How To Use Sulk In A Sentence

He's sulking in a corner somewhere because I wouldn't let him have a second bar of chocolate.
Poor Sulkorig is dead by misadventure, his head broken by the hoof of the Lord Constable's horse. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
The cats would be livid, showing their displeasure by sulkily shunning their food and refusing to climb into bed for a goodnight cuddle. SANDS OF TIME
Traditional dances - kozachok, hopak, metelytsia, kolomyika, hutsulka, and arkan - differ by rhythmic figures, choreography, region, and sometimes by gender, but share a duple meter.
In the meantime, carry on with your sulk if you wish.

I'm not one of those players that will sulk or anything like that. The Sun
Even this season that represents the death of the garden is a vital one for our Japanese gardener, while our western gardener sulks until spring.
Sulkily, the publicist moves to the back of the bar but Sinclair is still scowling.
She cried and stomped her foot and sulked because I had won.
After school I went home with a sulk, Kirara was relaxed at the couch watching TV while eating rice crackers.
The pressed men looked very sulky and angry, and eyed the shore as if even then they longed to jump overboard and swim for it; but the sentry, with his musket, at the gangway was a strong hint that they would have other dangers besides drowning to contend with should they attempt it. True Blue
He put on a sulky expression.
A young woman sulking in a brilliantine dress cut through.
My Friends endeavoured to rally me out of this what they called sulky mood; I replied that I could not help it, that I should never again be happy till it was discovered who it was that took my bed-fellow's Money; and that its being lost while I was his bed fellow, certainly threw a sort of suspicion on me, that I could not get over, and to labour under which rendered me completely miserable. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
I'm thinkin 'she unnerstude the insinivation, for she uttert deil anither word, but yokit tee again fell spitefu' tae rug an 'yark at the sulkin' fush. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
I have spent too much time sulking about my two defeats. Times, Sunday Times
A sulky little girl, maybe ten or eleven years old, followed a few yards behind.
Say no more, except perhaps to point out that if you want your views taken seriously in Brussels, try to make sure you're smoking Gauloises and are accompanied by several hundred sulky colleagues in trucks.
Plus, after marching through the KÃ¼bler-Ross stages of bad-review grief from "future generations will recognize my genius!" to "they're just jealous!" to sulky acceptance, we can console ourselves with the belief that professional critics bring to their work some instinctual empathy for the artists under review -- an understanding of the passion and elbow grease that go into any sustained work of creativity, no matter the quality of the final product. Ben H. Winters: Why I Give Everything Five Stars
‘I'm not signing this, it's preposterous, he's an adult,’ my husband says, hurling the papers sulkily across the room.
Never was a fête given by a sulkier host than King Otho that day proved to be. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
You must promise me that you won't sulk if I tell you all about it.
So, if Pitt was a sulking, dope-smoking loser during his marriage to Aniston, that wasn't his fault, it was hers – yeah, damn her and her wifely love and loyalty! Kelis reveals the face of casual British racism | Barbara Ellen
The potential for serious injury is high, says the report, and the racing of horses and sulkies near the Rising Sun, on Long Marton Road, at more than 30 mph, with several hundred spectators, gives the most grave concerns.
It's not about throwing your arms about sulking and fouling. The Sun
It is just important now that we do not sulk or wallow in self-pity. Times, Sunday Times
Now the little one had often heard this point explained, but she felt small disposition to give up her knowledge at this demand; so she only looked at Miss Asphyxia in sulky silence. Oldtown Folks
The discrepancy between sporting high-achiever and sulking man-child was never more evident.
One of our cats occasionally suffers from eosinophilic granuloma, which manifests itself in a very swollen lip making him look sulkier than usual. Poor Ferris
My friend thinks we are traitors and sulks and snaps at us if we don't react to situations the same way she does.
Would the other one sulk about it? Times, Sunday Times
Some have said that Malvolios treatment borders on cruel and I admit Brown is now so pathetic it is becoming hard to watch … then again Achilles whose sulking in his tent and obsession with his servant is played for laughs in Troilus and Cressida. Labour Play The Race Card Again
It's as if your formative years have passed and you've turned into a surly teenager, sulking in your fizzing sack, staring at your yeasty sock, explaining your version of the world to anyone who will listen.
At first he was like to sulk in the style of a hawk who has failed of his swoop; but seeing his enemy arising slowly with grunts, and action nodose and angular -- rather than flexibly graceful -- contempt became the uppermost feature of his mind. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
This album is full of self-pitying dirges which give the impression of a slightly sad man-child sulking about girls in his bedroom.
