sulks

Example Sentences

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"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

And as he goes off and sulks at being denied, she coaxes him back.

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2022

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

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022

“For that bit of impertinence you may polish the coal stove tomorrow. This room is the perfect place for a noisy, I might say badly spoiled, little tyrant to have his sulks in private.”

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer