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Example sentences for "sullenly"

Lexicographically close words:
sulking; sulks; sulky; sulle; sullen; sullenness; sullied; sullying; sulphate; sulphates
  1. If you think it is worth while," she muttered, turning sullenly and eyeing me from the middle of her pillows with disdain and ill-temper.

  2. At last, in the hot and heavy noon, the North drew sullenly back, beaten on Kennesaw.

  3. So he leaned sullenly against the wall and waited for the other to open the conversation.

  4. Jimmie settled sullenly back by Jack's side, resolved to break away at the first opportunity and follow the patrol leader.

  5. Under the stars, one by one, they slunk away, bears and mountain lions turning sullenly toward the lesser beasts, but still too terrified by what they had passed through to feel the pangs of hunger.

  6. We threw our ropes in their faces, and when this failed, we resorted to shooting; but in defiance of the fusillade and the smoke they walked sullenly through the line of horsemen across their front.

  7. She looked at him sullenly without moving.

  8. A captain, superbly mounted, rode ahead of the advancing line of horses, warning the throng back into the rue Vilna, up which the mob now recoiled, sullenly protesting.

  9. When they had sullenly taken seats, with guns threateningly at the ready, they glared at me like tigers ready to spring.

  10. Horace turned his face sullenly towards the wall, and said no more.

  11. Behind them a yellow-brown cloud drifted sullenly with the wind.

  12. He faced the west and the gathering bank of "thunder heads" that rode swift on the wind and muttered sullenly as they rode, and he hesitated.

  13. Then he rose up sullenly and gazed at them both with a savage, insulting glare.

  14. He patted his pistol which, in its ancient holster was once more slung on his hip, and stalked sullenly out into the street.

  15. He stopped for breath and Rimrock set back sullenly without raising his eyes from the floor.

  16. Sullenly he and his army withdrew, followed by thousands of the citizens, intolerant of Austrian rule.

  17. Sullenly Rome surrendered, and the victors, as they entered the city, hung back before the threatening populace.

  18. Jane asked, when he had nodded sullenly in reply to her greeting.

  19. At the distance of a dozen paces walked Bob Hewett; the two had had a difference in their conversation, and for some minutes kept thus apart, looking sullenly at the ground.

  20. Don John had long sullenly opposed his brother, and had only lately been taken into favour again.

  21. Then he pointed out that he had still many blessings left to him, though he chose sullenly to ignore them.

  22. Mr. Roland Yorke, as he sullenly resumed his place at the desk.

  23. The school so interpreted it, and chose to become, amongst themselves, sullenly rebellious.

  24. If you want proof, go to Butterby at the police station, and get it from him," sullenly replied Pierce, who owned a sulky temper as well as a pugnacious one.

  25. Margaret went sullenly to the door and admitted her mother.

  26. Thousands of them sullenly refused to vote at all.

  27. But the Mexican party sullenly moved south on El Paso street, and halted when about half way to the river.

  28. So he shut himself up in his castle, whose impregnable strength was such as defied a siege: here he sullenly waited the approach of Malcolm.

  29. His sister scornfully freed her arm, and Ruyven stood sullenly clutching a handful of torn lace.

  30. He sullenly admitted to us that the Cayugas had scattered his people and laid their village in ashes; he cursed McCraw fiercely and promised a dreadful retaliation on any renegade captured.

  31. The tribesmen, unable to contend with the troops in the open, remained sullenly on the hillsides, and contented themselves with firing from long range at the cavalry patrols.

  32. He receives some moral support from the British agents, and as his people are uncertain how far the Government would go to uphold him, and also as they partly realise his difficult position, they have hitherto submitted sullenly to his rule.

  33. But perhaps the tribesmen, sitting sullenly on the hillsides and contemplating the ruin of their habitations, did not realise all this, or if they did, still felt regret at having tried conclusions with the British Raj.

  34. The storm had been gathering sullenly all day, and broke with the night fast and furious.

  35. The sky was like lead, the wind had a warning wail in its voice, and the rain fell sullenly and ceaselessly.

  36. The idea of giving up college to go on a farm had been a hard one for him to accept, but he had sullenly bowed to his father's command and then at length learned to like the prospect of getting away from Bonnerton into the country.

  37. Feeling now every wale on his back and legs, he sullenly went home.

  38. She was sullenly picking and pulling at the twigs of the hedge as she passed.

  39. She was like a hawk that sullenly submits to everything.


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