(1) "I've broken my glasses, " he said plaintively.

(2) 'What about me?' she asked plaintively.

(3) "Why don't we do something?" Davis asked plaintively.

(4) The last note of the song rang out plaintively.

(5) The crickets chirred plaintively at the foot of the wall.

(6) She played and sang so plaintively that I almost wept, the song was so sad.

(7) The chorus sang plaintively of their long hours in the shop, and short nights in the attics above.

(8) She glanced plaintively about the station.

(9) As one friend said plaintively, " Parents need special time, too. "

(10) Birds cry plaintively before they die, men speak kindly in the presence of death.

(11) It's times like these that I plaintively cry for my phantom butler.

(12) He telephoned Yorkshire Television to seek explanations and advice, demanding plaintively in a guttural accent.

(13) The scrawny kitten lingered, brushing itself against our legs, and meowing plaintively.

(14) The sledge slid along in the midst of a plaintively intense melody.

(15) " I want to go to bed, " Ahyuan said plaintively.

(16) The breeze sank to stillness. In the ravine a ringdove mourned plaintively, and somewhere off in the bushes an owl hooted.