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Sentence Examples Instead, they gradually fell into a sullen silence, their noisemakers clacked to a dead stop, and the truculent trumpet blasts were shushed. Any living thing which brought life and movement to stir the sullen stillness of it all would be silenced. Giving readings was seen as an embarrassment, and generations of German poets were proud to fumble around in sullen cantankerousness. This hope was dashed when she walked into the dining room to find him still sullen and sulky. The fourth ring is the prison of the wrathful, those who indulged their anger, and the sullen, those who indulged their ill humor. Soon enough, though, I'd had enough of walking, the sky grew more and more sullen, and the temperature dropped. Between his pale, pasty flesh, sunken sullen eyes, and limited acting ability, he gives new meaning to the word doughy. Imagine the moody dronings of God Speed You Black Emperor, or Spaceman 3 and then add beautifully moody and sullen vox courtesy of Aurelio Valle. He was sullen and evasive in his videotaped deposition for the governments antitrust case and the judge scolded him for lack of candor. Moreover, he was plagued by a kind of sullen, intense, nervous agitation, similar to that of a drug-addict experiencing withdrawal. In every government office there is a sullen secretary, a pot plant and a framed portrait of the leader. Bankura superintendent of police Anil Kumar said that the family members had relapsed into sullen silence, refusing to speak to anyone. If I do that, it will make him sullen and resentful and unmotivated to control his desire to hit when he is angry. The thick blanket of depression stole around her, enticing her into the depths of a silent quagmire with it's sullen truths. She's childish, sullen, moody and volatile, prone to outbursts of jealousy, weeping, rage and laughter. They were puzzled at the undemonstrativeness of the conquered people and thought them strangely sullen. Ah, London, how I love your freezing tracks, your slippery pavements, your panicky, bolshy commuters, your sullen faces. We had one girl in who hates hospitals and was so unhappy and sullen when she arrived. Most often it doesn't and he goes all sullen and broody, muttering about fussy neighbours and piling even more garden waste on the smoking heap. He grinned at her, she smiled back, the first expression besides sullen pouting and imperial hauteur he'd seen. Show More Sentences After she declined a proposal to have dinner with him he returned to his more sullen and sulky ways. Boscaini manages to say this entirely convincingly under a sullen, grey sky in Dublin. Anthony Hopkins goes from sullen silence to wordy sermonising as an unhinged anthropologist in this heavy-handed drama. Or do you picture them caked in mud, bodies swarming with lice, marching in sullen silence? A couple of tourists are sitting in a brasserie on the Boulevard-St-Germain and their waiter is sullen, slow and brings the wrong order. The Dutch of the 19th century were portrayed as gloomy and sullen preachers and educators. It squats at the bottom of the pail like a sullen garden toad, refusing to budge. He leans back and crosses his hands over his chest, a sullen expression on his lean, sculpted face. But prepare for the inevitable crash of emotions as the money is spent and the glow fades and you end up gloomy and sullen. Those who should ask questions either do not bother to show up, knowing they will not be called, or sit in sullen silence. Outside the fine rain had abated, leaving it its wake a sullen spring sky of pencil grey. After four hours, breakfast is still sitting in my stomach like a lead balloon, sullen and immobile. It may have sounded somewhat impudent, particularly in my sullen tone of voice. It's the one where he played a dumb sullen inarticulate Brooklyn paint-store clerk. His usual sullen insensibility is disrupted by unpredictable explosions of rage. He is too much of a cold fish to capture our hearts and often seems more sullen than smouldering. Going back to her tiny quarters, she fell quickly asleep as the ship ploughed its way through the waters of the Atlantic under sullen skies. How could Alicia be attracted to that scar-faced, silent, sullen boy when a man of his calibre was paying court to her? He just grabbed his cue and began lining up his shot, looking incredibly sullen. She cast a furtive glance over her shoulder and caught a glimpse of Alex's dejected and sullen expression. Show More Sentences She was trying for a sultry pout, and achieving an expression of sullen vexation instead. She drew herself up into a deeply sullen huff of feline dignity and took herself off to the farthest corner of the patio. Yet this was the first time he'd ever encountered such sullen hostility from total strangers. In the photographs that accompany the article, the rappers appear virtually indistinguishable from street thugs, with the sullen stare of the unintelligently angry. The sun, his friend for the moment, seemed sullen today, not wishing to warm the straw and heat his limbs in any magnanimous act of good neighbourliness. As played by Mercedes Cechetto, Sabine has an undeniable brashness, but her adventures feel scripted rather than natural and her sullen pout gets old very fast. Mounting the pulpit they appealed for calm and secured a sullen silence. He's no oil painting, but he invariably plays with a smile on his face, which is more than can be said for a lot of his more terminally sullen brethren. By this point, a hush had fallen over the standing-room only bus crowd, mostly composed of giggling school kids and sullen working poor on their way to the salt mines. She replied quietly, her courteous manners overruling her