Sometimes we could leave a plaintive message on voice mail, but few were returned.
Conversations with Russian officials often end with the plaintive question: "What have we done that you haven't done?"
He concluded his plaintive melody, a very simple performance, demanding no great skill; and she waited, thinking another might be begun.
Adieu! Adieu! Thy plaintive anthem fades.
Listening to the plaintive dirges sung out of friendship.
For the season grows heavy with its fulness, and there is a plaintive shepherd's pipe in the shade.
In the yellowish illumination of the street lamps, each bench is written with a different mood, sweet and joyful, plaintive and jubilant, embracing each other and gradually brewing in serenity.
The plaintive malure was replaced by the larifla.
There was no ill-fitting glove, no dream team, no slow-motion car chase, and no plaintive wail of a dog.
To utter or emit a long, mournful, plaintive sound.
Adieu! Adieu! Thy plaintive anthem fades, Past the near meadows, over the still stream.
The singers' plaintive squeals form the soundtrack of our lives.
I looked up into the sky. At the highest point I saw a round sun, so red and so deep, her rays of light soft and plaintive.
Lasses died, her spirit into a bird, flower head, BaiZui shell, red claws, send out "jingwei, jingwei" plaintive wail, and therefore, it also called the bird as "jingwei".
The song has plaintive melody.
One particular bark, which has a telltale plaintive squeak to it, features more and more frequently.
The plaintive song of the humpback whale can travel for great distances underwater.
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