Sit down and sulk or get up and go? Times, Sunday Times
Oh, I do have this screencap from the Howard Ends skybox, grumpy Nareth getting a "time out" with only Sulk Bunny and Captain Spaulding for company. "We are accidents, waiting to happen."
When not speaking he glowers and sulks, his head moving about the Chamber as he seeks out the source of the next outrage he perceives is being committed upon him. McBlackadder The Dancing Bear
It also means I haven't had any time to sit and sulk. The Sun
Childhood birthday parties are made of sulks and strops, and are all the better for it.
‘We don't know it's her,’ muttered Ross sulkily.
They were temperamental opposites: He was a screamer, and she was a sulker.
The sulker needs to learn not to take the fiery outbursts personally and optimally allow the shouter a few minutes of venting before taking leave of the scene. Pega Ren: What's Your Anger Style?
Pocket, who had been expelled from the company by common consent, went sulkily away towards her hammock, for she was the fairy of the calceolaria, and looked rather wicked. Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
Kids only enjoy this nonsense because adults don't understand it and any parent who pretends to have it sussed deserves the weeks of sulks, slammed doors and interminable sighing that will inevitably follow.
He pouts and sulks, but achieves moments of inspired brilliance.
Athene intervenes to check his urge to kill Agamemnon on the spot, and he withdraws in a sulk from the fighting.
Hedonistic accommodation sunshine coast that as unreconciled questioner strongbox sulkily and neglectfully unmanful, our overhead with the grossulariaceae is callipygous. Rational Review
Indeed, while Cole has a reputation for being at times a sulky figure in public, that probably stems from a distrust of the media and experience is changing him into a more laid-back character.
If you haven't noticed, I'm an excellent sulker.
He turned his back and sulked.
Cactus Kate censured for egregious use of the word numpty and sulks when Moet runs out in Hong Kong video conference centre. Whale Oil Beef Hooked
Across the nation fights break out in living rooms as sulky teenagers beat their younger siblings senseless with remote controls in an effort to watch their favourite anti-heroes scream on BBC2.
It's not about throwing your arms about sulking and fouling. The Sun
It also means I haven't had any time to sit and sulk. The Sun
When I was boy, three score and ten years later, the trotters still ran, pulling sulkies, the two wheels spinning so fast the spokes were a blur. Twilight of the Trotters
I still sulk when asked to empty the dishwasher. Times, Sunday Times
That sulky face of his isn't about to get any happier, then. The Sun
Sit down and sulk or get up and go? Times, Sunday Times
Terms & Expressions: la bouderie (f) = sulkiness, (fit of the) sulks bouder quelqu'un = to refuse to have anything to do with someone avoir des succès de boudoir = to be successful with women un boudoir = a private sitting room; also a finger-shaped cookie or cake known in English as a "ladyfinger French Word-A-Day:
Now, a sulky is a vehicle built to accommodate two people only, and those two people have to sit fairly close together. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life
But the boy Mohammed being by me objurgated-for I remarked in him a jaunty demeanour combined with neglectfulness of ceremonies-saluted it sulkily, muttering the while hints about the holiness of his birthplace exempting him from the trouble of stooping. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Do you have a Gemini chatterbox or a Scorpio sulker on your hands?
Jo was in a sulk upstairs.
Like days of yore when athletes would race horses, celebs would appear in sulkies and the legendary publicist Irving Rudd purposely misspelled the name of the track on its outside, the facility is still finding ways to set itself apart and draw attention. Joe Favorito: What's In a (Horse's) Name? Maybe a Grand for Someone
Wild as the birds in the sun-drenched trees, their children skulked shyly behind the sulky wheels or scuttled for the protection of the woodheap while their parents yarned over cups of tea, swapped tall stories and books, promised to pass on vague messages to Hoopiron Collins or Brumby Waters, and told the fantastic tale of the Pommy jackaroo on Gnarlunga. The Thorn Birds
A series of bitchy comments sent poor George into a massive sulk and he posted a message to say why he would be closing the forum.
Malcolm said sulkily, `I'll be fine when this blimp 's sold. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
She huffed in a slight sulk, she knew he was bothered by Karen's antics from earlier in the day, but he seemed to be cool about it.
During dinner he sat and sulked and after a while he wandered off by himself.
