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    Use "funk" in a sentence

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    1. " Victoria enjoyed Glenelle's company and conversation, especially with Al still in his funk about his silly shuttlecraft mission instead of reveling in the excitement of discovery


    2. whatever funk it is that you’re in


    3. Alfred had gotten over his funk about failing to pick up Alan from the river raft after a few months, as soon as he also began to deny that Alan was dead


    4. “I’m sorry lads I will be alright in a moment I am just in such a blue funk right now


    5. We filled the hole in but as we did Bert and I were in a blue funk shaking and I could have sworn that I had filled my trousers as Bert stuttered


    6. In fact I don’t think my dad had ever missed an episode of “Soul Train” on TV – so he knew what wazup with this disco funk thing


    7. not brushed his teeth, nor seen a bath, and he knew that funk would become a


    8. The MC continued, “… It’s going to be a straight up funk fest, the funky festival is onnn! Rappers, housers, disco ducks, do it to it,” MC Shadows said in a slow, deep and crystal clear MC voice, as he pointed his finger at each and every person in the crowd


    9. The one thing that has always stood out about me is that I can Trick, Scratch, Mix and Funk the heck out of any set of turntable decks with a DJ ear that was developed in Chicago during the original wave of breakin’ and house music


    10. When informed by telephone of the dash of Hitler’s tanks in the early morning hours of June 22, 1941, Stalin went into a silent funk

    11. At lunch Charly abandoned her funk, letting co-workers blame the mood on her sore wrist


    12. If that’s the case after this we’re the underdog and we’re coming with machine gun funk, but that’s not going to happen


    13. He removes some raisins and dates from his small satchel and snacks on them, picks his teeth, and rinses his mouth with water to dispel the morning funk that grows in the night


    14. She needed to find some practical task to do to raise her out of this funk


    15. I was proud of myself for thinking of this and I desperately hoped that it would bring Jake out of his funk


    16. The funk! He smiled faintly and promised to take a shower in


    17. Michael played clarinet, alto sax and tenor sax: jazz, funk, fusion, rock and post-bop


    18. Jenna was alone and still in her funk


    19. Tina needs to get out of that funk, now


    20. TV show disco was to have one of London’s top Funk and soul DJ’s providing the

    21. “Sixty five years of hard graft in order to piss away the last few years in pointless pursuits and ill-fitting nylon clothing? There is surely greater meaning to be wrested from life than that!” Mark, distracted in his metaphysical funk, failed to notice an oncoming truck as we rode off and almost found the answer to his own question


    22. happiness, joy and blue skies, that is her reality – but, right now, I'm in a bit of a funk


    23. this monk has funk


    24. In Funk and Wagnalls Standard College


    25. Ashley said nothing; he was in funk because his


    26. Pop, funk, dance -- whatever you want to call it, it works


    27. “Help!” the man screamed, but Than knew his cries were futile, for Alecto had already immobilized the two others in the store with her acrid steam from the Lethe, putting them in a funk they would not recall


    28. 'He's all right, my old man is,' he says confidently when I probe him on the point; adding just now to this invariable reply, 'And look here, Miss Schmidt, Vicki's all right too, you see, so what's the funk about?' 'I don't know,' said I; and I didn't even after I had secretly looked in the dictionary, for it was empty of any explanation of the word funk


    29. He bade her, almost sternly, not be silly; and then, brushing birthday nonsense aside, told her he was so fond of her that he was in a mortal funk


    30. Who would have thought, she asked herself, that he could doubt her decency to the point of being in what he called a blue funk? He had positively perspired with fear lest she should fail him

    31. So he sat by the window with a glass of steely, flinty Chablis, its purity and cleanliness cutting through his funk


    32. “Yeah, I spent the day in a serious funk when I heard the news


    33. (12) FUNK AND WAGNALL ENCYCLOPEDIA: “The Christian doctrine of the immortal soul has been strongly influenced by pagans such as Plato and Aristotle


    34. "How funk it? Why are you hanging about?"


    35. "You shouldn't funk your own deeds, man," remonstrated the friend


    36. one of his cool drug committees but this was an opportunity to break out of the funk I had found


    37. And after aimlessly wandering the Glade to hear the other Runners’ stories, he snapped out of his funk


    38. Oddly, it helped break him out of his funk, snap him to attention


    39. Milly, no sign of funk


    40. She’d spent the next six weeks in a funk, trying to figure out why the other girl had been good enough to marry while he hadn’t even been able to discuss the subject with her

    41. And the way they talk: “One mustn’t expect figs from thistles!” “I’d pollinate her in a blink, you shit!” “Bear up and funk it, boys!” There are cadets who do everything right—perfect posture, expert marksmanship, boots polished so perfectly that they reflect clouds


    42. Which was auspicious; Regan’s fiancé, whom he’d met back in April, was coming down for tonight’s rehearsal dinner, and though William didn’t plan to seduce him, exactly (it was her own engagement that seemed to have pulled Regan out of the previous summer’s funk), William did think Keith Lamplighter was about the handsomest man he’d ever laid eyes on


    43. It’s all too easy to sour on the market or to scream at the computer or to descend into a quiet funk over a trade that didn’t work


    44. As reality caught up with Coca-Cola, the stock went into a decadelong funk


    45. And if that wasn’t enough to put any country in a funk, the French also had a controversial spy case to deal with


    46. “Sorry to shove you into a king-size funk, but I hate keeping time with your quarterhorse half-ass deductions


    47. Then his bright face fell away in a pale funk, and to cover his sense of failure he banged and crashed the parts of his machine about as if they really did make sense


    48. This shook Robert out of his funk and elicited yelps of frightened but ecstatic joy from Michael, who clung to Mom’s legs and watched the water pour by his nose in a wet torrent


    49. This shook Robert out of his funk and elicited yelps of frightened but esctatic joy from Michael, who clung to Mom’s legs and watched the water pour by his nose in a wet torrent


    50. They haven't any spirit in them--no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other--Lord! What is he but funk and precautions? They just used to skedaddle off to work--I've seen hundreds of 'em, bit of breakfast in hand, running wild and shining to catch their little season-ticket train, for fear they'd get dismissed if they didn't; working at businesses they were afraid to take the trouble to understand; skedaddling back for fear they wouldn't be in time for dinner; keeping indoors after dinner for fear of the back streets, and sleeping with the wives they married, not because they wanted them, but because they had a bit of money that would make for safety in their one little miserable skedaddle through the world







    1. As he funked on that, he got a call from Heymon


    2. Besides, hadn't she a secretary, if she funked it herself?


    3. “What! Aglaya would have funked? You are a chicken-hearted fellow, Gania!” said Varia, looking at her brother with contempt


    4. I should have jeered at myself ever afterwards: "So you funked it, you funked it, you funked the real thing!" On the contrary, I passionately longed to show all that "rabble" that I was by no means such a spiritless creature as I seemed to myself


    1. They all shouted: “Aha, he is funking, he is running away


    1. He knows I won't go away without killing him if he funks it himself—so that he would have to kill me first to prevent my killing him


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    Synonyms for "funk"

    funk casimir funk blue funk cringe flinch quail recoil shrink squinch wince gloom depression low spirits misery

    "funk" definitions

    a state of nervous depression


    United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)


    an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar


    draw back, as with fear or pain