in a bad mood
Example Sentences
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The technology has made her work more challenging, Wilkins says: Customers who reach her often had to talk first to bots and are more likely to be in a bad mood.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
"We lost a game and I was in a bad mood," he said.
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2024
Some of us tend to eat when we're tired or in a bad mood, having learned over time eating provides comfort in these situations.
From Salon • Jan. 16, 2024
“It took me years to figure out why Hollan was quiet and in a bad mood on that day,” she says.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2023
Kochu Maria, in a bad mood for no particular reason, was in the kitchen standing on her low stool savagely cleaning a large fish, working up a smelly blizzard of fish scales.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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