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Example sentences for: plaintive

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The plaintive question echoes in the moist, warm air of the jungle.
A little while back, the Shopping Avenger received a plaintive e-mail from B., who reported that he was the only passenger on his flight not to receive free drink coupons.
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.
Having read Larry's valedictory, I am impressed more with his plaintive, rhetorical ploys than his substantive argument.
Conjectured ancestors include the Lowland Scottish peu to `make a plaintive noise' and the Danish piave `to whimper, whine or cry like a child.