What's the difference between coastal and sulk?

Coastal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a coast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
  • (2) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
  • (3) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
  • (4) Endless utilitarian apartment blocks and gigantic hotels sprawl seemingly at random in the so-called "coastal cluster".
  • (5) Mary and Gerry Menke from the small coastal community of Mallacoota in far eastern Victoria were among the 298 people who died when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was downed over insurgent-held eastern Ukraine on 17 July.
  • (6) He said a two-and-half-year analysis by the government's Foresight programme on the implications for coastal defences had more impact in the corridors of power than any other research on the effects of climate change that he presented.
  • (7) This lovely coastal route also gives you an excuse to hop on the Skye ferry, which plies its way over the narrows to Kylerhea from the start of this walk.
  • (8) If coastal ice shelves buttressing the west Antarctic ice sheet continue to disintegrate, the sheet could disgorge into the ocean, raising sea levels by several metres in a century.
  • (9) Nevertheless, Ansar al-Sharia and other Islamist militia have bases elsewhere in eastern Libya, notably around the coastal city of Derna, known across the region as a major recruitment centre for fighters who joined the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
  • (10) A spokesman for the Met Office said: "We have had such heavy and persistent rainfall over the last few days and weeks and that there is a danger of landslides and rockfall along the coast, even on coastal paths.
  • (11) Reports from the scenes of Muslim Brotherhood and Freedom and Justice Party rallies conveyed a dour mood in Cairo, while active clashes were reported in both coastal cities and upper Egypt.
  • (12) "Heat stress, extreme precipitation, inland and coastal flooding, as well as drought and water scarcity pose risks in urban areas, with risks amplified for those lacking essential infrastructure and services or living in exposed areas," says the report, which makes this forecast with "very high confidence".
  • (13) The following summer, the coastal city Qidong scrapped a pipeline plan after about a thousand protesters stormed government offices and overturned cars.
  • (14) Other stranded schemes include a £9m alleviation scheme for Exeter, Devon, and coastal defences at Folkestone, Kent (£22m) and Lyme Regis, Dorset (£15m).
  • (15) 2) with different dietary concentrations of Mg and K. In each experiment, eight 500-ml continuous culture fermentors were supplied with late-cut coastal bermuda grass (80%) and cellulose (20%) as substrate during five trials with two levels of Mg (.07 and .14%), K (.6 and 2.5%) and either monensin (Exp.
  • (16) The children had been identified in a cross-sectional survey of two coastal areas: Lake Munmorah (LM), within 5 km of two power stations, and Nelson Bay (NB), free from major industry.
  • (17) The caries prevalence was higher in the coastal cities in the south.
  • (18) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
  • (19) The need for simple, fast and inexpensive tests to study metal pollution in the marine environment has become more pressing as utilization of coastal waters increases.
  • (20) White-tailed deer harbored 19 species of parasites; all were typical of the parasite fauna of this species in coastal regions of the southeastern United States.

Sulk


Definition:

  • (n.) A furrow.
  • (v. i.) To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.
  • (2) But last week – last week … Last week there was a sudden burst of sunshine after weeks of sulking sky.
  • (3) "I say to those Tory MPs who share our views and our aspirations: 'Why don't you stop sulking in secret in the corridors of Westminster and come out of the closet?
  • (4) The marching boots were thrown to the back of the cupboard and you went into a major sulk.
  • (5) He has been accused by the Eurosceptic press of treachery, a vanishing act and a euro sulk.
  • (6) Her cat is in a sulk, she says, because he hasn't been getting enough attention because of all the fuss.
  • (7) There was no national outrage over Sulk’s murder, nor over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Laramie girl, Christin Lamb, that summer.
  • (8) He loves the club and the team and he is an incredible professional, so I don’t think you would ever expect him to sulk,” Martínez said.
  • (9) Certainly, better act to change your destiny than do what Edward Heath did after being beaten in the Conservative leadership election of 1975 until his death 30 years later: sulk.
  • (10) The novelist Lord (Michael) Dobbs was one of many Tories to lay into their coalition partner, accusing Clegg of "a great political sulk", after the Liberal Democrats withdrew support in retribution for the failure to complete a deal to reform the House of Lords last year.
  • (11) But stagnation remains the cloud loitering overhead, and, if the economy sulks its way through 2012 and living standards continue to fall, the polls may shift as voters' patience wears out.
  • (12) But then what is known in Whitehall as the "Lansley sulk" over his 18-month opposition to the policy of setting a minimum price for alcohol meant he was never going to stand up in parliament to defend it.
  • (13) Instead, the Australian electorate is watching aghast as Labor's two major political stars plot and sulk and tear each other apart in public – and fight to the death in a secret party ballot.
  • (14) People try masking this emotion or express it in specific ways nonverbally, such as sulking or not eating.
  • (15) Now there were three people sulking in the House, though Gove looked slightly more cheerful.
  • (16) No sulking or feeling sorry for themselves after such an unfortunate goal; just a quiet determination to get an equalizer.
  • (17) They're also close to wrapping up deals for Sevilla's Alvaro Negredo and Fiorentina's Stevan Jovetic and could battle Chelsea for the signing of PSG's Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who's in a sulk about the arrival of Edinson Cavani.
  • (18) When he came to see the computer tortoises in 1951 – they responded to light and scuttled back home when the bulb was switched on in their hutches – he also managed to break a game playing computer by recognising the work of a protege and cracking the algorithm on the spot: the computer flashed both "you've won" and "you've lost" messages at him, and then shut itself down in a sulk.
  • (19) Lots of Blairites left in a sulk because David Miliband wasn’t leader and it is generally the case that those that then joined are sympathetic to the leader,” said the source.
  • (20) The point is, I didn’t make the cut, and you know, you kind of think, fine, I understand Nick’s got to make tough choices, and there’s no point sulking.” So he decided to run for party president instead.