What's the difference between fare and sulk?

Fare


Definition:

  • (n.) To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
  • (n.) To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
  • (n.) To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
  • (n.) To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
  • (n.) To behave; to conduct one's self.
  • (v.) A journey; a passage.
  • (v.) The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
  • (v.) Ado; bustle; business.
  • (v.) Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
  • (v.) Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
  • (v.) The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
  • (v.) The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
  • (2) The female survival figures were better than the male, and older patients fared far worse then younger ones.
  • (3) One problem is that it seems fares are going up several times a year.
  • (4) Yet it appears that younger patients fared better than older ones.
  • (5) Mary Creagh, the shadow transport secretary, said: "Over the last three years David Cameron has failed to stand up for working people, allowing train companies to hit passengers with inflation-busting fare rises of up to 9%.
  • (6) We’re meant to get into a choreographed huff about train fares.
  • (7) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
  • (8) But many customers have been impressed by the speed of the technology and cheapness of the fares, and the company’s valuation continues to rise.
  • (9) Those patients who were treated seemed to fare better than those not treated.
  • (10) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
  • (11) Anthony Smith, Passenger Focus chief executive, said: "These fare increases were being sought by a company that was in a very different financial position.
  • (12) This week, East Midlands Trains more than doubled the cost of some peak-time trains to London, arguing those fares were too cheap.
  • (13) A survey of radiologic technologists in North Carolina shows that, in general, technologists fare better economically when working in hospitals than in radiologists' offices.
  • (14) The patients on active drug fared no better than those on placebo.
  • (15) Buy carnet tickets Carnets were introduced by First Capital Connect to offer slightly lower fares to those who travel into London two or three times a week, but not enough to make it cost-effective to buy a season ticket.
  • (16) For those making an early getaway, air fares were up by 7% and boat journeys went up 5.2%.
  • (17) Val Shawcross, Labour's transport spokeswoman on the London assembly, said the anticipated loss of revenue almost matched the £60m the mayor, who chairs Transport for London, had raised by increasing bus fares in the capital.
  • (18) In Spain the government is taking the drastic step of cutting speed limits on motorways and cutting train fares , as the unrest in Libya threatens the country's oil supplies.
  • (19) Gene frequencies were compared with previous data and all European populations studied so fare agreed with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
  • (20) He says he missed the appointment because he did not have enough money for the bus fare.

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.