Use of sullen in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include sullen at the start of sentence, sullen at the end of sentence and sullen in the middle of sentence

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sullen at the start of sentence


  1. Sullen but accurate, spiky but efficient: that's it.

sullen at the end of sentence


  1. Bob looked pale and sullen.
  2. They probably thought she was resentful and sullen.
  3. He hadn't seemed frightened and he hadn't seemed sullen.

sullen in the middle of sentence


  1. She gave him a sullen glare.
  2. He looked up at the sullen sky.
  3. He lapsed into a sullen silence.
  4. The sullen boy grunted his apology.
  5. The girl was sullen and uncooperative.
  6. I was served by a sullen - faced youth.
  7. The offenders lapsed into a sullen silence.
  8. In liquor he became sullen and contentious.
  9. Danskin looked at the map in sullen silence.
  10. A sullen grey July gave way to sultry August.
  11. Bill sat in sullen silence and refused to eat his lunch.
  12. The bottom lip protrudes in sullen, worried anticipation.
  13. The bar was full of sullen men and hard-faced young women.
  14. All my attempts to amuse the children were met with sullen scowls.
  15. His daughters stared back at him with an expression of sullen resentment.
  16. Dick just sat there with a sullen expression on his face, refusing to speak.
  17. When he drove home across the bridge, their sullen sunless sky came with him.
  18. In a sullen silence he lit a cigar and helped himself to a stiff measure of brandy.
  19. He becomes sullen toward his wife, and for the first time he roughs up his toddling son.
  20. His soulless eyes are narrowed and sullen, and his arch goatee recalls an amoral Transylvanian count.
  21. The pale woman, bosom exposed, is entwined with a dark man wearing a sullen expression and a skull cap.
  22. Susan's sullen silence, though no-one could fail to notice it, did nothing to dampen anyone else's spirits.
  23. When at last he succeeded the man was sullen and uncooperative, repeatedly demanding why we had come to Bahdu.
  24. After a moment Fernand emerged, an expression of sullen resentment on his face and a heavy crowbar in his hand.
  25. Much more pressing considerations may produce a sullen acceptance of the existing social order which entails no strong commitment to the statusquo.

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