How To Use Sullenly In A Sentence
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I follow sullenly, muttering something barely coherent, concerning lies and unfairness.
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But if it shall be otherwise -- if they stubbornly, sullenly persist in cherishing and manifesting the spirit of treason, making their motto to read, Bound, but not broken, then let the severities of immutable justice be meted out to them: let them die the death.
A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
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Sullenly, Andrea settled down into her seat and grumbled something incoherent.
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I sat there sullenly staring at the roast mutton and potatoes.
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Sullenly Harry stood up to allow some one to push past into the aisle.
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His crew sullenly tailed on to the halyards, and the strange, outlandish sail, lateen in rig and dyed a warm brown, rose in the air.
YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF
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He listened sullenly, with averted gaze.
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Her fingers went back to the frilling, and she turned her head sullenly away from me.
The Moonstone
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Tom never disobeyed his father, for Mr. Tulliver was a peremptory man, and, as he said, would never let anybody get hold of his whip hand; but he went out rather sullenly, carrying his piece of plumcake, and not intending to reprieve Maggie's punishment, which was no more than she deserved.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
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Night had fallen sullenly over the storm ravaged waters of the Gulf of Mexico, with heavy drops of rain spitting down from the wet, grey, overcast sky.
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Aber Cuawg, singing 'clamorously' to the sick man: 'there are that hear them that will not hear them again!' the sound of the large wave grating sullenly on the pebbles, --
Figures of Several Centuries
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He turned to gaze with cool appraisal at his secretary, sitting sullenly all this time.
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Old Jack had declined to take his darts and sat sullenly in his wheelchair.
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She turned her back to him and stared sullenly out of the window.
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The Indian savages," said Margrave, sullenly, "have not a health as perfect as mine, and in what you call vitality -- the blissful consciousness of life -- they are as sticks and stones compared to me.
A Strange Story — Volume 02
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Some adults gave thumbs-up signs, others watched sullenly as the 60 vehicles, bristling with weapons, crawled past.
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Honestly, this movie doesn't even really have jokes: it sets up comic situations every now and then, pads them out endlessly looking for something funny, then, not finding a joke lurking anywhere, the film sullenly moves on.
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You only got me that last," Tudor grunted sullenly, "lying in ambush like --
Chapter 27
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These were a mother and a _backfisch_, and they looked shyly and sullenly at Mrs. Hilary and the other English-woman in the compartment.
Dangerous Ages
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Tom never disobeyed his father, for Mr. Tulliver was a peremptory man, and, as he said, would never let anybody get hold of his whip-hand; but he went out rather sullenly, carrying his piece of plumcake, and not intending to reprieve Maggies punishment, which was no more than she deserved.
V. Tom Comes Home. Book I—Boy and Girl
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And Billy dances off again in newer glee, while the inspired musician is plunking a banjo imitation on his enchanted instrument, which is unceremoniously drowned out by a circus-tune from Doc that is absolutely inspiring to every one but the barefooted brother, who drops back listlessly to his old position on the floor and sullenly renews operations on his "chigger" claims.
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10
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In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear ... and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too.
THE NUMBERS
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As they turned towards the house, John rose, sullenly, and wrapping a handkerchief round his wounded arm, which was bleeding profusely, he glanced scowlingly at his brother.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
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They resented this ostent of entry; the men more sullenly than the women, some of whom in their hearts could not help admiring its high-and-mighty insolence.
Lady Good-for-Nothing
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A grim meaning rose in the vacuous eye of Lovel; Isaacs caressed his diamond pin, smiling in a sickly fashion; McNamara's wandering stare fixed and grew unhumanly bright; Ufert openly dropped his hand on his gun-butt and stood sullenly defiant.
Trailin'!
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We lost all the spare diapson crystals through the tear in the hull," he announced sullenly.
Morgawr
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Secundus cursed and swore, and stamped his feet on the ground in fury; but seeing that it was useless, and might be dangerous, to persevere, he sullenly gave the order to return to the martyry.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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She sat sullenly the last three blocks, tension mounting within her.
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She sniffed sullenly, as if trying to emphasize her disdain, but only sounded rather pathetic.
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The boy snapped his mouth shut and nodded sullenly.
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She is a ghastly, lumpish, sullenly withdrawn girl who leaves great quantities of unflushed paper in the toilet and feeds exclusively on rocklike muffins she constantly bakes from a packaged mix.
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The mountaineer regarded his questioner sullenly, scowlingly, and without much change of expression.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers
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The two Indians fell sullenly to the task of gathering dead branches and underwood.
The Wisdom of the Trail
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In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear … and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too.
Flashman and the angel of the lord
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Retiring sullenly under a heavy fire, while the general line was reformed to my right and rear, my division was at length drawn through the cedars and debouched into an open space near the Murfreesboro 'pike, behind the right of Palmer's division.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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Customs-house officers eyed them with tired suspicion; porters took their money and hastened away with the curtest of acknowledgments; an engine panted sullenly as it waited for never-ending mail-bags to be hauled up from the bowels of the packets and dumped into the mail-van.
Swirling Waters
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Dog-eared, loose-leafed copies have been sullenly passed from tormented teen to tormented teen on campuses and in libraries across the globe.
The Spark of Yahoo!
