How To Use Sulky In A Sentence

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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
That sulky face of his isn't about to get any happier, then. The Sun
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
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
As usual when things weren't going her way, Mary turned quite sulky.
Bored of her histrionics, bad attitude and sulky face. The Sun
Marina is a monster, selfish and manipulative and sulky.
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
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
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.
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
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
The horse Winston was singularly unimpressed by any of these aspects; in fact, he looked extremely sulky.
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
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
‘Yes, I do,’ she retorted, unaware of how cute (at least to Adam) she looked with that sulky pout.
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
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
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.
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
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
In the end, I decided to join in with everyone else and dance - it's hard to keep up the sulky act ALL night.
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.
His mouth was sulky and his skin was so pale and thin that he looked almost transparent.
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
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.
She was a sulky, angry child, who hated her home overseas.
They want Ed to stop looking geeky and rolling his eyes like a sulky adolescent. The Sun
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.
I have a disposition variously described as sulky, sour, sarky, or cynical. Old Tin Sorrows
A sulky guide pressed my oxygen respirator and suggested some underwater photos.
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.
At the time, ironically, the review was dismissed as being by an obscure, sulky no-hoper rubbishing the likely winner.
The sulky dogs would rather have three twists of a rack, or the thumbikins for an hour, than pay out a denier for their own feudal father and liege lord. The White Company
“The spider?” said I. “The blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow.” Great Expectations
With that I had to find a chef, face his sulky face as he finds a lemon, wait for him in the very hot kitchen as he cuts it, and walk a very very long distance to give it to her.
He traveled in a vehicle called a sulky, and I went on horseback. Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney,
Bored of her histrionics, bad attitude and sulky face. The Sun
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.
Where once the author was verging on sulky, she is now animated and lively - although not, it must be said, with this interviewer.
She knew her protruding lower lip drawn into the portrait aptly represented a sulky princess. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
In those days, at least, fourteen was the age where girls were their most hormonal, rebellious, sulky, moody and bitchy
They want Ed to stop looking geeky and rolling his eyes like a sulky adolescent. The Sun
She was a little unhealthy thing, dark and sallow and sulky, with thin lips that showed a lack of temperament, and she had a stiffness and preciseness, like a Board School teacher -- just that touch of "commonness" which Lena relied on to put him off. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
Although she didn't actually say anything offensive, her expression was sulky, insolent, and hostile.
Although beautifully shot, the film is crippled by its sluggish pace, and it is difficult to muster much sympathy for the petulant, sulky Ishmael.
She claimed to have been calling me since 2pm to ask for directions; this kind of clarified my feeling that she was not someone I want to share space with and we had a conversation that made me feel like the mother of a sulky teenager.
Scene 6: I become a sulky adolescent and have an even sulkier burgeoning sexuality. What if No One's Watching?: December 2007 Archives
So my Lord Castlewood remained a nonjuror all his life nearly, though his self-denial caused him many a pang, and left him sulky and out of humor. The History of Henry Esmond
Now, she's hoping her sulky blend of jazz will stir up interest in the U.S., too.
The boy, in his belled spurs and "shaps" of goat-hide, was lounging disconsolate and sulky against one of the front counters; she wore a striped ulster, an enchanted garment his arm had pressed, and a pink crocheted tam-o'-shanter cocked bewitchingly over her dark eyes. In Exile and Other Stories
And will Adam forsake cultured Europe for the crudities of America, taking his treasures and his sulky wife with him to exhibit (both) in a huge purpose-built art museum?
Holmes plays sulky New Yorker April Burns, who, while her estranged family spend the day driving to visit her, frantically attempts to cook up a conciliatory Thanksgiving dinner for them all.
After several days of being sulky, Kate flatly refused to talk to me on Wednesday.
And like many others, it was sparked not by doctrinal zeal, but sulky teenage rebellion. Times, Sunday Times
Teens are sulky, and moody and think WAY to highly of themselves for the most part.
Philippa, on the other hand, was extremely sulky and didn't even try to hide the fact she resented me.
And like many others, it was sparked not by doctrinal zeal, but sulky teenage rebellion. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly a rivalry based on patronising superiority and sulky resentment has become a matter of near equality and, as a result, seething hatred. Times, Sunday Times
Paul watches David and Lil's entry and gets the funniest sulky look on his face as he watches them together.
He sank back down, closed his mouth and puckered out his thin lower lip in a trademark sulky expression.
Her heart-shaped face was now dabbed with a few tears, her mouth formed in a sulky pout.
