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Meanings of sulky silence in English
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Usage of sulky silence in English
1
There was no answer to that, but a sort of sulky silence.
2
Stafford, badly beaten, relapsed into a sulky silence, while Hadley nodded approval.
3
My questions evidently offended her; they were received in sulky silence.
4
Piqued at this reticence, the maid, Jeannotte, maintained a sulky silence.
5
Mattison, seeing no meaning in this sally, preserved a sulky silence and Terry added:
6
Aquila made no answer, but rode on in sulky silence.
7
I had touched her to the quick, and she fell into a sulky silence.
8
Her veil was torn and her wreath crooked, and she observed a sulky silence.
9
He made no reply, but lapsed into a sulky silence.
10
Conventional overtures from the cheerful one being discouraged, she smashed the keys in sulky silence.
11
She went on with her breakfast in sulky silence.
12
All three are met with sulky silence, which speaks more than words would have done.
13
Ogden submitted to the embrace in sulky silence.
14
The sailor, under the weight of his failure and the unusual libations, relapsed into sulky silence.
15
He preserves a sulky silence, full of reservations.
16
There was another moment of glum, sulky silence, and then a perfect storm of angry outcries.
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