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"Sullen" in a Sentence (27 examples)
He is very sullen now.
She had a sullen look on her face.
No longer mourn for me when I am dead / Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell / Give warning to the world that I am fled.
He's just another sullen teenager.
Aimee was sullen.
A montero cap and a black feather drooped over the wearer's brow, and partly concealed his features, which, so far as seen, were dark, regular, and full of majestic, though somewhat sullen, expression.
Mary's sullen husband Tom was kidnapped and hugged every morning by Teletubbies.
He became sullen and grumpy over time.
Rodrigo became very sullen.
At a nearby clinic, wailing babies, sullen children and skinny mothers line the benches. Some have children already enrolled in a WFP feeding program for chronically underweight children and breastfeeding mothers.
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Still she entreats, and prettily entreats, / For to a pretty ear she tunes her tale; / Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets, / ‘Twixt crimson shame and anger ashy-pale;
And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast.
2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring. Sullen and bored the kids stay / And in this way wish away each day
a sullen atmosphere
Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
He added not; and Satan bowing low / His gray diſſimulation, diſappear'd / Into thin Air diffuſ'd: for now began / Night with her ſullen wing to double-ſhade / The Deſert; Fowls in thir clay neſts were couch't; / And now wild Beaſts came forth the woods to roam.
No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows, / The dreaded East is all the wind that blows.
The larger [stream] was placid, and even sullen, in its course.
When ends life's transient dream, / when death’s cold, sullen stream / shall o'er me roll,
Such sullen planets at my birth did shine, / They threaten every Fortune mixt with mine.
she meets again / The savage murderer's sullen gaze,
Things are as sullen as we are, and will be what they are whatever we think of them.
He sit neither with seint Johan, / Symond ne Jude, / Ne with maydenes ne with martires, / Confessours ne wydewes; / But by hymself as a soleyn, / And served on erthe.
And let them die that age and sullens have;
If she be not sick of the sullens, I see not the least infirmity in her.
[M]y brother […] charged my desire of being excused coming down to sullens, because a certain person had been spoken against, upon whom, as he supposed, my fancy ran.
The idle man is like the dumb jack in a virginal: while all the other dance out a winning music, this, like a member out of joint, sullens the whole body, with an ill disturbing laziness.
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