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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