How to Use sulky in a Sentence

sulky

adjective

• She's in a sulky mood.
• She is very sulky today.
• By contrast, this latest bit of research hammers the gas, forcing it, like a sulky teenager, to tidy away its qubits.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2018
• While Liam sits in this big, ritzy AF mansion looking pensive and sulky with his shirt unbuttoned!
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 26 Jan. 2018
• And how annoyingly aggrieved and, well, small the birthday boy appears in his sulky silence.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• So perturbed is Costa, in fact, that the sulky Spain international starts launching footballs into a goal 40 yards away in protest.
  — SI.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• What comes through now is the vehemence and sulky confusion of a generation’s anti-American snit.
  — Armond White, National Review, 2 June 2021
• The dramatics only heightened from there, as the singer's sharp movements and mostly neutral expression played into her sulky aesthetic.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 6 Aug. 2017
• Slater also oversaw a marketing campaign that presented his new artist as a sulky siren, transforming her into a global star and a media target.
  — Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• With these spoiler-sensitive twists the book seems to change from a sulky character study to a wicked satire of artistic arrogance and the accidental nature of immortality.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• Characters included a pirate, a murderer and a sulky baby, but one of the funniest hitchhiker sketches was the simplest.
  — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• There are invariably some boldface names in the throng, a few adorably sulky teenage hipsters, a clutch of serious New York theater impresarios, and a number of confused millennials.
  — Sally Singer, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2019
• The newest installment of the animated comedy series with old-school monster favorites sends sulky hotelier Dracula (voiced by Sandler), his friends and their families on a crazy creature cruise to the lost city of Atlantis.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
• Since confirming his breakup with Gigi on Twitter, Zayn has followed up his mysterious post with a second selfie that's similarly sulky.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 13 Mar. 2018
• She's in a sulky mood.
• She is very sulky today.
• By contrast, this latest bit of research hammers the gas, forcing it, like a sulky teenager, to tidy away its qubits.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2018
• While Liam sits in this big, ritzy AF mansion looking pensive and sulky with his shirt unbuttoned!
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 26 Jan. 2018
• And how annoyingly aggrieved and, well, small the birthday boy appears in his sulky silence.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• So perturbed is Costa, in fact, that the sulky Spain international starts launching footballs into a goal 40 yards away in protest.
  — SI.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• What comes through now is the vehemence and sulky confusion of a generation’s anti-American snit.
  — Armond White, National Review, 2 June 2021
• The dramatics only heightened from there, as the singer's sharp movements and mostly neutral expression played into her sulky aesthetic.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 6 Aug. 2017
• Slater also oversaw a marketing campaign that presented his new artist as a sulky siren, transforming her into a global star and a media target.
  — Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• With these spoiler-sensitive twists the book seems to change from a sulky character study to a wicked satire of artistic arrogance and the accidental nature of immortality.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• Characters included a pirate, a murderer and a sulky baby, but one of the funniest hitchhiker sketches was the simplest.
  — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• There are invariably some boldface names in the throng, a few adorably sulky teenage hipsters, a clutch of serious New York theater impresarios, and a number of confused millennials.
  — Sally Singer, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2019
• The newest installment of the animated comedy series with old-school monster favorites sends sulky hotelier Dracula (voiced by Sandler), his friends and their families on a crazy creature cruise to the lost city of Atlantis.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
• Since confirming his breakup with Gigi on Twitter, Zayn has followed up his mysterious post with a second selfie that's similarly sulky.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 13 Mar. 2018

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