SULKY in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for SULKY, such as:
1. You must not think I am sulky when I do that.
2. Hilda thought it sulky and stupid, and he waited.
3. Connie's man could be a bit sulky, and Hilda's a bit jeering.
4. But if this whale be a king, he is a very sulky looking fellow to grace a diadem.
5. There was a sort of sulky defiance in her eyes, which only goes with guilty knowledge.
2. Hilda thought it sulky and stupid, and he waited.
3. Connie's man could be a bit sulky, and Hilda's a bit jeering.
4. But if this whale be a king, he is a very sulky looking fellow to grace a diadem.
5. There was a sort of sulky defiance in her eyes, which only goes with guilty knowledge.
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Meanings and Examples of SULKY
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sulky
a. depressingly dark
n. a light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1 You must not think I am sulky when I do that.
2 Taking him in tow, she felt: I am the Queen, he my hero, my sulky hero.
3 Young Thomas expressed these sentiments sitting astride of a chair before the fire, with his arms on the back, and his sulky face on his arms.
4 You only knew the town was there, because you knew there could have been no such sulky blotch upon the prospect without a town.
5 On one of the back benches, remote in the subdued light and the strangeness of the place, sat the villainous whelp, sulky to the last, whom he had the misery to call his son.
6 Connie's man could be a bit sulky, and Hilda's a bit jeering.
7 Hilda thought it sulky and stupid, and he waited.
8 He's sulky,' replied Sikes, giving him a shake; 'he's sulky.
9 There was a sort of sulky defiance in her eyes, which only goes with guilty knowledge.
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Context Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
Context Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
10 Bentley Drummle, who was so sulky a fellow that he even took up a book as if its writer had done him an injury, did not take up an acquaintance in a more agreeable spirit.
11 In a sulky triumph, Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree, until he became downright intolerable.
12 For, I cannot adequately express what pain it gave me to think that Estella should show any favor to a contemptible, clumsy, sulky booby, so very far below the average.
13 'I have kept your name and reputation for you, and your peace and quiet, and your house and home too,' said Uriah, with a sulky, hurried, defeated air of compromise.
14 All the way across the floor, a man, newly come and standing in the doorway, saw them, started in recognition and watched closely the slanting eyes in the sulky, rebellious face.
15 But if this whale be a king, he is a very sulky looking fellow to grace a diadem.
Example Sentence:
1 "Well, be off, then!" said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest.
2 Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, "I am older than you, and must know better".