Example sentences for: sullen

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

  • There are also President Clinton's suspiciously sullen, give-no-more-details-than-necessary denials; apparently the president's finger-wagging days are over.

  • 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.

  • I grew sullen and ashamed of my surroundings.

  • Renee Faia does a Cher impersonation as good as any drag queen's, but her sullen pouting and his whining make it seem like a long SCTV skit featuring Andrea Martin.

  • 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


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