sullen thoughts. Spring is a time of new beginnings, but in the years that followed, I became inward and sullen as those memories took me under. Strung out on a punishing regimen of diet pills, the once genial young man becomes a sullen, self-pitying wreck. Kristen Stewart was cast as Marylou at 17, before she played fair-skinned and often sullen Bella Swan in The Twilight series. For three days now you've been quiet at a tomb and almost sullen. France is peopled with patriots in red caps and tricoloured cockades, armed with national muskets and sabres, sullen and suspicious, who instinctively curse all aristocrats. He's harder to read, sullen when you first meet him, but very relaxed in Georgia's company and given to deadpan asides that he drops into her indiscreet chatter. Following Kathy's death, Enos would continue to play Kathy's sullen twin, Jodean, in the fourth season of Big Love. Why do they have to be sullen and snappish, answering back at the drop of a hat, locking themselves in the bathroom and spending hours texting their mates? I'm not sure if Quaker parrots live as long as conures, but I was also warned that she would need a mate by age 10 or so, or she'd become extremely sullen and nasty. She played a sullen nutcase prone to hysterics and evil giggles. Show More Sentences They seem sullen, battered, and effectively leaderless, although they are as determined as ever to hang on to the dream of dignity and eventual independence. No one much noticed Elanor slinking in quietly, but a sullen man in the corner pulled up and stared, moving across the ballroom floor like a man possessed. The place was dark and musty, and the same sullen guard lazed about in his dandruffy blazer. Children effortlessly putting one over on their parents is arguably a more entertaining watch than sullen, sarky teenagers. But reappearing with calm, steadfast ray, A sealight cleaves the murky, sullen dark. Not too smiley as to cause a stampede of crow's feet, not so sullen that my cheeks slump defeatedly into my neck. People have grown sullen and obstinate, and are becoming disgusted with the faith which condemns them to such a day as this, once in every seven. In the white light of the studio the sullen mustard wool, the psychotic stitching, the brutal dowdiness snarled at the world. He was also infamous for his piercing stare, bullying, bursts of temper and, on occasion, his sullen refusal to speak at all. His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. By the time high school rolled around, I had become a sullen alternateen who wore a lot of black and was perpetually growing her bangs out. The larger stream was placid, and even sullen, in its course. Thanks to the indisposedness of her excellent spouse, this beautiful and kindhearted woman had a sullen cast to her lips, which, incidentally, was quite becoming. In the 1980s, liberals nursed the fear that we really might be dwelling in an irrelevant cul-de-sac outside of the majority American culture. That kept us sullen and mopey. The lack of laughs begins with the Emo-ish Becca arriving to stay with her dad in the small town of Sporks where she meets dreamy vampire Ed Sullen. Examples from Classical Literature The rejected postulant, chopfallen and sullen, repaired to his mother and related his unsuccess. He was a brooding, ingrown man, secretive and sullen, with a streak of wildness which he usually managed to control. Mr. P. is sullen, and seems to mistake an eructation for the breaking of wind backwards. The sky is cowled with cloud, save where a sullen sunset shoots blood-red rays across the plain. She did not see him till dinnertime, when he had a sullen headache, and was gruff and gloomy. Instead of rearing an unscalable barrier of gloomy mountains, Nature here showed a level front of sullen hostility. Most of the cases during the prodromal stage are sullen, morose or suspicious, and indifferent to their friends and surroundings. Then I heard brede's voice, wrathful and sullen, with a quality of finality. The waters of the sullen Lethe, rolling doom, are sounding too loudly in our own ears. For the accomplishment of this end, they laboured feverishly in sullen silence. When he reached forty-second Street he could see the sullen, watchful groups of men. Still as we travelled he grew more sullen, became restless, incommunicative, and muttered occasionally to himself. As for Rucker, who's waitin' on the table an' packin' in viands from the kitchen, he takes it as sullen as a sorehead dog. Grasping his snider by the tip of the barrel the man looked at his wife with sullen, dulled ferocity. From languor's sullen bands His limbs are loos'd, and eager, on he hies Dazzled to trace it in the sunny skies. It is always the same expression one catches, rather weary, rather sullen, inturned. They are not talkative and boisterous as these are, but silent, sullen and revengeful. He was a sullen and noncommunicative person and intimated that he had suited his own convenience in coming on from the West. The dusty mornings were dry and crackly, the sullen summer air clung within the house at night. Many a sullen planter eyed his fusil longingly, in the hope that Lawrence might emerge from the forests to head a new mutiny. Show More Sentences And it took us two weeks of bunking with the sullen crew and decontamination before we could pick up life again. The sullen door, Yet uninfected, on its cautious hinge Fearing to turn, abhors society. While the conquered were still, sullen, and dejected, the victors triumphed. The sullen, tranced hours verged towards evening, and Wat still lay motionless. The room was dark by this time, and only the sullen glow from the peat fire was on our faces. At the end of it the destructionist drove his hat on with a smack of