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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
  • He was sulky, and so I came away.   (source)
    sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
  • By the time Martin sulkily felt that he must apologize, the car was gone.   (source)
    sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
  • 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    sulks = a bad mood characterized by being withdrawn and unhappy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)
  • He sulked and smoked on the balcony while I made rice with chicken neck stew.†   (source)
  • Curly didn't like anyone else driving his pickup, so he was sulking when his wife dropped him off at the trailer.†   (source)
  • "What?" she said sulkily.†   (source)
  • Not exactly sulking.†   (source)
  • "Yeah," agreed Christopher-John, but Stacey sulked by the window and said nothing.†   (source)
  • I thought instead that he was sulking, or brooding.†   (source)
  • You coax heroes from their sulks.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, Cassie's change from a trusting child to a sulking stranger was so gradual that it blindsided us.†   (source)
  • They mainly walked around sulking, trying to tell others how stupid they were.†   (source)
  • Ravi and I sulked and gave Father the cold shoulder for a week.†   (source)
  • In the end, I bit my lip and sulked.†   (source)
  • It was time to stop sulking about Shay.†   (source)
  • It made me laugh and him so cross that he usually stopped sulking just to shut me up.†   (source)
  • Meg looked sulkily down at the floor.†   (source)
  • "You're sulking again.†   (source)
  • Owen sulked about such a stern rejection from The Grave; but he took Dan's advice seriously.†   (source)
  • Taylor sulked.†   (source)
  • Joey was sulking pretty heavily in the back.†   (source)
  • Farther back, Kirsti was still sulking, and walking slowly toward the corner.†   (source)
  • I just said it's slow," Ducky said sulkily.†   (source)
  • Rather than sulk, she was squaring up to him.†   (source)
  • "I know," Alyss said sulkily.†   (source)
  • Once I got home, I sulked for a while.†   (source)
  • I would never feel the need to sulk for anything.†   (source)
  • Claire begged, suddenly enthused after twenty minutes of sulking.†   (source)
  • She would spend hours in the apartment, napping, sulking, rereading her same five Bengali novels on the bed.†   (source)
  • She's sulking in the castle now, damn her.†   (source)
  • She sulked in the chair, disappointed.†   (source)
  • "It's more a sort of electronic sulking machine."†   (source)
  • Bernard sulked for a few days and then he was fine, and everyone settled into the new pattern.†   (source)
  • Now stop sulking and help me finish the meatballs.†   (source)
  • Just three weeks of reasonable argument, unreasonable argument, nagging and whingeing, tearful discussion, begging, throwing tantrums, sulking, being charming, and emotional blackmail.†   (source)
  • She'd sulk for days now.†   (source)
  • Randy did too, sulking.†   (source)
  • Stop sulking already.†   (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)
  • He sulked again.†   (source)
  • Harpo little yellowish girlfriend sulk, hanging over the bar.†   (source)
  • The first two days I sulked, eating multiple Clark bars and lying on my bed studying the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Adler was sulking.†   (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)
  • Growled when they chose; sulked, explained, demanded, strutted, cowered, cried and provoked each other to the edge of violence, then over.†   (source)
  • The cat caught the tension in the air and sulked beneath the sideboard.†   (source)
  • 'Well, I don't want to wait,' she sulked.†   (source)
  • Pippo stuck his lower lip out sulkily and disappeared into the corridor.†   (source)
  • May Belle either tried to push in with him and Leslie or sulked at being left out.†   (source)
  • If you're sulking again, I'm taking you straight home.†   (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)
  • Miss Kenton seemed to think about this before saying a little sulkily: "I am sure Mr Stevens senior is very good at his job, but I assure you, Mr Stevens, I am very good at mine.†   (source)
  • I just said I was sorry and went upstairs to my room, like a teenager in a sulk.†   (source)
  • I sulked, rubbing my temples.†   (source)
  • No guilt or anger or sulking?†   (source)
  • "We've ridden him far enough that he'll bury himself and sulk for a day or so," Paul said.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He's in there sulking. so you go right on back."†   (source)
