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sullen sentence examples

  • Sullen silence or blank looks can be the response to even the most promising of topics.
  • Stephane was in hysterics, which is great, because he's been very sullen recently for some reason.
  • You remark on just how much torque they've got, and you break into a grin that would make a cheshire cat look sullen.
  • Sullen teenager smiling!
  • As i knew him to be of a rather sullen unsocial disposition, i said nothing to him, but proceeded on my way.
  • Over the next few days the boys played contact sports harder than usual and carla became more sullen.
  • Sullen french faces go by.
  • Ludwig's face, previously so sullen, turned frightening in its mein, quite different to anything i had seen before.
  • Sullen looks.
  • She was sometimes sullen, cross and complained of headaches, and my friends began to notice.
  • Sullen man whose life was almost at an end.
  • Sullen resentment turns to respect and, ultimately, love.

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