sulker

Example Sentences

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Anthony Joshua says he is "a different animal, not a sulker" and "will bounce back" from losing his world heavyweight titles to Oleksandr Usyk.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2021

“I love playing golf,” said the former sulker.

From Golf Digest • Feb. 6, 2017

It also made him sound like a sulker, fixated on Trump’s description of him as “low-energy.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2015

Tournament notes: ¶ After his elimination Bobby Jones, no sulker, stayed at Pebble Beach to referee the match between Johnston and George Voight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though Garrett’s always been hard on himself, he was never much of a sulker, so it makes perfect sense that he’d try to fix the situation rather than run from it.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman