Sentence example with the word 'plaintive'

plaintive

aggrieved, doleful, fretful, grievous, lamenting, mournful, pitiful, querulous, sorrowed, ululant, whining

Definition adj. expressing sorrow

Last update: June 20, 2015


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I heard his plaintive voice.   [Please select]

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It was obvious from the stray cat’s plaintive cries he was cold and miserable.   [Please select]

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During the funeral, I could only offer the widow my plaintive words.    [Please select]

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The plaintive malure was replaced by the larifla.   [Please select]

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It was a short, plaintive, minor strain.   [Please select]

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In this way, although the ancient ballads are not forgotten, new words are also fitted to the plaintive folk-tunes (fados) which every farm-hand knows and sings, accompanied sometimes by a rude clarinet or bagpipes, but more frequently by the so-called Portuguese guitar - an instrument which resembles a mandolin rather than the guitars of Italy and Spain.   [Please select]

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He accepted Overbrook's next plaintive invitation, for an evening two weeks off.   [Please select]

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If, in alarm, he uttered a plaintive cry, she bounded to him at once.   [Please select]

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From the tents came now loud angry cries and now plaintive groans.   [Please select]

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The plaintive moan of reproach was drowned by the threatening and angry roar of the crowd.   [Please select]

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There was a break, a yearning that was almost plaintive, in his voice.   [Please select]

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