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
The other, Manteca, was so much human refuse; his eyes were almost hidden, his look sullen; his wiry straight hair fen over his ears, forehead and neck; his scrofulous lips hung eternally agape.
From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by Munguía, E. (Enrique)
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.
Their faces began to look sullen and I felt an atmosphere as of anguish weighing upon us.
From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice
