Sulky Sentence Examples

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  • The controlling levers and draught arrangements are similar to those in the "sulky" plough.

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  • Sulky teenagers everywhere should take note.

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  • She seemed to be trying whether any of them would get angry or sulky with her; but the serfs fulfilled no one's orders so readily as they did hers.

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  • Anyway, glad to know I wasn't imagining it - he did look very sulky.

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  • Instead she just acted like a rather sulky teenager, whose boyfriend had deserted her.

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  • We're serious about this and will get very sulky with anyone entering more than once.

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  • It was supposed in olden times to be the seat of ill-humour and melancholy, whence such phrases as "to have the spleen," to be out of temper, sulky, morose, "splenetic."

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  • When it was light I peeped through the portholes and saw Belfast 's dull wharves and warehouses looking sulky in the gray morning mist.

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  • If I mention getting someone in to do these jobs he gets all sulky and hurt, so it 's not worth it.

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  • Suspicious looks, sulky silences, or sharp speeches had become the order of the day.

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  • So of course Nobody walks slower than you. ' ' I do my best, ' the Messenger said in a sulky tone.

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  • The last time I 'd been to that park was as a sulky adolescent on the number five bus.

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  • Heaven forbid anyone should see him as a sulky dog in the manger over pensions.

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  • He is very sulky about a caricature in the Evening Standard.

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  • Anyway, glad to know I was n't imagining it - he did look very sulky.

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  • The "sulky" or riding plough is little known in the United Kingdom, but on the larger arable tracts of other countries where quick work is essential and the character of the surface permits, it is in general use.

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  • They are a quarrelsome and sulky race, violently divided in their political relations.

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  • Patriotism, insight, courage, statesmanship, energy, - these great qualities were indisputably his; but unfortunately they were vitiated by obstinacy, suspicion and a sulky craftiness, beneath which simmered a very volcano of revengeful cruelty.

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  • When it was light I peeped through the portholes and saw Belfast's dull wharves and warehouses looking sulky in the gray morning mist.

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  • If I mention getting someone in to do these jobs he gets all sulky and hurt, so it's not worth it.

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  • When I spot him he gets up and almost in a sulky mood walks away to another spot to try again.

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  • We 're serious about this and will get very sulky with anyone entering more than once.

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  • Examples of the emo personality run rampant on websites such as myspace, where sulky self-portraits and dark poetry can be found in abundance.

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  • Pinot Noir is the sulky prima donna of grapedom.

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