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sulk

[suhlk] / sʌlk /


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Rather than sulk, however, he scoured the globe, in 1992 signing three players from Russia and a fast-pitch softball player from New Zealand named Gus Leger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

She doesn’t sulk or complain or cry; she simply lives in her memories, and has a habit of wearing the gown in which she shared a last dance with her husband.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

And maybe - maybe - he did sulk, but if he did it was only for a little while.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

Kane said Bayern had "no time to sulk" and "would not let the defeat define our season".

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

Beneath the sulk was a spark of hope.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

"All players want to play, it's normal, it's what makes us happy. I have team-mates who want to play too, but no one sulks," Griezmann told reporters.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025

He doesn’t say so, exactly, but he sulks if I try to wear them.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2022

Ramón de Ocampo, who plays Hamlet, broods and sulks as any Hamlet must.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022

He rages and sulks; he suffers feeling rejected for reasons he can’t always control.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022

Without waiting for further sulks, Gilly pushed past Agnes and ran up the staircase.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

When I first graduated, I moved back in with my parents and sulked around because I was unemployed and without an internship lined up.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026

Some 17-year-olds might have sulked at the prospect of swapping the glamour of the Premier League for games against Grimsby and Peterborough.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

And there’s “Gladiator,” of course, in which Phoenix sulked up a storm as the Roman emperor Commodus, a performance that feels, in retrospect, like a petulant warm-up act for this movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

And then years later in 2021, Mr. Trump sulked about his political future inside Mar-a-Lago.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

Once he rescued Mr. Damon from Victoria Falls while she stood around and sulked because all she had to do was hold the rope that held Jem.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Few would have blamed Elliott for sulking at Bodymoor Heath training ground but he has remained positive and worked hard despite a season that has not gone as he would have hoped or expected.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026

So does not sulking when kids don’t invite you on their vacation or forget to send Mother’s Day cards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025

One such scene in the premiere smash cuts between a lonesome Chris sulking by himself at home.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2025

Elio doesn’t do too much sulking before he’s beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary take on the United Nations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

He refuses to shake Rufino’s hand and then he locks himself in our bedroom, sulking until Rufino leaves.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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