How to Use plangent in a Sentence

plangent

adjective

• Track six, on the other hand, recalls the plangent reveries of ’90s IDM artists like Arovane.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 July 2026
• Anyone can strike a piano key and generate a note Vladimir Horowitz would be proud of, but getting one plangent tone out of a clarinet is a real triumph.
  — Robert Klose, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2025
• The tracks here are shorter, often resembling the plangent interludes one finds studded across Boards of Canada albums, but dressed up in Western wear.
  — Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 11 Feb. 2026
• Magaletti ventures a tentative introduction of brushes on snares; following the muted peal of distant thunder, upsammy chimes in with a plangent synthesizer sequence reminiscent of Arovane and other IDM producers from around the turn of the millennium.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026
• The polar figures of 16th-century Italian choral music, Palestrina, the Apollonian master of elegant counterpoint, and Gesualdo, the violent renegade of plangent harmonies, meet on the same program presented by Miller Theater.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025