plangent
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Plangent blue dominates against the backdrop of black-and-white text.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2022
The lines he proclaims undoubtedly authentic: "Plangent as doom, my dear boy—look."
From Time Magazine Archive
Plangent as music itself, serene as sculpture, with smiling lips magically crimson, adorably human, she finished her first concerto.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
Plangent and sad, in every wind that blows Who will may hear the sorry words repeated:- 'The Gods are Dead!'
From Poems by Henley, William Ernest
Plangent is from the Latin plango, to strike, to beat.
From Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Vocabulary lists containing plangent
The Inquisitor's Tale
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Stardust
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