plaintive in a sentence

1. a plaintive cry

2. the plaintive bleating of sheep

3. He plays a gorgeous trumpet solo against her plaintive cry.

4. And that is the only plaintive 'identity' permitted to them.

5. Suddenly, I heard the plaintive cry of a young Mexican girl:

6. The plaintive songs on this album beg for that, for all of us."

7. The two biggest tracks for me are still “Plaintive” and “NGC5128”.

8. The song was a plaintive apology to his wife Alice for his misdeeds.

9. Indeed, one plaintively asked, “Why else would I have sex with a man?”

10. An “American ballad” (No. 14) precedes its plaintive antithesis (No. 16).

11. In 5, we intuit a plaintive quality, like the vulnerability of the lover.

12. "You might give your old mother a drink of water," the ghost said plaintively.

13. Instead, he accepted the plaintive excuses that they had been repeating for years.

14. Whether or not the gods heard their plaintive calls, something in the storm listened.

15. At noon we heard a plaintive howl of a dog, then Okinamaro slowly returned from exile.

16. Finally a plaintive Daniela and Luigi always friendly, ready for a word and very kind.

17. His name, or rather a plaintive voice which essayed to pronounce his name, reached him.

18. As Flannery O’Connor asked so plaintively, how, then, do we actually learn how to pray?

19. He spoke with the woman who seemed to be his mother several times, often taking a plaintive tone.

20. His eyes were closed, and he was singing something plaintive, something about someone named Jude.