, or tear their hair, to be scared shitless or to feel as contented as babies in their mothers' arms.†   (source)
  • The Danes sat sulking, watching the strangers eat, wishing some one of them would give them an excuse to use their daggers.†   (source)
  • It might not be the stuff of love stories, but in the time it takes to dive to the depths of misery in a bad relationship, sulk on the bottom, and then come clawing out for air, I could have thoroughly enjoyed being dumped three or four more times, as bad as that sounds.†   (source)
  • The idea she was sulking was hard to hang on to when he was blasted by her sunbeam smile and buzzing energy.†   (source)
  • Frat Boy is sulking.†   (source)
  • Mum, are you going to join us or are you going to sulk?†   (source)
  • Moody, unapologetic, sulked.†   (source)
  • Pippa plops onto the ground to sulk.†   (source)
  • Angela was busy showing everyone her new Vans, so my sulkiness went unnoticed as I slumped into my chair.†   (source)
  • 'To make their tails grow longer,' said Hufsa sulkily.†   (source)
  • Lately, whenever Vlad would hover in front of his best friend or open the Encyclopedia Vampyricain front of him, inciting his eyes to flash iridescent purple, Henry's mood would shift, and then he'd sulk for days.†   (source)
  • Stop sulking already.†   (source)
  • I ordered a Triple Zombie and sulked.†   (source)
  • Yet no one frowns, or cries, or sulks.†   (source)
  • They finally left him to sulk on his own.†   (source)
  • Finally, I just turned back around in my seat and stared out the fogged up window, and, I have to admit, sulked.†   (source)
  • Yeah?" a woman's voice, startling in its carrying power, answered sulkily from a room off the balcony.†   (source)
  • On the track, he fought savagely in the starting gate and sulked his way through races, sometimes trailing the field from start to finish.†   (source)
  • Though it wasn't "anger" in adult sense; it was like stubborn sulkiness of a child whose feelings are hurt.†   (source)
  • He refuses to shake Rufino's hand and then he locks himself in our bedroom, sulking until Rufino leaves.†   (source)
  • You remember when Mikael was up in Hedestad sulking for almost a whole year?†   (source)
  • He went to the window, like a sulking child.†   (source)
  • No safe places in this country,' said Gollum sulkily.†   (source)
  • But as he was sulking far too furiously to touch the supper and had spent the whole night stamping and roaring and cursing, he naturally did not now look his best.†   (source)
  • Just three weeks of reasonable argument, unreasonable argument, nagging and whingeing, tearful discussion, begging, throwing tantrums, sulking, being charming, and emotional blackmail.†   (source)
  • The Hasidic students sulked, scowled, glowered, and then forgot it, too.†   (source)
  • Let me see ....are you sulking?†   (source)
  • Men limped back, sat out in the fields making fires, sulked along eastward, out in the dark.†   (source)
  • Like cottontail rabbits and chaparral birds and a baby possum that sulked and lay like dead for the first several hours until he finally decided that Arliss wasn't going to hurt him.†   (source)
  • Linnie Mae wasn't the type to shout or sulk or throw things when she was mad about something; she would just stop looking at him.†   (source)
  • It advised the woman to make a U-turn if possible, and when no turn was forthcoming it fell into a reproachful sulk.†   (source)
  • The mountain wildflowers came out to brighten my life and that of my sulking friend Cooper.†   (source)
  • Eventually she would sulk her way to success.†   (source)
  • Karl sulked and refused to say.†   (source)
  • but true: Lula's woebegone and rabbity face had sulked from the pages of six metropolitan newspapers—of a crossroads storekeeper, who had instigated immediate action by an outraged daddy's appeal to the local rabble.†   (source)
  • JAMES, very wounded, stalks out of the room onto the porch; he remains here, sulking.†   (source)
  • I could imagine the screaming and the stamping and the sulking.†   (source)
  • This annoyed George, who was beginning to feel alcoholically amorous, and he decided to have a quiet sulk beneath the stars.†   (source)
  • He sulked at the course of events.†   (source)
  • She watched as he came out of the barn and motioned to Sulk, who was coming around the back of the lot.†   (source)
  • Not far away there were crackings of twigs, small, regretted crashes; Loch Morrison, supperless for all they knew, was wandering around by himself, sulking, alone.†   (source)
  • You're wrong anyway," he said sulkily.†   (source)
  • "Then--it's all off?" Candy asked sulkily.   (source)
    sulkily = in an excessively disappointed and unhappy manner
  • By the time Martin sulkily felt that he must apologize, the car was gone.   (source)
    sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
  • I meant to, after awhile—but I was sulky and angry and I wanted to punish him first.   (source)
    sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
  • 'Well,' retorted Newman, sulkily, 'don't expect me to know him too; that's all.'   (source)
    sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
  • Though he had come in sulky unwillingness, he was impressed by the supper, by the frocks of the young women; he realized that his dancing was rusty, and he envied the senior who could do the new waltz called the "Boston."   (source)
    sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
