sulk
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She doesn’t sulk or complain or cry; she simply lives in her memories, and has a habit of wearing the gown in which she shared a last dance with her husband.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Kane said Bayern had "no time to sulk" and "would not let the defeat define our season".
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
Nine months later, after the New Year's Eve party where Joel messes up again by trying to defend Ellie, he excuses himself to sulk with Ellie’s guitar on his porch.
From Salon ● May 19, 2025
“She’s very solutions-oriented. She’s never going to sulk in a situation for so long or let it get the best of her.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2024
I swim in the lake provided, and eat raisins and crackers spread thickly with peanut butter and honey while reading detective stories, and sulk because there’s no one my age around.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
"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 doesn’t say so, exactly, but he sulks if I try to wear them.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2022
And as he goes off and sulks at being denied, she coaxes him back.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2022
Ramón de Ocampo, who plays Hamlet, broods and sulks as any Hamlet must.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022
“Anthony used to get the sulks, too,” said the Mellower’s mother.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
When I first graduated, I moved back in with my parents and sulked around because I was unemployed and without an internship lined up.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
Some 17-year-olds might have sulked at the prospect of swapping the glamour of the Premier League for games against Grimsby and Peterborough.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
And there’s “Gladiator,” of course, in which Phoenix sulked up a storm as the Roman emperor Commodus, a performance that feels, in retrospect, like a petulant warm-up act for this movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Little Man never acted out; he never sulked or stormed off in frustration.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022
Fig camped out under my bed, while I sulked, sitting on top.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
So does not sulking when kids don’t invite you on their vacation or forget to send Mother’s Day cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
Elio doesn’t do too much sulking before he’s beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary take on the United Nations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
"Ever since I came over here she's been sulking at me training here," Ryan told BBC Radio Derby.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024
The Mariners lost Sunday, but they weren’t sulking.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
Fornatee and Mandela began showing up late, talking back to Luma, grumbling and sulking through drills.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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