Sentences with phrase «plaintive wail»

Just when everyone at the table has tried to change the subject without success, the collective noise of the kids in the other room abruptly goes silent and is replaces with the solitary, plaintive wail of an injured child.

Each painting embodies the synergy of couples as they slide, glide, slither and swing to the plaintive wail of a sax calling to an unruly roll of drums.

I hear this plaintive wail over and over again.

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If officials of the big corporations that make infant formula resembled their consumers, the sound of plaintive cries and choked wails might at this very instant be replacing happy coos and gurgles in the executive suite.

In go my quarters and out comes that familiar wail, the plaintive declaration of youthful rebellion from The Offspring, «All I Want.»