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Examples

  • Plaintively, he repeated, "Wheredo we go from here?"

    Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

  • Plaintively he inquired, "Can return to ship now maybe?"

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • Plaintively he inquired, "Can return to ship now maybe?"

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • Plaintively, you call to your wife, but she doesn't hear you, which is not just discouraging but inexplicable.

    I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999

  • Plaintively, eerily, the cry spread through the Central Pass, until even'the returning birds began to sing in response'thrush and jay in full cry from the ravaged, wind-blasted trees.

    The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

  • Plaintively, Fayed asserted that ‘My only crime is that I am the father of the man who Diana fell in love with and who made her happier than she had ever been.’

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • Plaintively, Fayed asserted that ‘My only crime is that I am the father of the man who Diana fell in love with and who made her happier than she had ever been.’

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • Plaintively she called the name of the only lover she had ever had.

    Sweet Anger Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1985

  • Plaintively was one of the new words I had to use.

    If There Be Thorns V.C Andrews 1981

  • Plaintively was one of the new words I had to use.

    If There Be Thorns V.C Andrews 1981

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