Sample Sentences for
sulk
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    If she tried, he'd argue and wheedle and sulk and bully and plain wear her down.  (source)
    sulk = be overly unhappy and unsociable
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    ...sulky… dissatisfied… I tell you if my Sophy'd kept it up another day I'd have let her go.  (source)
    sulky = withdrawn and overly indulging in a sad mood
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    This last measure is the reason for Dussel's sulking.  (source)
    sulking = being overly unhappy and unsociable
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    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    sulky = withdrawn and overly indulging in a sad mood
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    I know one girl at home who gets so irritated when she can't bother you, she just ends up sulking.  (source)
    sulking = being overly unhappy and unsociable
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    Winston looked at the thing sulkily and without interest.  (source)
    sulkily = in the manner of someone overly indulging in an unhappy mood
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    But the azaleas and rosebushes next to the house sulked in weeds.†  (source)
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    "We've ridden him far enough that he'll bury himself and sulk for a day or so," Paul said.†  (source)
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    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    sulks = a bad mood characterized by being withdrawn and unhappy
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    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
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    He was sulky, and so I came away.  (source)
    sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
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    Even after Julia and her father leave, I try to keep sulking. But it's no use. Gorillas are not, by nature, pouters.  (source)
    sulking = being overly upset and sad
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    "Then--it's all off?" Candy asked sulkily.  (source)
    sulkily = in an excessively disappointed and unhappy manner
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