The almost plaintive question caused a lump to lodge in Jaxom's throat.

Ranulf came in with a series of plaintive questions but Corbett dismissed him with a look.

It asks this plaintive question: How do we bring our lives closer to our favorite books?

The chorus, repeated five times, is the plaintive, rhetorical question: 'when will you die?'

Instead, the students countered with a plaintive question of their own: "What is socialism?"

Soon enough, as the evening news blared and the moon lifted above the European horizons again, that plaintive question sounded all about.

For all his strangeness, it was the plaintive question of a very normal boy.

The woman's plaintive question was just one note in the street symphony playing down Broadway yesterday.

With that plaintive question, Kirk saw she was a child in so many ways.

My patients and their plaintive questions echoed throughout the day: When would the treatment be available?