plaintive in English
Use "plaintive" in a sentence
1. Her voice was a little plaintive.
2. "What about me?" came a plaintive voice.
3. Uttering each the plaintive cry:
4. Her voice was small and plaintive.
5. A long plaintive wail emanated from the cardboard box.
6. When your child makes this plaintive cry, you may immediately check his temperature.
7. There he left them, knowing that they were safe, despite their plaintive cries.
8. It describes the sorrow and plaintive emotion of the ancient lady - in - waiting.
9. Uncle Peter's voice came as from a far distance , plaintive, placating.
10. I opened it and the plaintive song played automatically, surprising me.
11. Somewhere in the audience an old woman's voice began plaintive wail.
12. The plaintive droning of a cicada in cold weather sounds melancholy.
13. Seam combine melancholy, rage and pure plaintive yearning to devastating effect.
14. The melody is plaintive, not energetic like the hymns in church.
15. Suddenly a camel let out a plaintive ay, not far away.
16. They lay on the firm sands, listening to the plaintive cry of the seagulls.
17. For the season grows and there is a plaintive shepherd's pipe in the shade.
18. He accepted Overbrook's next plaintive invitation, for an evening two weeks off.
19. There was a plaintive cry from a crushed passenger in the rear of the bus.
20. A little plaintive Cooing, a scarcely distinct echo, replied from the depths of the cave.
21. I can today take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe - smitten people!
22. Even our most difficult challenges will add rich plaintive tones and moving motifs.
23. I fell in love with the subtly plaintive timbre of the Qiang flute.
24. She began to step backward toward the door, when something about her plaintive face attracted him.
25. Their plaintive calls shatter the evening quiet until the birds begin to search for food.
26. The editorials in the Straits Times were plaintive: How could the voters be so ungrateful?
27. Possibly picking up the scent of her young, she let out a high - pitched, plaintive whine.
28. Ranulf came in with a series of plaintive questions but Corbett dismissed him with a look.
29. This plaintive query echoes the dilemma faced by millions of families in most countries of the world.
30. For the season grows heavy with its fulness, and there is a plaintive shepherd's pipe in the shade.
31. The great philanthropist, in other words, is financed by mere mortals who stupidly bear their taxes without so much as a plaintive Bleat
32. For one thing, the “Peanuts” version is more of a plaintive wail while Aarrgh! is more guttural – combining anguish and anger.
33. Apologeticness (uncountable) The quality of being apologetic. 1930, William Babington Maxwell, To what green altar? The landlady asked with plaintive Apologeticness if they could make a …
34. Legend has it that the bridge got its name from the plaintive cries of the prisoners as they were escorted across it.
35. In those once bustling thoroughfares, there would be heard only a voice singing eerily in the window, perhaps the plaintive song of a bird or the howl of the wind.
36. She had a plaintive way of saying, "When Papa was rich we did so-and-so, " which was very touching, and her long words were considered 'perfectly elegant' by the girls.
37. Burr is a tom.1 1 History 1.1 In the Warriors Adventure Games 1.1.1 The Plaintive Howls 2 Appearances 3 Notes and references Burr travels around when he notices the smell of food
38. Examples from Classical Literature Then Ma, seizing a sword, began to attitudinize, smearing his face all over with coal-dust. Ma then got up and began to Attitudinize, singing a plaintive air like the girls with the turbans
39. 1611, The Bible, 1 Samuel 15:14: And Samuel said, What meaneth then this Bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? Inane or plaintive chatter
40. 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 9, Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the Bellying sail?
41. Witty, comic, plaintive, touching, acerbic, droll, cavalier, caffeinated, irreverent, stringent: 81 Austerities, the debut from Sam Riviere, seems to achieve the impossible in being all things at once.Initially conceived as a response to the 'austerity measures' implemented by the coalition government in 2011, the poems quickly began taking on a life in kind: 'cutting' th