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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sulk .
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Examples
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But he did brood-she was tempted to think "sulked" but did not give in to the temptation-right up until the moment they made camp.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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But he did brood-she was tempted to think "sulked" but did not give in to the temptation-right up until the moment they made camp.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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The series was brought hastily to a conclusion in November: and the author, beaten back as he had never been beaten before, dropped the subject, and "sulked," so he called it, all the winter.
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But she simply "sulked;" she never grumbled or was pert; and she did her work just as usual -- with a kind of dogged struggle not only against the superior powers but against something within herself much harder to fight with.
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So I kind of sulked for a while and didn’t write anything tonight.
Not Non-Partisan Enough Perhaps « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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So I kind of sulked for a while and didn’t write anything tonight.
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*] The nieces, of whom Balzac was really extremely fond, "sulked" no longer, but wrote letters which their uncle praised highly, and which he answered gaily and amusingly.
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He had moped around and sulked and was always apologizing for every little thing, like some sort of pariah who's very presence offended people.
The Company Man Stephen Carter 2011
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Sat by himself and sulked as the Jets tried to rally.
A Quiz on the Jets' Collapse Jason Gay 2012
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But Baron Courbertin was inconsolable, and sulked for a full half-hour.
CHAPTER 23 2010
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