sullen
Example Sentences
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The San Diego State locker room afterward wasn’t too sullen.
From Washington Post
Juicy’s the sullen outcast; he’s gay, emotionally aware, intellectual and not the embodiment of Black manhood that Rev expects him to be.
From New York Times
When Los Angeles last saw Clayton Kershaw, he was slowly dragging himself off the pitching mound on a sullen Friday night in October.
From Los Angeles Times
So it was only with sullen defeat that I recently accepted that Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, of all unlikely culprits, had successfully ribbed me.
From New York Times
Clarke’s hard-pressed Caroline is her own woman: strong and sullen, resentful of her lot yet fiercely invested in values and institutions that somehow sustain her.
From Washington Post
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