plangent
adjective
resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound, as a bell.
plangently
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a word derived from
plangent.
Example Sentences
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But they are also plangently individual, yearning to harmonize their fates with their true selves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
“His tone is sometimes plangently lyrical, sometimes sarcastically sharp,” Woolfe wrote.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2022
I've never wanted to escape myself—never nodded along with the refrain "I'm too much with myself / I wanna be someone else" from Evan Dando's plangently beautiful Lemonheads song "My Drug Buddy."
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2021
The American landscape, however, was no longer made up of trees and cows lowing plangently at dusk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2020
For the bells did the work of arousing curiosity; they tolled plangently into the night.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
