Examples of 'plaintive' in a sentence
Meaning of "plaintive"
plaintive (adjective) - expressing suffering or sadness, often with a mournful tone or manner. It is commonly used to describe a sound or voice that evokes pity or sorrow
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- Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
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The plaintive melody broke her heart.
Him with your beautifully plaintive words.
The plaintive malure was replaced by the larifla.
The orchestra played some plaintive waltzes.
In plaintive notes he prophesies his own discovery.
The tone is not strident but plaintive.
And in plaintive tones said she.
We were drawn back by your plaintive wail.
Her plaintive voice was close to good.
The party is disturbed by a plaintive wailing from outside.
Plaintive and suspect are on scene.
Percussion booming plaintive chanting continues.
Plaintive trumpet playing continuing the verdict is guilty.
Every moment somewhere plaintive lips sigh a complaint.
Plaintive piano plays in the background.
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Turn to you with a plaintive expression.
An old plaintive melody sounds softly in the background.
The performance remains plaintive and even touching.
Thy plaintive anthem fades.
The male has several plaintive whistling calls.
Just hold her hand and look plaintive.
And the plaintive wail from the distance.
How saintly is their plaintive plea.
Only a plaintive wind will blow.
He taught me how to stutter and say in a plaintive voice.
It also has a plaintive alarm call.
He told me how to stutter and say in a plaintive voice.
The music has a plaintive hunger to it.
A plaintive lament sung by a mechanical man who longs to be human.
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow.
Plaintive piano notes play.
No one hears his plaintive cries for help.
His plaintive whine is the precursor of danger in the narrative.
At sunset it emits a sad plaintive note.
Then we heard a plaintive groan coming from the sled.
Just listen to how haunting and plaintive they sound.
A plaintive howl filled the previously happy living room.
It was little more than a plaintive whisper.
The plaintive cry of every man that drinks to disgusting excess.
You are like a plaintive melody.
She remained in his memory simply as the most plaintive.
The orchestra played some plaintive waltzes plaintive waltzes.
Tom could not keep from sounding a little plaintive.
Woman singing plaintive melody.
Who hears the sound of a woman singing sad and plaintive.
I understand your plaintive sympathise.
The plaintive call of the rejected male echoes across the mountains.
It was the plaintive cry.
The plaintive entreaties of the chick stimulates the adult to regurgitate a mouthful of fish.
There were no soaring strings or plaintive piano to trigger an emotional response.