As usual when things weren't going her way, Mary turned quite sulky.
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Malcolm said sulkily, `I'll be fine when this blimp 's sold. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Charles was sulking now, quite annoyed with all this.
I just sulked in one of the chairs and watched my best friends model clothes.
Bored of her histrionics, bad attitude and sulky face. The Sun
Marina is a monster, selfish and manipulative and sulky.
Bass sulking amid summer heat sense the change and big fish become more active.
Ivy glanced sulkily at the two males, obviously somewhat offended by her summary dismissal. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
By all means let's have postimperial modesty but let's refuse postimperial sulking. Times, Sunday Times
The main point about sulking is that it does not accomplish anything. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
I hated it when I was a teenager, sulking under the restrictions of life in a small village, pining to run away to London, to wear lace leggings, kohl my eyes, and backcomb my hair like the girls in Just Seventeen. *Earworms and guilty pleasures and country roads
I am still sulking about her. The Sun
I still sulk when asked to empty the dishwasher. Times, Sunday Times
But we can't afford to sulk about it. The Sun
Terms & Expressions: la bouderie (f) = sulkiness, (fit of the) sulks bouder quelqu'un = to refuse to have anything to do with someone avoir des succès de boudoir = to be successful with women un boudoir = a private sitting room; also a finger-shaped cookie or cake known in English as a "ladyfinger French Word-A-Day:
stayed home in a sulk
He was always to be found sulking in a saturnine fashion and behaving in a beastly way to Margaret or Ann.
Starlight and two or three for Moran, who looked savage and sulkier than ever. Robbery Under Arms
We might all have to go underground and sulk for all eternity.
As to how a sulker lives with a shouter, they view the other side of the coin. Pega Ren: What's Your Anger Style?
Everything _inside_ the house limp, languid, and lugubrious; the fires are sulky and won't burn; the maids are sulkier still. Nearly Lost but Dearly Won
It's no good sitting in a corner sulking and expecting them to come after you. Times, Sunday Times
There can be no sulks, no horrendous body language on the court, no blaming other people for defeat.
They have to be careful not to get too sulky about parts of a project that are in the end self-indulgent. David Chipperfield: master of permanence | Interview
If she wants to be your friend, she'll have to learn that sulking and tantrums are not the best way forward. Times, Sunday Times
Spouses sulk or stray; their adoptive mother feels rejected; their children get neglected.
He's like a sulky teenager if you try to shift him before 6.20 am during the week, but if you're not out of bed and getting his breakfast by 6.30 at the weekend, he comes mithering me to get up.
Presented with the most sublime, savage and overpowering rock performances of all time, the British slouched sulkily back to their houses.
But she will still be sulking over her cereal this morning. The Sun
I have spent too much time sulking about my two defeats. Times, Sunday Times
I sat and sulked for a while, then we started talking about something else.
Baron was not the first choice for the lead (Peter Falk was), but he does have a certain sulky presence as cynical hit man Frank Bono. Weekly Mishmash: April 25-May 1 : Scrubbles.net
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. CHAPTER XXVIII
It's no good sitting in a corner sulking and expecting them to come after you. Times, Sunday Times
For the record, here, I'm not moping or sulking or whining, I'm just reflecting, trying to be introspective.
They kind of sulk during hot summers then perk up to show off in early spring. Blooms? In January? « Fairegarden
He was as much at home in the saddle as an English fox-hunter or a Don Cossack, and the only wheeled vehicles in his spacious carriage-house were the heavy family coach, and the light sulky in which his summer trips were made between the pineland and the plantation. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
You even put smiles on the sulkiest faces. The Sun
You have to get over the 'sulk' and get back onto something. There Goes Retirement
The horse Winston was singularly unimpressed by any of these aspects; in fact, he looked extremely sulky.
But Baron Courbertin was inconsolable, and sulked for a full half-hour. CHAPTER 23
Not only do you refer to his latest little chuntering disciplinary problem, but you've put his sulky face up at the top of the OBO. Australia v New Zealand - live! | Rob Smyth
Mr Posh was so miffed he flounced into training, lanky hair pushed back by an Alice band to show off his scar to the world, wearing the sort of sulk most three-year-olds would consider melodramatic.
The culprit will then accept adverse criticism without sulking. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
It's a deuced bit better than becoming a sulking musical conservative, sneering at anything after middle-period Beethoven.
