plangent

IPA: pɫˈændʒʌnt

adjective

  • Having a loud, mournful sound.
  • (rare) Beating, dashing, as waves.
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Examples of "plangent" in Sentences

  • The music in the club is plangent.
  • I could hear loud and plangent sound.
  • Incest is such a plangent taboo, we are often reluctant to speak of it even today.
  • It evoked the family's tribulations with chromatic density and plangent solo lines.
  • The plangent notes ring in the air, the lights go out, and all that's left is their ringing.
  • The CX 5 Urban also features a Racing Beat dual exhaust that's sure to emit a plangent tone.
  • Richly layered with looped percussion, plangent cello, and vintage keyboards, the arrangements are pristine but warm.
  • Leslie Reed performed her ornate oboe solos and intricate melodies with an attractive, plangent tone and smooth cantilena.
  • The hook line, sung in typical plangent style by Michael is quot;Hermless, hermless there's never nae bather frae me quot;.
  • Lyrical, plangent and at times fiercely dissonant, this ingeniously crafted score characterizes the depths of Prospero's misery.

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