Two curlews flew over, calling plaintively, dark against a greying sky.

I called plaintively as they left, then returned my attention to hot tamales, cold beer, and the odd body or two.

He heard, for the first time, the sorrowing cry a vesta made as it died, calling plaintively to its own.

In the tops of the trees the wind began to play, disturbing the sleeping birds so that they flew about calling plaintively.

"Wait," she calls plaintively to a drug dealer as he races for a rooftop.

Birds called plaintively from the direction of the swamp, wondering where dawn was, and he went to sleep.

It called plaintively to him in a small, desperate whine.

They called to him plaintively, begging him to return, but he would not.

Flies were collecting, and large black birds circled overhead, calling plaintively.

Rukh called plaintively, "Won't the gentlemen wait to hear the story about the satyr?"