HAVE stopped sulking about being single now. The Sun
There were many, misled by her petulant lips and watchful eyes, to call her sulky: these did not judge her silence favourably. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
I guess it was time for me to sulk about the house of the rest of the evening, closeting myself away in my room listening to music.
‘Yes, I do,’ she retorted, unaware of how cute (at least to Adam) she looked with that sulky pout.
When that time came, the faubourg Saint – Germain still sulked, but it held intercourse with a few houses, regarding them as neutral ground, — among others that of the Austrian ambassador, where the legitimist society and the new social world met together in the persons of their best representatives. A Daughter of Eve
Chloe nodded, but refused to be pulled out of her sulky state.
In an act of sulky complicity, I took them all off the shelves and stamped them all out on my own ticket. ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
At second glance, though, Switters would have bet this sulky slubberdegullion couldn't tail the Statue of Liberty. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
According to the BBC's gardening wizards it will "sulk" if it is planted in heavy clay or shale. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Who likes spending time with a sulker? The Sun
The child reddened, looked sulky, and hesitated, while the mother, with many a fye and nay pshaw, and such sarsenet chidings as tender mothers give to spoiled children, at length succeeded in snatching the bonnet from him, and handing it to the English leader. The Monastery
We can't sit and sulk. The Sun
What can be conspirative for an harley davidson 2007 that is sulkily wittingly, cumulatively tightly, and enquiringly careful? Rational Review
This hope was dashed when she walked into the dining room to find him still sullen and sulky.
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.
The postbags under his eyes have lost a few bulging packages, and his naturally sulky pout seems, if not upturned into an actual smile, at least faintly curved.
On steep terrain, two sulkies may be operated together Chapter 14
I'm not one of those players that will sulk or anything like that. The Sun
He's sulking in a corner somewhere because I wouldn't let him have a second bar of chocolate.
Don't sulk and get in a filthily bad temper unless you've got an audience to notice this change in mood, and at least one person who will bravely ask you what's wrong.
Sat by himself and sulked as the Jets tried to rally. A Quiz on the Jets' Collapse
Nicky Law wants battlers not sulkers in his dressing room.
He also knocked off the considerable technical challenges in the Britten work, as well as in the vividly coloristic Five Pieces on Folk Themes by Georgian composer Sulkhan Tsintsadze. Amit Peled strikes a romantic mood
But she will still be sulking over her cereal this morning. The Sun
As I looked at them ponderingly, a frog far in the back of the cave gave a discordant, echoing croak, which started the sulky and suspicious black boy who attended me into an abrupt exclamation of semi-fright; while a scrub fowl, scratching for its living overhead, dislodged a chip of granite which went clicking down the rocks. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
It is the type of horse racing where the jockey sits on the sulky (the little cart in the back).
Now all I can muster is a sulky “my cups otherfloweth” when I survey the ill fit before my husband. They’re Real, And They’re Not All That Spectacular | Her Bad Mother
They rode in silence, Cora's a happy and blissful silence, Arlan's a sulky, resentful silence.
She's sulky and makes snide comments when my girlfriend's around. The Sun
He could be bubbling away after a convincing defeat or sulking in a corner and refusing to talk to anyone after an impressive victory. For Love or Money
Michael's face had clouded with that gloom which his father would certainly call sulky, and for himself he resented the tone of Michael's reply. Michael
I still sulk when asked to empty the dishwasher. Times, Sunday Times
But he also spoke out against any suggestion that the union should disaffiliate from Labour and said it was a thousand times better to be inside the party than sitting on the sidelines sulking.
In the end, I decided to join in with everyone else and dance - it's hard to keep up the sulky act ALL night.
A stopped clock has the sulkiest face in the world. The Extra Day
ADELAIDE 36ers officials are fuming at former Olympic basketballer Shane Heal calling their NBL import Cortez Groves a "sulker" and a "bad teammate". AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
He was slumped forward in the fighting chair, elbows on his knees like a ballplayer sulking on the bench. BLACKWATER SOUND
HAVE stopped sulking about being single now. The Sun
He could be bubbling away after a convincing defeat or sulking in a corner and refusing to talk to anyone after an impressive victory. For Love or Money
Visitors to John's farm also get to view his large collection of farm and agricultural implements and timber cutting gear and have a ride on a draught horse slide or sulky.
Understandably, therefore, Coulthard has been irritated by the speculation surrounding his future, but in his defence, he has neither resorted to lashing out at his critics or wasting energy in sulky routines.
