plaint
Example Sentences
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Mr. Cole, who seems proud that his Banana Ball has a family tree, echoes a common plaint among non-baseball fans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026
Produced by Pheelz, a Nigerian songwriter who adds a rap verse, “Ruin” deploys the shakers, deep log drums, soothing keyboard chords and open spaces of amapiano as Usher mixes accusation, plaint and humblebrag.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024
Instead of breaking something open, and for all its self-conscious daring, “Beau Is Afraid” stays in a relatively safe lane as one more Portnoy-esque plaint about Mom’s inhumanity to man.
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023
In the silence that follows that line, you can almost hear the eternal maternal follow-up plaint: “But what has he done for me?”
From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2021
Never before had humanity so badly needed its music to share the burden of anxiety, and composers everywhere answered this plaint.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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