One year, you could be sunbathing on the bar roof; the next, struggling with frostbitten fingers to start a sulky outboard in a full-on blizzard.
Conor O'Neill is your typical underachiever, a good-looking, sulky drifter who's a ticket scalper and a gambler on the wrong side of the dice.
Marilyn was a complete child, playful and skittish one moment, sulky and withdrawn the next.
Rounding out the cast are her sulky daughter, a prisoner called Garin and a court troubadour, all of whom are suspects when the count is stabbed through the heart.
He is at once hugely affable and yet faintly sulky, the dogged, world-weary NCO in some ancient sitcom, say, wearily humouring the la-di-da adjutant in the knowledge that everything will soon go badly wrong.
I do not wish to pose either as a humbugging approver or as a sulky disapprover. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
Ellenborough said "Hear, hear", and even Albert looked only half-sulky, and said all diss-cipline was admirable, but there must be better ways of instilling it; the Prince of Wales, he said, should nott play cricket, but some more constructiff game. Fiancée
But while he does the long dark tunnel of sulky adolescence very well, he is a less-than-ardent lover and vocally colourless.
The singer's voice remains a sulky monotone throughout, never sounding remotely genuine, just hopelessly indifferent.
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.
Her mouth was pinched, almost sulky, as if she'd sucked on a lemon.
Don't just write off negative comments as being valueless because they are from people who ‘don't understand’ - that's the oldest trick in the sulky teenager's book.
Suddenly a rivalry based on patronising superiority and sulky resentment has become a matter of near equality and, as a result, seething hatred. Times, Sunday Times
They sport sulky plump pouts, heavy make-up, plucked eyebrows and slinky hips.
He was no longer sulky and indolent: he no more desponded about himself, or defied his neighbours. The Virginians
A tinker’s bann and a barrow to boil his billy for Gipsy Lee; a cartridge of cockaleekie soup for Chummy the Guardsman; for sulky Pen-der’s acid nephew delto ‹ d drops, curiously strong; a cough and Finnegans Wake
The sulky crackling of half-frozen hides told him that the chief's moose-skin lodge had been struck, and even then was being rammed and jammed into portable compass. THE LAW OF LIFE
For a man who had preferred to limit himself merely to a sulky acknowledgement of Blair's position, it was a significant concession.
To begin with, the _predicant_ was sulky because I had cut him short in his address, and a holy man in the sulks is a bad kind of animal to deal with. Swallow: a tale of the great trek
And, most challengingly, how can you organise a successful family holiday with sulky teenagers?
They want Ed to stop looking geeky and rolling his eyes like a sulky adolescent. The Sun
Seriously, men have become sulky load of Primates picking their ears disconsolately behind a jungle shrub and the interweb is populated by more than its share of embittered divorced males. Happy Valentines Day I Don`t Think
After she declined a proposal to have dinner with him he returned to his more sullen and sulky ways.
No I have not turned a millionaire overnight, I did not get a double promotion, my life is no less messier than what it was a few days back and I am still the sulky, morose chap you met around the corner yesterday.
Billy puts about a million dollars worth of party things, including the biggest possible marquee, on tick and brings in a bunch of sulky white bikies as hired labour.
He is extraordinary-looking, with cold blue-green eyes, high cheekbones and full, sulky lips that are happiest when in full pout.
His gloom was more than sulky posturing: when Smith sang about heroin addiction or alcoholism or depression, he was singing about things he had experienced first-hand.
And sometimes they be so plaguy sulky, they tempt me to give 'em a knock a little matter too hard, and then they'll fall you into a fit, like, and go off in a twinkle. ' Camilla
The big bird squatted quietly against Rima's chest, but her eyes held a sulky, defiant glare.
He is moody, brilliant, sulky, a cheat, and intermittently sublime.
Often, the effect is like a bird buzzing a hippopotamus, the electronics here, there and everywhere, the guitar static and sulky.
If affixation means forming a word by adding an affix (e.g. frosty from frost, refusal from refuse, instrumentation from instrument), then back-formation is essentially this process in reverse: it adapts an existing word by removing its affix, usually a suffix (e.g. sulk from sulky, proliferate from proliferation, back-form from back-formation). Back-forming back-formations
She received it in sulky silence and retired to her room. Just Patty
After she declined a proposal to have dinner with him he returned to his more sullen and sulky ways.
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.
The sport progressed with the development of the light sulky in the early twentieth century and the introduction of regular night meetings at Harold Park, Sydney, in 1949.

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