1.   A few days after the Teamsters and Associated Wholesale Grocers reached an agreement that allowed the union workers to return to their jobs, I received a plaintive note.

2.   But the viola, resolute, plays its plaintive note again, only to meet with another savage outburst.

3.   On that plaintive note, he reaffirms his resolve to let his hair fade.

4.   Still, there was a plaintive note in her commentary.

5.   Stroller now took on a plaintive note.

6.   The plaintive notes of a clarinet hung in the air as several dozen people filed into a small meeting room at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.