sulky
adjective
marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
sulkies
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pluralof sulky.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Often, Clarence and his neighbors got their workhorses together, attached them to sulkies and trotted them around to see which was fastest.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2011
Houghton Sulky Co. of Marion, Ohio, specializes in horse-show buggies and racing sulkies, do not make ordinary "top" buggies.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the starting line, farther than the eye could see, a hundred thousand people lined up, on saddle horses, light rigs, buck-boards, spring wagons, sulkies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twelve sulkies pulled by seven colts, two geldings and three fillies circled on Goshen's drying track in systematic confusion for the start of the first heat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Until turnpike days all small carriages were two-wheeled; chaises, chairs, and sulkies were those generally used.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
