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Example sentences for "sulks"

Lexicographically close words:
sulk; sulked; sulkily; sulkiness; sulking; sulky; sulle; sullen; sullenly; sullenness
  1. In a fit of the sulks one of the boys of the camp threw down some blankets he was carrying, and made off into the scrub.

  2. Perhaps the turtle sulks among the rocks and coral, and endeavours to free himself from the sucker by rubbing against the boulders.

  3. But his continued sulks prevented them from introducing the subject, and so they concluded to defer it to some other time, when he might be restored to himself.

  4. Then, of course, Johanna sulks as girls will, and sulks are silent things, so that the trumpet has to fill up a yawning gulf and never leaves off at all.

  5. He bears his honours lightly so long as every one gives in to him, but he sulks like any two-year-old child if he is crossed in any way.

  6. And Edgar had truer causes for sulks than his spiritual ancestor had--at least before the tragedy of Amélie.

  7. Jetson hasn't been guilty of anything worse than a mean, quick temper and a fit of sulks afterwards.

  8. When bed-time came, and Philip was still absent, we became uneasy, and as I lay sleepless that night I asked myself if I had been to blame for the sulks in which he had gone off.

  9. William always sulks w'en 'e can't get 'is own way.

  10. She flattered herself she knew her position as hostess and made up for William's sulks by loading the table with her favourite delicacies.

  11. Vaiti was still in a speechless state of sulks when she started off the next morning into the interior, to recruit on her own account.

  12. She wants everything she sees, and sulks at any superiority of circumstances in another; but then she sulks bewitchingly.

  13. I'd soon knock the sulks out of yer if I was yer father.

  14. Jack, the eldest son, was sulky, and his father muttered something about knocking the sulks out of him with an axe.

  15. At first the sulks had been passive; he had merely withdrawn himself, gone into his shell, after his old fashion.

  16. The sulks were back again in full force; Godfrey was entrenched in his last citadel.

  17. There was some sport in this, but Dulness is not commonly a game fish, and only sulks after he is struck.

  18. If the colt’s head is pulled in and his croupe driven out of the circle, mental sulks and muscular mischief must ensue.

  19. Smile they would not; and when tea was over, they both slunk away to a distant part of the room, and kept up their sulks until bedtime.

  20. As Uncle Morris foretold, Emily and Charlie left their sulks in dreamland.

  21. This challenge did more to drive the sulks out of Charlie than the coaxing.

  22. That young person's sulks were not dissipated by the call, accordingly, and there is no telling what depths of obstinate misery she might have reached, had not Karl's parcel fallen to the floor and called attention to itself.

  23. Its reflection set such misery in her eyes that, without understanding, Gordon's sulks gave place to pity.

  24. What is more to the point, under his sulks he was determined to do it.

  25. Perhaps the young lover would not have fallen into his partial sulks quite so easily, had he been aware that Col.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sulks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    antipathy; aversion; blues; cat; disagreement; disinclination; disobedience; dissent; distaste; doldrums; dumps; indisposition; mumps; obstinacy; opposition; refusal; reluctance; repugnance; resistance; slowness; stubbornness; sulks