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Example sentences for: plaintive

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A "plaintive" "Cassandra"?
The plaintive question echoes in the moist, warm air of the jungle.
Time has fresh shots of an anguished Ethel and a plaintive Rory Kennedy.
("No Help For Dying," is the NYT plaintive subhed.
Apart from the music played in the big cities and the sophisticated music of the Brahmanic tradition, you can listen to the folk music of Rajasthan, rousing or plaintive, in the desert around Jaisalmer.