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Meanings of sullen in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "heavy"
Examples for "heavy"
1
China's new climate-related insurance services, however, often depend on heavy government subsidies.
2
Reporting remains subject to heavy legal constraint, thus key information remains obscured.
3
Twenty years of freedom have seen heavy investment is Soweto's public transport.
4
And Western Australia has particularly heavy penalties under its Public Health Act.
5
There is also new evidence that heavy precipitation has increased in Europe.
1
This is threatening Greece today, maybe other states in Europe as well.
2
However, overtreatment should be avoided and life-threatening infections pose a particular problem.
3
Cambodia's government has said it will act against anybody threatening national security.
4
Fibroids are not life threatening; however, they may cause some health problems.
5
Energy and water shortages have become widespread, threatening to fuel public discontent.
1
Officials discussed lowering that threshold at Thursday's meeting, a second source said.
2
This plan all about keeping him in power, not lowering power bills.
3
The sources said the planned measures would include sharply lowering this target.
4
Just lowering the interest rate is not going to really change liquidity.
5
The Commission has therefore not proposed lowering import duties of the product.
Usage of sullen in inglês
1
But the Nabals are sullen; they are grumblers; they are never done.
2
It was not a sullen shrug; it only said he didn't know.
3
Two sullen crimson discs glowed in the black arch of the tunnel.
4
The stillness out of doors bespoke a sullen break in the storm.
5
Engines snorted in sullen labor, charging to and fro, aimlessly it appeared.
6
She found the town in confusion, the civilians bewildered, the soldiers sullen.
7
She looked sullen, confused, and unhappy-notconspicuously different from her normal look.
8
They landed; but the fearful, and ungrateful slaves continued sullen and forbidding.
9
Once I got inside the house he treated me with sullen respect.
10
One evening they sat in sullen pride and anger by the fire.
11
Fauvette sank back on the divan and lay there in sullen defiance.
12
They are caught up in the sullen strife of their relentless life.
13
Jeff was heavy and sullen and dark and very serious in it.
14
I went in a sullen state, stunned and for the moment submissive.
15
For a long time La Barbée hesitated; then with a sullen air:
16
The rain was falling heavily and the skies were sullen and gray.
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Sullen through the time
Sullen across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common