Use of plaintive in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include plaintive at the start of sentence, plaintive at the end of sentence and plaintive in the middle of sentence

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plaintive at the end of sentence


  1. Her voice was a little plaintive.
  2. Her voice was small and plaintive.

plaintive in the middle of sentence


  1. "What about me?" came a plaintive voice.
  2. A long plaintive wail emanated from the cardboard box.
  3. Suddenly a camel let out a plaintive ay, not far away.
  4. The melody is plaintive, not energetic like the hymns in church.
  5. I fell in love with the subtly plaintive timbre of the Qiang flute.
  6. Somewhere in the audience an old woman's voice began plaintive wail.
  7. The plaintive droning of a cicada in cold weather sounds melancholy.
  8. I opened it and the plaintive song played automatically, surprising me.
  9. Mother Gaia sings a plaintive tune as her wails belie her birthing pains.
  10. There was a plaintive cry from a crushed passenger in the rear of the bus.
  11. They lay on the firm sands, listening to the plaintive cry of the seagulls.
  12. For the season grows and there is a plaintive shepherd's pipe in the shade.
  13. I can today take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe - smitten people!
  14. There he left them, knowing that they were safe, despite their plaintive cries.
  15. He accepted Overbrook's next plaintive invitation, for an evening two weeks off.
  16. Seam combine melancholy, rage and pure plaintive yearning to devastating effect.
  17. It describes the sorrow and plaintive emotion of the ancient lady - in - waiting.
  18. Nehru himself sent the President a long and plaintive letter at the end of the month.
  19. The editorials in the Straits Times were plaintive: How could the voters be so ungrateful?
  20. Ranulf came in with a series of plaintive questions but Corbett dismissed him with a look.
  21. Possibly picking up the scent of her young, she let out a high - pitched, plaintive whine.
  22. She began to step backward toward the door, when something about her plaintive face attracted him.
  23. For the season grows heavy with its fulness, and there is a plaintive shepherd's pipe in the shade.
  24. For the season grows heavy with its fullness, and there is a plaintive shepherd's pipe in the shade.
  25. Legend has it that the bridge got its name from the plaintive cries of the prisoners as they were escorted across it.
  26. Onstage she's ever forthright: raunchy or plaintive, insolent or exalted, underlining her tone with well-timed gestures.
  27. 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.

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