look sullen
Example Sentences
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“Buy them when they look sullen, when they’re looking away, when they look angry or sad. The happy-faced ones never pay off.”
From Washington Post • May 22, 2017
The long, defiant hair of the late 1960s falls to the floor; the young men look sullen or stern.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bobinette drew back, got up from the divan, stood in front of her lover, erect, arms crossed, her look sullen: "No, I tell you, I wish to be free, my own mistress."
From A Nest of Spies by Allain, Marcel
Ay, Messer Pisano, it is no use for you to look sullen; you may as well carry your banner to our San Giovanni with a good grace.
From Romola by Eliot, George
A cloud had come over her bright face, causing it for the time to look sullen and sad.
From The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan by Johnson, Virginia W.
