sulk
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Kane said Bayern had "no time to sulk" and "would not let the defeat define our season".
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
Fin Gough and Sioned Cray, from Nantgaredig in Carmarthenshire, had to explain the definition of the word poody, meaning to sulk.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
Nine months later, after the New Year's Eve party where Joel messes up again by trying to defend Ellie, he excuses himself to sulk with Ellie’s guitar on his porch.
From Salon ● May 19, 2025
“Just got to, I guess, sulk about it tonight and then get over it.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
The two of them walked silently the few blocks to the church, Julie in full sulk mode and Alex with his mind elsewhere.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
"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 allows her into the family home as he sulks, and defends her presence to his irate sister: “I am not putting my donkey outside when I am sad, okay?” he says.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023
On slave ships, captives frequently died from "the sulks."
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2022
There is a poignant depiction of a timeout: A redhead with pigtails sulks on a stool, tiny against a background of solid black.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
Inkling sulks in the laundry basket the rest of the evening.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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
“I sulked for a few hours, it was kind of like a shock,” Ingram said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
Having long sulked under a halo of anguish, Kaufmann was all the more moving in this hushed monologue, lending an inevitability to his character’s death.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
In the end, I bit my lip and sulked.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
The closing argument appeared shortly after that, Will Smith blasting another weak pitch over the center field fence, one dugout dancing, the other one sulking — game over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
"Ever since I came over here she's been sulking at me training here," Ryan told BBC Radio Derby.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024
When Granddaddy called, I was sulking in my room and knitting yet another sock in the endless series of Christmas socks.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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