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Example sentences for "sulkily"

Lexicographically close words:
sulfur; sulfuric; sulfurous; sulk; sulked; sulkiness; sulking; sulks; sulky; sulle
  1. September, that army had raised the siege of Hereford, and had sulkily gone northward as far as Yorkshire, as if with the intention of leaving England altogether.

  2. The boy went sulkily to the box under the lilac-bush and returned with the revolver.

  3. At the mention of the dread chieftain's name the Phelps boy daunted a trifle, but he still sulkily murmured, "Well, you knew it was me.

  4. As soon as she had recovered her breath a little, she called out to the White King, who was sitting sulkily among the ashes, 'Mind the volcano!

  5. Frere, overawed by the strange light which gleamed in the eyes of his companion, shifted sulkily back to his place.

  6. She drew herself up, however, and held out her hand to a man who came rapidly across the misshapen shadows, thrown by the sulkily swinging lantern, to meet her.

  7. He sulkily raised a hand as he passed me, either to rectify the position of his straw hat, or to offer a tardy apology.

  8. Some grooms tie a wisp of hay round the bit, with intent to keep the mouth occupied, so that the beast does not sulkily hang in his bit all the time and spoil his mouth.

  9. Sulkily men were saddling and preparing for the road.

  10. It made her feel cross to see Pennie take it so quietly, and, refusing to go into the house with her, she marched off rather sulkily by herself.

  11. He sat looking sulkily at the antique, and when Ambrose laughed he had half a mind to take up his spade and smash it.

  12. Don, as he went sulkily back to his basket.

  13. Rossitur, half sulkily and half angrily; "and besides, I made none.

  14. The two men sat sulkily in the bottom of the boat, which now was actually flying through the water.

  15. I know where they are," he sulkily concluded.

  16. I shouted sulkily that I was coming, and, after a decent delay, I took up my saddle and bags and went down.

  17. Then he thought better of it, and, raising his hand, pointed sulkily upwards.

  18. He nodded sulkily in answer to my greeting, and cast a half-shamed, half-angry look at me out of the corners of his eyes.

  19. And he got up very sulkily and crossed over to the other side of the court.

  20. Dormouse sulkily remarked, "If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself.

  21. The men sate sulkily about the deck, and whistled for a wind; the sails flapped idly against the masts; and the ship rolled in the long troughs of the sea, till her yard-arms almost dipped right and left.

  22. He spoke as one having authority, but the supposed merchant answered sulkily as he unwound his close-draped shawl, so disclosing, in truth, the slender spareness and the high pallid features of the envoy from Sinde.

  23. I'll give you forty dollars for the dog," said the muddy man sulkily to the Boy.

  24. And so it was arranged, Sato-Koto sulkily assenting.

  25. After a few moments' delay there issued from the door of the hut the wreck of a man, with long hair and a month-old beard, who stood sulkily before the Commissioner.

  26. It is a thousand times better to be blowing bubbles that, though fragile, are very fair than to move sulkily about the world telling all the blowers of bubbles that their beautiful bubbles must burst.

  27. They snarled out their remonstrance at our intrusion upon their wonted solitude, and then again lapsed sulkily into silence.

  28. The dog, who evidently had a general theory that all Indians would bear watching, lay down again sulkily on the bed, and Felipe advanced to the fireplace.

  29. He put out his hand as if to take the rifle for the purpose, but the Navajo sulkily caught it up himself.

  30. Each man, sulkily sheathing his sombrero, obeyed, and quitted the camarilla.

  31. Very sulkily the two elegant doll-ladies got out of their carriage, not daring to disobey, and passed by Ann, noses in the air, without so much as a nod.

  32. As he called out these two names, two very fat, sleepy boys, looking like pillows with strings tied round their waists, slouched from behind the rock where they had been waiting, and stood sulkily at attention.

  33. Very sulkily he followed his brother out of the cabin, but when the two had mounted to the deck Peter's sulks gave way to a burst of giggles at the sight of Growler and Prowler.

  34. I retired sulkily to my seat, saying I would thrash any one who insulted Smith in my presence, at which the others sneered.

  35. So I sat down again in my corner and sulkily watched the first glimmers of dawn peep in at the little window.

  36. Once they passed a fragment of road which had been washed away; the driver pointing to it said something sulkily about "frane" on the "other side.

  37. There was no cordiality between them, and Kitty was often sharply or sulkily certain that Mary was to be counted among those hostile forces with which, in some of her moods, the world seemed to her to bristle.

  38. Against his will he turned, and, seeing the head of Maud Lindesay, her pouting lips and beckoning finger, he went sulkily back.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sulkily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    grimly; perversely; reluctantly