Stayed home in a sulk. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Not with a ten-word sulk about how aweful it is you have to take a few minutes from your life to write a few paragraphs. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
You have to get over the 'sulk' and get back onto something. From Wordnik.com. [There Goes Retirement] Reference
They kind of sulk during hot summers then perk up to show off in early spring. From Wordnik.com. [Blooms? In January? « Fairegarden] Reference
According to the BBC's gardening wizards it will "sulk" if it is planted in heavy clay or shale. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I know him; he will sit there and sulk until we land. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
I did a fine sulk over carrying messages, if I do say so. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
And I didn't go off, you know, leave the Congress, and sulk. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2006] Reference
Eet came out of his sulk — or perhaps it was a deep study. From Wordnik.com. [Uncharted Stars]
He didn't sulk, pine, or plague us with grief-stricken sighs. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Grimes's "The Leash": Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature] Reference
When Churchill vetoed this proposal, Fisher went into a sulk. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
She did not sulk; she had lost hope, she was temporarily beaten. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Frank must have gone off to sleep, or at least gone off to sulk. From Wordnik.com. [The Hotel New Hampshire]
Failing, he sprang down and went to a far corner, in a fine sulk. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference
And please don't sulk -- only well-loved people can afford to do that. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
The great commandment to the worker or thinker is, -- Thou shalt not sulk. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
Suffice to say unless he has an achilles-style sulk, he will be in Brisbane. From Wordnik.com. [High praise for Stuart Broad's finest hour does not overstep the mark] Reference
"I don't sulk weally, Auntie, I jus '-- jus' don 'seem to know how to play!". From Wordnik.com. [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference
Then Felicity realized that it would not be good policy to make Dunham sulk. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
I prepared to sulk a little, assuming that the subject would now be dropped. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
Like Nero, Apollo was known to sulk and turn nasty if he was not allowed to win. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
I was determined to sulk, and should have been glad to have something to sulk at. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference
Casanova's crushed and swans off to lie down on the couch and have a big old sulk. From Wordnik.com. [Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 5, "There is an 'I' in Team"] Reference
They sulk and pout, worse than humans, if one act wins more applause than another. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
"Man, I was really hoping for the dancing girls," said Do-Wop, pretending to sulk. From Wordnik.com. [Phule me twice]
I hope I did not do anything so boyish as to sulk there, but of that I am not sure. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
The hint of a sulk around her bodyguard's mouth only made his face more compelling. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
"No, but I will not encourage your whims; you chose to sulk, it was no fault of mine.". From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
So he had gone off into the woods to sulk, had fallen asleep, and now was dreaming this. From Wordnik.com. [Lunatics]
Now everything has been compounded by the insult he endured, resulting in one endless sulk. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Red Sox and Blue Staters] Reference
They were good children, and did not try to tag along or sulk because they were left behind. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories] Reference
You let Lizzy stay, if she wants to; 'twon't hurt her; when folks want to sulk, I generally let. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
It was so easy to be goodnatured that she couldn't understand anybody taking the trouble to sulk. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis A Twin] Reference
He did not grumble or sulk, but resolved that as he had to do the work he would do it thoroughly. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
Off the coast of southern New Jersey and Delaware it began to sulk and circle like an eddy in a river. From Wordnik.com. [Like A Hurricane] Reference
"Hi," she barely managed to sputter out, tears welling up in her eyes before she sprinted back to her room to sulk. From Wordnik.com. [When the Bonfire's Over] Reference
"It was like handing your baby on to someone else," she says, "but I've been in politics too long to sulk about it.". From Wordnik.com. [Making a splash: newly restored Kentish Town baths reopen] Reference
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