sullen

Example Sentences

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Those sullen teens trailing their parents toward the taco truck—why the hooded sweatshirts in 84-degree heat and 72-percent humidity?

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2025

Technically, her sullen Yelena opens the film in a hoodie — call it detention-room chic.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025

His mood was sullen, according to Meridith McGraw, author of Trump in Exile, an account of the former president’s time after leaving the White House.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2024

The courtroom sketch artists have depicted defendant Trump as bored, sullen, hostile, occasionally happy, and with a look of contempt and disgust on his face.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2024

Agent Burger then confronted Joe, who, in the agent’s words, was “very self-contained, sullen and wicked appearing.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann