Sentence examples for plaintive whine from inspiring English sources
"How much do you give me?" Suddenly, wafting through the market came a plaintive whine, like whale song.
Jarvis gives a fitting poetic depth to Golding's writing, while his character voices, such as Piggy's plaintive whine, bring the boys remarkably to life.
The other singers accompany her not with their voices but with the plaintive whine of shruti boxes—Indian drone instruments that look like military briefcases and sound like harmoniums or accordions.
This caused a plaintive whine from the Russian nuclear regulator, Rostechnadzor, but because of a hole in Russian nuclear law, inspectors still don't have full access or a mandate to criticise the Lomonosov.
Because they don't want it to get through; because, despite their endless plaintive whining about the political polarization they themselves have honed to a fine art over the last thirty years, it doesn't profit them one bit to be bipartisan - a point Obama made several times to the GOP's face.
He whines more now, plaintive, inscrutable mewls.
The vocals are plaintive to the point of whining, but the inner voices have a cool, contrapuntal flow, creating the sort of muscular melancholy so characteristic of postwar rhythm and blues.
You wonder why either of them would want to spend time (especially a festive occasion) with the other, and much of their fierce dismay at the world comes across as whining, backed by a plaintive soundtrack; yet there is something oddly touching, in the end, about these lost kids who play at grownup life.
They whine because whining works.