He was always to be found sulking in a saturnine fashion and behaving in a beastly way to Margaret Lockwood or Ann Todd.
I'm not one of those players that will sulk or anything like that. The Sun
His mouth was sulky and his skin was so pale and thin that he looked almost transparent.
'The sulkiest bitch that ever trod!' muttered her brother. England, My England
And there I stuck till "stables" sounded, watching the affable sergeant outgeneral his opponents, and noting with some amusement the sulky look that grew more intensified on the heavy face of Hicks (as they called the man who had favored me with that peculiar stare) when Goodell finessed him out of two or three generous-sized pots. Raw Gold A Novel
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She looked the personification of pre-adolescent sulkiness, which perhaps explains the star quality she has for girls aged seven to 10.
Kaufman is riffing on well-connected dots from Wolfe's reportage, as well as having a little fun with Johnson's reputation for old-school bullying and sulking.
Would the other one sulk about it? Times, Sunday Times
We can't sit and sulk. The Sun
But we can't afford to sulk about it. The Sun
He had been warned by one of his aides that the cameras were panting to snap any display of the sulks.
If she wants to be your friend, she'll have to learn that sulking and tantrums are not the best way forward. Times, Sunday Times
There will always be times the Captain and Coach disagree, but Smith seems to "sulk" when decisions are made that he does not agree with 100% ... News24 Top Stories
After decades of raising and starting Thoroughbreds and warmbloods, I just assumed that every young horse was gifted with a trot that resembled your average Standardbred, minus the sulky.
I am still sulking about her. The Sun
It's no good sitting in a corner sulking and expecting them to come after you. Times, Sunday Times
This accounts for the curious recursion and exponentialism in their arguments - each stupid, petty point leads to a hundred other miniscule sulks, misrepresentations and so on.
He indulged my sulks and pouts, bought candy necklaces for me from the corner store.
He might sit down and sulk! The Sun
Adam, still in the sulks, was waiting outside the office door.
Glass shards showered down on his cat that meowed ruefully at him and sulked away.
I take my leave in what you call the dudgeon - and word flies from mouth to mouth that Blowitz is beaten, that he sulks like a spoiled child, my rivals rejoice at my failure - and breathe sighs of relief ... and all the time the treaty is here - "he tapped his breast, chortling" - and tomorrow it will appear in The Times and in no other paper in the world! Watershed
She was a sulky, angry child, who hated her home overseas.
I turned and walked - okay, stamped - rather sulkily down the beach.
He's sulking in a corner somewhere because I wouldn't let him have a second bar of chocolate.
But she will still be sulking over her cereal this morning. The Sun
A little while after my sulking, Darren comes into my room, all ecstatic and chirpy.
I sulked all the way there and then secretly slipped away and made my way back to the sea front and the fun park.
If she wants to be your friend, she'll have to learn that sulking and tantrums are not the best way forward. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, Shii-chan sulking in her room, viewing the pictures in her handphone and mumbling, 'Baka' after looking at the solo portrait of her Kanade drew. AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
And Mrs. Beetling, growing steadily sulkier and more aggrieved, was now forced to stand and listen to a fierce tirade on the horrors of a foul mouth and foul breath, on the harm done to the digestive system, the ills awaiting her in later life. Ultima Thule
They want Ed to stop looking geeky and rolling his eyes like a sulky adolescent. The Sun
`What else could I do?' said Graham sulkily
That sulky face of his isn't about to get any happier, then. The Sun
This all makes for incredibly depressing viewing, not helped by her petulant, sulky, scowling presence.
When he does not like what is happening, he either sulks or throws tantrums.
My sense is that these sorts of listings, along with the listing of the film's legal staff and marketing staff and so on, are put in either largely to make sure that the HR staff does, indeed, write checks instead of going into sulks of unappreciation, or to make the credits last as long as the music for the credits. Movie credits:
He was shrewd enough to guess that the only way to cure her sulkiness was to outsulk her; but there was no sign of her presence in any direction; and the canoes being finished at last, the gold, and such provisions as they could collect, were placed on board, and one evening the party prepared for their fresh voyage. Westward Ho!
He sulked, grateful only that he had not insisted on the iron mask, but had chosen the velvet one.
I have a disposition variously described as sulky, sour, sarky, or cynical. Old Tin Sorrows
You can't sulk or moan about it. Times, Sunday Times
The saner elements are likely to sulk and the economists are bound to predict doomsday.

How To Use Sulk In A Sentence

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