his big palm and strode out, sullen but plainly convinced. So gunda had to rest content for a time, and he grew, if possible, more morose and sullen than ever. In his eyes was the sullen but unaggressive resentment of the whipped bully. The wintry hillsides were no moodier than his eyes, and the sullen skies no more darkly lowering. Mentally there may be depression when the patient is sullen and uncommunicative. The speaker's appearance was disreputable, and his manner morose, sullen, and unconciliatory. And there was a sullen, uncooperative note in his voice, a jarring sound that made Larry uneasy and a little angry. Beaten and sullen, the god again retired to re-collect his strength. The sullen Sharps would speak, and the bibulous Cheyenne go headlong. Marjorie saw the sullen, mutinous face through a mist of tears. After the first outburst a sullen anger took possession of the race-goers. But the sullen boy only muttered that she was wise a little too late. Pluto listened, and his face grew hard, brutish in its sullen hate. The youth, with his chin still on his breast, stood woodenly by while his companion beat ways and means out of sullen things. A trout would not wobble and tug in that sullen, carthorse manner. Show More Sentences Edgar, after he had turned his eyes on Mimi, resumed his apathetic position and sullen silence. He neither affects to show himself, nor lies sullen in his den. They stood in little groups, listening eagerly to a sharp-faced lawyer, or, in sullen despair, eying each other. His men being left leaderless had nothing for it but to retreat after him, which they did in sullen order, covered by the bows of the yeomen. His face had an ugly, sullen look, something of his father's dourness. A deep peal of thunder went rolling and tumbling down the heavens and lost itself in sullen rumblings in the distance. He rode a neck behind his companion, grinning as he noted the sullen scowl upon the other's patrician face. Prue had a peculiar scowling expression of countenance, and a sullen, grumbling voice. She gestured at the sullen Franklin who was sitting on the couch. The sullen shades of night soon overspread the whole hemisphere, and the earth seemed to gasp after the hovering moisture. Tom shuddered at these frightful words, spoken with a sullen, impassioned earnestness. I ordered Hannah however to eat of it, that I might not be thought sullen. In the morning they will often be sullen and short-tempered. The Colonel was heartbroken, and the officers were savage and sullen. Five sullen little boys stood and glared at her, impotently. These made for a sullen, ingrowing rage as the day grew older. And with clouded brows, sullen, dispirited, they return to the jacal. Are you mistress of the petulant, the peevish, and the sullen tone? Again there was the obvious double meaning in his sullen tone. He was torpid, and the look on his face was sullen and vindictive. Show More Sentences Here it flowed a sluggish, turgid stream, so sullen, so heavy. From morn till twilight it wears this sullen and uncared-for look. From my perch I could see the sullen heavy walls of a ridge. He grew daily more sullen and repellent, toward Albert noticeably so. One's gaze went with infinite relief from the scorched greys and sullen reds of the foreground to the blue-green softness of the eastward hills. Her eyes were a light hazel, they were lovely eyes, full of life, and capable of expressing love as well as sullen hatred. Rameau sank back on his chair with a sullen sneer on his pale lips. He threatened the wailer with his fist, and the black cowered down, glaring at him with sullen eyes. Arthur then came in and stood at the window in sullen silence, brooding over his recent expulsion. Not even the unlooked-for commutation of his sentence to transportation for fourteen years, softened for an instant the sullen hardihood of his demeanour. No further stirs the sullen soldiery, Naught but the last dread office can avail, Till she of the dark moth-eyebrows, lily pale, Shines through tall avenues of spears to die. The whole consciousness of my life lorn, my love lost, my hope quenched, my faith death-struck, swayed full and mighty above me in one sullen mass. Giovanni's rage was quelled into an aspect of sullen insensibility. Sabin with the sullen offensiveness of the professional bully. Well, this promising but drab low-budget London-set drama follows dancer Oriel as he pursues Eva, a sullen, willowy blonde who catches his eye in Camden Town. Swords flashed, long-barreled pistols roared out their sullen death dooms. Sullen and silent, the two prisoners were removed to the police car. The passersby glanced in wonder at the sullen heavy youth who, in coarse, ill-fitting clothes, was in the company of such a graceful, refined-looking girl. A sullen and periodic clamour of waves rolling over reefs followed her far inland between the high hedges sheltering the gloomy solitude of the fields. Murdstone, 'a sullen obdurate disposition is, of all tempers, the worst. Show More Sentences He laughed loudly at his own sally, but Hans's face was frozen into a sullen ghastliness that nothing less than the trump of doom could have broken. Met him in the back bar of the Sullen Strumpet where, once again, I was left marvelling at how a man with three women and an Alfa Romeo can be so glum. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of sullen? Words that rhyme with sullen What is the plural of sullen? What is the adverb for sullen? What is the adjective for sullen? What is the noun for sullen? Translations for sullen Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words sulla sull sulky sulks sulking sulkiness sullenly sullenness sullied sullies Sullivan sully 6-letter Words Starting With s su sul sull sulle