- present tense form of sulk (3rd person singular).
sulks
Example Sentences
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"All players want to play, it's normal, it's what makes us happy. I have team-mates who want to play too, but no one sulks," Griezmann told reporters.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
He rages and sulks; he suffers feeling rejected for reasons he can’t always control.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
On slave ships, captives frequently died from "the sulks."
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2022
Still, Woodward’s prose offers readers that delicious, vicarious sense of being an insider, right there in the room with Bob, a witness to presidential sulks and boasts.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2020
“Anthony used to get the sulks, too,” said the Mellower’s mother.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
