SULKY in a Sentence

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For SULKY, below is one of 27 sentences:
You only knew the town was there, because you knew there could have been no such sulky blotch upon the prospect without a town.

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 Meanings and Examples of SULKY
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sulky
 a.  silently resentful; disposed to keep aloof from society, or to repel the friendly advances of others
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  You must not think I am sulky when I do that.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  Taking him in tow, she felt: I am the Queen, he my hero, my sulky hero.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
3  Young Thomas expressed these sentiments sitting astride of a chair before the fire, with his arms on the back, and his sulky face on his arms.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
4  You only knew the town was there, because you knew there could have been no such sulky blotch upon the prospect without a town.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
5  On one of the back benches, remote in the subdued light and the strangeness of the place, sat the villainous whelp, sulky to the last, whom he had the misery to call his son.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
6  Connie's man could be a bit sulky, and Hilda's a bit jeering.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  Hilda thought it sulky and stupid, and he waited.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
8  He's sulky,' replied Sikes, giving him a shake; 'he's sulky.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  There was a sort of sulky defiance in her eyes, which only goes with guilty knowledge.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
10  Bentley Drummle, who was so sulky a fellow that he even took up a book as if its writer had done him an injury, did not take up an acquaintance in a more agreeable spirit.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
11  In a sulky triumph, Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree, until he became downright intolerable.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
12  For, I cannot adequately express what pain it gave me to think that Estella should show any favor to a contemptible, clumsy, sulky booby, so very far below the average.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
13  'I have kept your name and reputation for you, and your peace and quiet, and your house and home too,' said Uriah, with a sulky, hurried, defeated air of compromise.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
14  All the way across the floor, a man, newly come and standing in the doorway, saw them, started in recognition and watched closely the slanting eyes in the sulky, rebellious face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  But if this whale be a king, he is a very sulky looking fellow to grace a diadem.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
Example Sentence:
1  "Well, be off, then!" said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest.
2  Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, "I am older than you, and must know better".