  • After that, I sat in the empty chariot stands and sulked.†   (source)
  • "All right, sulk," she said.†   (source)
  • But Perry chewed his gum and shivered and sulked.†   (source)
  • Moody, unapologetic, sulked.†   (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)
  • "THAT'S NOT FUNNY AT ALL," sobbed the DYLAN E, who went to a corner and sulked.†   (source)
  • Sulking, her eyes squeezed shut, she sat back on the couch.†   (source)
  • When he finally breaks free, he straightens his lapels and glowers at his now-sulking wife.†   (source)
  • Yet no one frowns, or cries, or sulks.†   (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)
  • " 'To make their tails grow longer,' said Hufsa sulkily.†   (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)
  • How was I to know they'd write to Stoddard?" growled Shade sulkily.†   (source)
  • I sulked for the next hour.†   (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)
  • Jake could sulk if he wanted to.†   (source)
  • Goretti sulkily stayed home.†   (source)
  • He sulked and pouted as if to say, 'I wish I was back in the Argentine.†   (source)
  • Go off and sulk, then.†   (source)
  • Kristoff sulked.†   (source)
  • Jessica sulked in the backseat with an ancient blanket wrapped around her like a cocoon.†   (source)
  • "No," I say sulkily, and flick over a page of my brochure.†   (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)
  • The Hasidic students sulked, scowled, glowered, and then forgot it, too.†   (source)
  • They finally left him to sulk on his own.†   (source)
  • Even when Seivarden had been in one of her sulking moods it hadn't seemed this oppressively silent.†   (source)
  • Yeah?" a woman's voice, startling in its carrying power, answered sulkily from a room off the balcony.†   (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)
  • You remember when Mikael was up in Hedestad sulking for almost a whole year?†   (source)
  • He refuses to shake Rufino's hand and then he locks himself in our bedroom, sulking until Rufino leaves.†   (source)
  • I nodded, sulking.†   (source)
  • Mattie threw her feed pan down and walked sulkily to the rain barrel.†   (source)
  • Mum, are you going to join us or are you going to sulk?†   (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)
  • Are you sulking?†   (source)
  • But Shasta sulked and said No thanks, and that he wasn't hungry.†   (source)
  • No safe places in this country,' said Gollum sulkily.†   (source)
  • I sulked and felt sorry for myself all the time I worked with the meat.†   (source)
  • Finally, I just turned back around in my seat and stared out the fogged up window, and, I have to admit, sulked.†   (source)
  • He went to the window, like a sulking child.†   (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)
  • Frat Boy is sulking.†   (source)
  • I ordered a Triple Zombie and sulked.†   (source)
  • Men limped back, sat out in the fields making fires, sulked along eastward, out in the dark.†   (source)
  • If you do, he shuts up and sulks.†   (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)
  • This annoyed George, who was beginning to feel alcoholically amorous, and he decided to have a quiet sulk beneath the stars.†   (source)
  • Sulking rather obviously, I said, "I'll think about it."†   (source)
  • JAMES, very wounded, stalks out of the room onto the porch; he remains here, sulking.†   (source)
  • Eventually she would sulk her way to success.†   (source)
  • Uncle Harold was often subjected to these small humiliations and accepted them without anger or sulkiness, at least when they came from women.†   (source)
  • I could imagine the screaming and the stamping and the sulking.†   (source)
  • Whyn't you go back to Africa?" he asked Sulk one morning as they were cleaning out the silo.†   (source)
  • Karl sulked and refused to say.†   (source)
  • He sulked at the course of events.†   (source)
  • Papa-Daddy's Mama's papa and sulks.†   (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
  • '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
  • But I turned sulky and wouldn't.   (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)
  • '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)
  • "And what a regiment it was, too," cried Ilya Petrovitch, much gratified at this agreeable banter, though still sulky.   (source)
  • I sulked through my first class, well aware that my attitude wasn't helping anything.†   (source)
  • Crake took the loss of all of his players badly, and sulked a little.†   (source)
  • I turned away from her, sulking, towards the ducks, but the fire drew me back.†   (source)
