plangent
Example Sentences
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Where are the movie stars and pop icons with their beautifully produced plangent video pleas for justice?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
Adjuah sings in a keening, plangent tone, but at one point he pauses to offer a spoken invitation: “Listen to the wind,” he says.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2023
The column in which this plangent cri de coeur appeared bears the subtle title “More Babies, Please.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023
He plays subtext beautifully in “Spiderhead,” with plangent notes of regret.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2022
One evening, camped at the edge of a deep wood, Tristran heard something he had never heard before: a beautiful melody, plangent and strange.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Vocabulary lists containing plangent
The Inquisitor's Tale
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Stardust
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