Example sentences for: sullen

How can you use “sullen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Now there are hip athletes--snowboarders, sullen teen skateboarders, Rollerbladers, dirt bikers--fighting for public space across barriers of age, class, and hairstyle.

  • pudjicky sullen, grouchy

  • She tromps around dull-eyed in a gray skirt and thick, mustard-colored stockings--a sullen bottom-feeder.

  • the dogs more sullen the farther up you went, and Russian and Roman churches below, the sunlight on the river, the bridge empty, the outer one half-hidden, I was shocked by the sudden distance

  • News Quiz responses typically offer a reliable guide to what America is thinking (if only by providing sullen and resentful counterexamples), but from time to time participants make small errors of--well, fact would be too vulgar a word; let's say emphasis.


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