look sullen

Example Sentences

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“Buy them when they look sullen, when they’re looking away, when they look angry or sad. The happy-faced ones never pay off.”

From Washington Post • May 22, 2017

The long, defiant hair of the late 1960s falls to the floor; the young men look sullen or stern.

From Time Magazine Archive

The other, Manteca, was so much human refuse; his eyes were almost hidden, his look sullen; his wiry straight hair fen over his ears, forehead and neck; his scrofulous lips hung eternally agape.

From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by Munguía, E. (Enrique)

Bobinette drew back, got up from the divan, stood in front of her lover, erect, arms crossed, her look sullen: "No, I tell you, I wish to be free, my own mistress."

From A Nest of Spies by Allain, Marcel

Perceiving that some of the faces before me were beginning to look sullen, and others ashamed, I slowly joined my hands, and ejaculated in a deep "voix de poitrine"— "Comme c'est affreux!"

From The Professor by Brontë, Charlotte