plaint

Example Sentences

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Mr. Cole, who seems proud that his Banana Ball has a family tree, echoes a common plaint among non-baseball fans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

“What seemed to be political fanaticism,” he writes there, “was only an excuse, a parable, a manifesto of fidelity, a coded plaint of love.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Instead of breaking something open, and for all its self-conscious daring, “Beau Is Afraid” stays in a relatively safe lane as one more Portnoy-esque plaint about Mom’s inhumanity to man.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023

And all of that life is in their music, which, thanks to Dorsey’s innovation, weds the plaint, woe and human upside of the Negro spiritual with the rhythm of the blues.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2019

Never before had humanity so badly needed its music to share the burden of anxiety, and composers everywhere answered this plaint.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall