sullen
Example Sentences
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He was almost sullen, which was very unlike him, but I understood now why he’d been quieter than usual.
From Literature
Two boys—tall, thickset teens—trailed behind her, clad in threadbare suits, looking bored and sullen.
From Literature
Saturday Caracas time when the detonations began, lighting up the sullen sky like a post-New Year’s fireworks display.
From Los Angeles Times
But to bemoan the barely audible banality of it all – the dull motives, the mumbled attempts to shift blame, the sullen complaints about prison life and unsatisfactory psychiatric evaluations - is to miss the truth.
From BBC
He said the teenager came across as an "unremarkable, sullen, untalkative, gawky teenage boy" during their sessions together.
From BBC
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