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

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

Their faces began to look sullen and I felt an atmosphere as of anguish weighing upon us.

From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice

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