plaintive wail

The party is disturbed by a plaintive wailing from outside.

He is also a baby, given to plaintive wails when upset.

Such a plaintive wail might be found in the personal columns of a black magazine.

This last question ended in a plaintive wail that cut me to the core.

That was why prosecutors had to base their case on a dog's "plaintive wail."

Before he could speak, they heard a pain-filled, plaintive wail from the east.

He was interrupted by the plaintive wail of a bagpipe.

There was only its plaintive wailing, growing ever louder.

The sound of pipes reached him, the plaintive wail matching his mood.

They heard a plaintive wail, but Squirrel chanted it down into the river.

She cried out across the waters in Martian, her voice a plaintive wail.

The music, such as it was, crescendoed, led by a long, plaintive wail from the singer.

The long plaintive wail rose outside the windows and Macho leapt to his feet.

A cat rubs its whole body on my ankle and lets out a plaintive wail.

Local Muslims believe that the first man received his soul when he heard the ancient horn's plaintive wail.

His plaintive wail brought silence to the room.

"It had significant pitch, a plaintive wail," he said.

It filled the chamber with a plaintive wail, a dirge that was all too appropriate.

The plaintive wailing grew in volume, closed in and swallowed her.

As he raced away, he heard a plaintive wail.

It was a plaintive wail from the cabin.

Was that a plaintive wail I just detected?

He took a couple of indeterminate strides then swung round and his voice rose in a plaintive wail.

Even in the bridge, Lucius could hear the reedy, plaintive wails of the infant.

And he sang along with the tape, a plaintive wail that he didn't care who heard.