  • Dad is always a proponent of a good indulgent sulk.†   (source)
  • Across the field, the veela were watching them sulkily.†   (source)
  • Thomas was surprised Minho was wasting time sulking, especially with the code possibilities.†   (source)
  • They didn't have time for games, for bruised feelings and sulks.†   (source)
  • As The Cat sulked off to bait the seekers, Redd again focused her imagination's eye on Alyss.†   (source)
  • Oh, she's in a sulk, ignore her, students, ignore her.†   (source)
  • Zalmai trails them reluctantly, sulkily, always a few steps behind.†   (source)
  • "He'd sulk for days if he missed a chance to be with you.†   (source)
  • "I wish you'd stop sulking about that bloody planet," said Ford.†   (source)
  • "Stop glowering and sulking," Chaol chided.†   (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)
  • He did appear to be sulking as his gilded eyes were broody and his mouth was in full scowl.†   (source)
  • She walked in silence, head lowered, possibly sulking, he could not see.†   (source)
  • "I'm not doing it just for that," Tommy said sulkily.†   (source)
  • Don't call him that," Lissa said sulkily, eating another fry.†   (source)
  • A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.†   (source)
  • "Easy for you to say," I reply, sulking.†   (source)
  • Bert was kicking at the ground, clearly sulking, while Wes stood by impassively.†   (source)
  • That's your gratuity," he sulked before suddenly perking up.†   (source)
  • I suppose it is to Caroline's credit that she seldom sulked about this deprivation.†   (source)
  • Good for sulking in their tents, but not much more.†   (source)
  • I knew I had offended her with my antisocial behavior, and she was sulking.†   (source)
  • You can see him sometimes sulking in his window or hear him yelling for his meals.†   (source)
  • She began to pout, sulk, and accuse him of not loving her or wanting to see her anymore.†   (source)
  • "Your Majesty may say your pleasure," said Glozelle sulkily.†   (source)
  • Tom sits sulking in a chair, taking tea and biscuits.†   (source)
  • Kaeleigh Has Withdrawn From the party, crawled away somewhere to sulk and cry.†   (source)
  • He looked like a kid sulking after a bawling-out.†   (source)
  • She was being quietly respectful of my sulking.†   (source)
  • His kid is too busy sulking about the unfairness of it all while playing catch like a blind man.†   (source)
  • I shouldn't let myself sulk too much anyway.†   (source)
  • Buford made a plaintive squeal, then clattered into the corner in a sulk.†   (source)
  • Javi eventually sulks off, leaving just Will and me at the table with Gavin and Eddie.†   (source)
  • That won't help him" This Bigwig had accepted, though rather sulkily.†   (source)
  • Before he could sulk Prof said, "Hold on, Manuel; I see possibilities.†   (source)
  • And Theon, if he lived, was just as hopeless, a boy of sulks and smiles.†   (source)
  • Alec was sulking alone at a table, playing with an empty champagne glass.†   (source)
  • Because I was sad, and Emma had hurt my pride, and I needed to sulk.†   (source)
  • Everyone looked happy except Gus, who was in a sulk because he had been outcooked.†   (source)
  • He put his face in his hands and sulked.†   (source)
  • Little Arliss sat in the dog run and sulked while I packed water from the spring.†   (source)
  • "You could have been more romantic," she tells me, sulking.†   (source)
  • I'm not sulking," she said, her voice cold.†   (source)
  • When he'd come with Sounis's marriage proposals, I had been sulking in my rooms.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth sulks and whispers to Martha, who nods.†   (source)
  • "You and Alec could go for pair sulking," said Clary with a smile.†   (source)
  • "Food for one sulking Black Forest lymrill," he growled, stepping back as the bin shook.†   (source)
  • "I shouldn't want to interrupt your sulking by the fireside."†   (source)
  • He was sulking because I hadn't been taking him hunting.†   (source)
  • I was worrying about you," she said reproachfully, "sitting in an unheated temple, sulking."†   (source)
  • MARTHA: Poor Georgie-Porgie, put-upon-pie, (As he sulks) Awwwwww. what are you doing?†   (source)
  • Nikabrik sulkily promised to behave, and the other two asked Caspian to tell his whole story.†   (source)
  • "I was only trying to help," he sulked, having weathered a storm of Italian obscenities.†   (source)
  • Doc Daneeka was a very neat, clean man whose idea of a good time was to sulk.†   (source)
  • I sulked through the first few bites of my stew before I noticed how good it was.†   (source)
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