Example Sentences

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When she learned that noon that her big brother would not be back till night, Dollie had pouted because he had gone off without telling her.

From The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

Beatrix, who had pouted sufficiently, her little brother being now gone to bed, was for taking her place on Esmond’s knee.

From The Literary World Seventh Reader by Metcalf, John Calvin

And in each case she had pouted, or scoffed, and had contrived somehow to circumvent him, to thwart him, and to get with well-cloaked, or with uncloaked, insistence her own way.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

“But I don’t want to be a butterfly,” Patty had pouted.

From Patty's Success by Wells, Carolyn

When she had heard that she had been placed next Donnington, Bubbles had pouted.

From From out the Vasty Deep by Lowndes, Marie Belloc