Plangently definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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You will comfort my whole body as you are comforting my hands She drooped, she seemed about to fall, but joy was a bright light on her face, and she answered loudly, plangently: "Then I shall not be afraid!"

—The Judge

Examples (4)

You will comfort my whole body as you are comforting my hands She drooped, she seemed about to fall, but joy was a bright light on her face, and she answered loudly, plangently: "Then I shall not be afraid!" — The Judge
For the bells did the work of arousing curiosity; they tolled plangently into the night. — South Wind
With the plangently useless iterations of a Greek chorus, the tale was flung at him, piecemeal and in chunks, and in a triple key. — Bruce
She drooped, she seemed about to fall, but joy was a bright light on her face, and she answered loudly, plangently: "Then I shall not be afraid!" — The Judge