SULLEN in a Sentence

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115 example sentences for SULLEN, such as:
1. The smoke rolled away in sullen heaps.
2. But to her pleadings, Scarlett turned a sullen face and a deaf ear.
3. The negroes, frightened and sullen, muttered of retaliatory house burnings.
4. Scarlett could hardly take any joy from that kiss, so sullen was her heart at Melly's prompting it.
5. As a result, Suellen's sullen resentment had passed beyond the point of ladylike concealment and she glowered at Scarlett.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SULLEN
sullen
 a.  showing a brooding ill humor
 a.  darkened by clouds
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1  She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  His wife was a snarly-haired woman, sickly and washed-out of appearance, the mother of a brood of sullen and rabbity-looking children-- a brood which was increased regularly every year.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  As a result, Suellen's sullen resentment had passed beyond the point of ladylike concealment and she glowered at Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  But to her pleadings, Scarlett turned a sullen face and a deaf ear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  Scarlett could hardly take any joy from that kiss, so sullen was her heart at Melly's prompting it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  The small cloud on the horizon had blown up swiftly into a large, sullen storm cloud and it was as though a faint, chilling wind blew from it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  The siege went on through the hot days of July, thundering days following nights of sullen, ominous stillness, and the town began to adjust itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  As she stood, looking out of the window, there came to her ears a far-off sound, faint and sullen as the first distant thunder of an approaching storm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  A sullen "Yas'm" drifted up to her and she drew a deep breath, feeling suddenly ashamed of herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  Suellen, sullen and tearful, pretended to faint too, but came back to consciousness spitting like an angry cat when Scarlett poured a gourdful of water in her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  The negroes, frightened and sullen, muttered of retaliatory house burnings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
12  The smoke rolled away in sullen heaps.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
13  I wouldn't like to be her; Nick's awful sullen, and he'll take it out on her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
14  'After the long winter evenings on the prairie, with Ambrosch's sullen silences and her mother's complaints, the Harlings' house seemed, as she said, 'like Heaven' to her.'
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
15  WINTER LIES TOO LONG in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
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