He had the nerve to turn surly on me.

They had also been turned away, and were liable to turn surly at the slightest provocation.

The weather turned hot and oppressive and surly, as if dog days had come early this year.

He had turned a little surly by the time the Mets took the field for batting practice.

You don't want to ruin a beautiful evening by turning surly at the end, do you?

Of course, she'd never seen him out of company-out on the road, he might turn surly, hard to get along with.

If I asked too many questions, people turned surly or hurried away from us.

The way things were going for a while yesterday, who would have blamed Williams for turning surly?

She argued him onto the bridge for one reason and turned surly when he put himself there.

The phone went down and he turned surly again as he pointed to the elevator.