sullen in English
a sullen pout
When I mentioned this, he lapsed back into the sullens .
Use "sullen" in a sentence
1. Why did Jonah become sullen?
2. The sullen boy grunted his apology.
3. Bob looked pale and sullen.
4. She's sullen and stubborn and sinful.
5. The girl was sullen and uncooperative.
6. She gave him a sullen glare.
7. The bottom lip protrudes in sullen, worried anticipation.
8. He looked up at the sullen sky.
9. In liquor he became sullen and contentious.
10. His action was alternatively vivacious and sullen.
11. They probably thought she was resentful and sullen.
12. Danskin looked at the map in sullen silence.
13. Sullen but accurate, spiky but efficient: that's it.
14. Poor sullen-faced campesinos shifting uneasily on their seats.
15. A sullen grey July gave way to sultry August.
16. He hadn't seemed frightened and he hadn't seemed sullen.
17. Over it all hangs the torpid sullen breeze of May.
18. And you'll see the orchestra in a kind of sullen revolt.
19. Bill sat in sullen silence and refused to eat his lunch.
20. The river waters roll by below their feet, sullen or sparkling.
21. Such a sullen response is testimony, say Europe's cognoscenti , to "enlargement fatigue".
22. The bar was full of sullen men and hard-faced young women.
23. All my attempts to amuse the children were met with sullen scowls.
24. His daughters stared back at him with an expression of sullen resentment.
25. Dick just sat there with a sullen expression on his face, refusing to speak.
26. When he drove home across the bridge, their sullen sunless sky came with him.
27. 35 synonyms for Churlish: rude, harsh, vulgar, sullen, surly, morose, brusque, ill-tempered, boorish
28. Meaning "deliberately rude, surly and sullen" is late… See definitions of Churlish.
29. • The jam around Samuel's mouth was like a big Cheery grin, but his eyes remained sullen
30. Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
31. In a sullen silence he lit a cigar and helped himself to a stiff measure of brandy.
32. Synonyms for Bad tempered include disgruntled, discontented, dissatisfied, annoyed, displeased, malcontent, grumpy, irritated, sullen and vexed
33. The jam around Samuel's mouth was like a big cheery grin, but his eyes remained sullen.
34. Oppressive: "The room's air was Broody and sullen, like the season's own, full of storm
35. A sullen teacher and an Adorably delinquent boy, head buried in a book, are confined indoors
36. Talk shows hosts hate to feature writers, with few exceptions, since writers are often inarticulate, sullen and unkempt.
37. 19 His soulless eyes are narrowed and sullen, and his arch goatee recalls an amoral Transylvanian count.
38. The three boys should have been at school with their ragged clothes, crew cuts and sullen eyes.
39. Like Angela, you have perhaps found that your once expressive child has changed into a sullen adolescent.
40. Three lone boys finally started up his walk in a sullen clump, and the rest followed in a bigger clump.
41. They are bubbling with optimism when they are young but fall into sullen pessimism as they get older.
42. Susan's sullen silence, though no-one could fail to notice it, did nothing to dampen anyone else's spirits.
43. The pale woman, bosom exposed, is entwined with a dark man wearing a sullen expression and a skull cap.
44. Shorn of Oliver's physical charisma and reserves of sullen, glowing mystery, Branagh tries to compensate with a pugnacious modernism.
45. When at last he succeeded the man was sullen and uncooperative, repeatedly demanding why we had come to Bahdu.
46. 1 Pooley's Piaget wristwatch had now ceased its ticking for good and all and maintained a sullen rusting silence.
47. After a moment Fernand emerged, an expression of sullen resentment on his face and a heavy crowbar in his hand.
48. Oppressive: "The room's air was Broody and sullen, like the season's own, full of storm clouds" (Nicholas Proffitt)
49. Idly drumming phantom phalanges, Sullen Hollow barely restrains its impatience to lash out and administer tainted Browbeatings to the foes of Necrophos
50. Much more pressing considerations may produce a sullen acceptance of the existing social order which entails no strong commitment to the statusquo.