sulk
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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
“You never want to sulk, like head down,” offensive lineman Trey Pipkins III said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
“Just got to, I guess, sulk about it tonight and then get over it.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
So I sulk for a couple of days, and then I buck up and find someone new to date.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
"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 allows her into the family home as he sulks, and defends her presence to his irate sister: “I am not putting my donkey outside when I am sad, okay?” he says.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023
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
“There’s always next year, hon,” says Dad, because that’s the Dad-ish thing to say when your daughter, more or less, sulks through an entire weekend.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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
Early in 1779, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sulked back to Salzburg, Austria, having failed to land a permanent job abroad.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
Bryant could have sulked on the sideline that night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2022
After that, I sat in the empty chariot stands and sulked.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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
I've seen so many strikers sulking when they're on the bench.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
The closing argument appeared shortly after that, Will Smith blasting another weak pitch over the center field fence, one dugout dancing, the other one sulking — game over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
The Mariners lost Sunday, but they weren’t sulking.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
I left Grampa sulking in his chair and went to the front porch where Ruthanne stood talking to Naomi.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
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