  • "And what a regiment it was, too," cried Ilya Petrovitch, much gratified at this agreeable banter, though still sulky.   (source)
  • 'A sulky state of feeling,' said Squeers, after a terrible pause, during which he had moistened the palm of his right hand again, 'won't do.   (source)
  • I may mention that Miss Jellyby had relapsed into her sulky manner and that I really should not have thought she liked me much unless she had told me so.   (source)
  • But I turned sulky and wouldn't.   (source)
  • Javi eventually sulks off, leaving just Will and me at the table with Gavin and Eddie.†   (source)
  • Crake took the loss of all of his players badly, and sulked a little.†   (source)
  • I sulked through my first class, well aware that my attitude wasn't helping anything.†   (source)
  • After that, I sat in the empty chariot stands and sulked.†   (source)
  • I turned away from her, sulking, towards the ducks, but the fire drew me back.†   (source)
  • He looked like a kid sulking after a bawling-out.†   (source)
  • Rather than sulk, she was squaring up to him.†   (source)
  • Even when Seivarden had been in one of her sulking moods it hadn't seemed this oppressively silent.†   (source)
  • Claire begged, suddenly enthused after twenty minutes of sulking.†   (source)
  • I would never feel the need to sulk for anything.†   (source)
  • "Yeah," agreed Christopher-John, but Stacey sulked by the window and said nothing.†   (source)
  • Owen sulked about such a stern rejection from The Grave; but he took Dan's advice seriously.†   (source)
  • Oh, she's in a sulk, ignore her, students, ignore her.†   (source)
  • Zalmai trails them reluctantly, sulkily, always a few steps behind.†   (source)
  • The first two days I sulked, eating multiple Clark bars and lying on my bed studying the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Farther back, Kirsti was still sulking, and walking slowly toward the corner.†   (source)
  • Dad is always a proponent of a good indulgent sulk.†   (source)
  • Across the field, the veela were watching them sulkily.†   (source)
  • I shouldn't let myself sulk too much anyway.†   (source)
  • He sulked and smoked on the balcony while I made rice with chicken neck stew.†   (source)
  • "I wish you'd stop sulking about that bloody planet," said Ford.†   (source)
  • He'd sulk for days if he missed a chance to be with you.†   (source)
  • As The Cat sulked off to bait the seekers, Redd again focused her imagination's eye on Alyss.†   (source)
  • It made me laugh and him so cross that he usually stopped sulking just to shut me up.†   (source)
  • Thomas was surprised Minho was wasting time sulking, especially with the code possibilities.†   (source)
  • And just as she predicted, Briony had been outside somewhere, sulking and impossible to find.†   (source)
  • I sit in my pajamas and eat a lot of ice cream—sulking is therapeutic!†   (source)
  • "I'm not doing it just for that," Tommy said sulkily.†   (source)
  • They mainly walked around sulking, trying to tell others how stupid they were.†   (source)
  • She walked in silence, head lowered, possibly sulking, he could not see.†   (source)
  • Kaeleigh Has Withdrawn From the party, crawled away somewhere to sulk and cry.†   (source)
  • Good for sulking in their tents, but not much more.†   (source)
  • Don't call him that," Lissa said sulkily, eating another fry.†   (source)
  • I suppose it is to Caroline's credit that she seldom sulked about this deprivation.†   (source)
  • She began to pout, sulk, and accuse him of not loving her or wanting to see her anymore.†   (source)
  • Buford made a plaintive squeal, then clattered into the corner in a sulk.†   (source)
  • That's your gratuity," he sulked before suddenly perking up.†   (source)
  • "Easy for you to say," I reply, sulking.†   (source)
  • You can see him sometimes sulking in his window or hear him yelling for his meals.†   (source)
  • "I was only trying to help," he sulked, having weathered a storm of Italian obscenities.†   (source)
  • "You could have been more romantic," she tells me, sulking.†   (source)
  • A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.†   (source)
  • They didn't have time for games, for bruised feelings and sulks.†   (source)
  • Mattie threw her feed pan down and walked sulkily to the rain barrel.†   (source)
  • "You and Alec could go for pair sulking," said Clary with a smile.†   (source)
  • Alec was sulking alone at a table, playing with an empty champagne glass.†   (source)
  • That won't help him" This Bigwig had accepted, though rather sulkily.†   (source)
  • Everyone looked happy except Gus, who was in a sulk because he had been outcooked.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth sulks and whispers to Martha, who nods.†   (source)
  • He sulked and pouted as if to say, 'I wish I was back in the Argentine.†   (source)
  • Before he could sulk Prof said, "Hold on, Manuel; I see possibilities.†   (source)
  • I'm not sulking," she said, her voice cold.†   (source)
  • He was sulking because I hadn't been taking him hunting.†   (source)
  • He put his face in his hands and sulked.†   (source)
  • But Shasta sulked and said No thanks, and that he wasn't hungry.†   (source)
  • Because I was sad, and Emma had hurt my pride, and I needed to sulk.†   (source)
  • I was worrying about you," she said reproachfully, "sitting in an unheated temple, sulking."†   (source)
  • Bert was kicking at the ground, clearly sulking, while Wes stood by impassively.†   (source)
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