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How to use sulky in a sentence

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After several days of being sulky, Kate flatly refused to talk to me on Wednesday.
Far from the gurnings of a sulky celebrity, such a public tirade is typical of a man who has carved a career out of words as well as actions.
This all makes for incredibly depressing viewing, not helped by Pfeiffer's petulant, sulky, scowling presence.
And, most challengingly, how can you organise a successful family holiday with sulky teenagers?
He sank back down, closed his mouth and puckered out his thin lower lip in a trademark sulky expression.
The changelings look identical, but the human mother can tell that it is not really her human baby, because it is far more sulky and difficult.
Often, the effect is like a bird buzzing a hippopotamus, the electronics here, there and everywhere, the guitar static and sulky.
After she declined a proposal to have dinner with him he returned to his more sullen and sulky ways.
But while he does the long dark tunnel of sulky adolescence very well, he is a less-than-ardent lover and vocally colourless.
They sport sulky plump pouts, heavy make-up, plucked eyebrows and slinky hips.
Teens are sulky, and moody and think WAY to highly of themselves for the most part.
For a man who had preferred to limit himself merely to a sulky acknowledgement of Blair's position, it was a significant concession.
Usually she gets so sulky and difficult I end up giving in, just to keep the peace.
After meeting up with each other and after a sulky Tor gave Spencer his wallet back, the group bummed around the camp and then went to dinner.
A sulky little girl, maybe ten or eleven years old, followed a few yards behind.
Toadie, Connor and Lou are happy to see him but Stuart barely moves from his sulky position on the couch, where he's been all week.
Many times one gets the impression he would rather live life as his schizoid alter ego, a sulky, moody 12-year-old trapped in a man's body.
Philippa, on the other hand, was extremely sulky and didn't even try to hide the fact she resented me.
The singer's voice remains a sulky monotone throughout, never sounding remotely genuine, just hopelessly indifferent.
Paul watches David and Lil's entry and gets the funniest sulky look on his face as he watches them together.
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She kissed me affectionately, and on seeing my sulky face asked if I was not satisfied.
At the club it seemed to him that most of the men were sulky and bad-tempered.
Tony was sulky, and Constance could not forgo the pleasure of baiting him further.
Tony was sulky and Constance could not forego the pleasure of baiting him further.
But this sulky, slave-driving cub must needs force the quarrel from the start.
Gene and Clark came in, sulky still, and inclined to snappishness when they did speak.
My friend, Jack-boots, now pulls out a bull's-eye watch with two FOBS, and tells the time with a sort of sulky satisfaction.
The boy hung his head, but looked sulky rather than thankful for his brother's interference with himself and the welsher.
He was preparing to break a sulky sentinel or two when all the ground of his fortalice was a very network of loaded mines!
Arthur paused, looked at him angrily, but was too sore and sulky to reply.
Selim was sulky and took a swipe at him with his paw, and he whopped it to him full in the mouth just as he opened it to let out a roar.
The cab is fusty, the driver is sulky, the morning is foggy.
Gretna was sulky and silent, and his parents thought they had conquered.
The banker looked at him under lowering brows, red-faced and sulky, but seemingly cowed.
It eddied through the sulky between the dashboard and the curtained sides.
You could go, too, Miss Dorcas, but the sulky seat's too narrer for three.
He would give the roan a flick, and his sulky would flash by.
Uggug looked very sulky as he received the bow and arrow, and prepared to shoot.
Some notorious carpers and squeamish moralists might be sulky with Lord Steyne, but they were glad enough to come when he asked them.
I see that Basil is in one of his sulky moods, and I can't bear him when he sulks.
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