What's the difference between bellying and plaintive?

Bellying


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belly

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effect of the mutation for white belly spot controlled by the dominant gene W on spermatogenesis in mice was examined by experimental cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal.
  • (2) A case of "Prune Belly" syndrome, its sonographic diagnosis, from the 15th week and its monitoring by sonography and biochemical exams of fetal urine for study of renal function is described.
  • (3) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
  • (4) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
  • (5) With an incidence of between 1 in 30,000 and 1 in 50,000 births, prune-belly syndrome (PBS) is a rare malformation syndrome.
  • (6) She walked around her Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in a crop top that showed her belly button ring; she also established herself as a hard- working MP for that area.
  • (7) and Isospora belli because they can be responsible for severe chronic enteritis in immunodeficient patients.
  • (8) We report the clinical findings, diagnostic problems and treatment of a 1-year-old Coloured child (with classic 'prune belly syndrome') in whom the spleen had undergone torsion, thus simulating an intra-abdominal abscess.
  • (9) She mentions the show at the Baltic in Gateshead in 2007, when one of her photographs, Klara and Edda Belly-dancing , owned by Elton John, was removed from the exhibition on the grounds that it was pornographic .
  • (10) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
  • (11) Treating the catheters with an organo-silane preparation, protecting the catheters against dislodgement, and use of a belly bandage to minimize damage to the external parts of the catheter may have prolonged catheter life in this experiment.
  • (12) Isospora belli infection is the most frequent coccidiosis after cryptosporidiosis in AIDS patients.
  • (13) The main features of the operation include identification of the facial nerve in all cases, division of the posterior belly of the digastric muscle and styloid apparatus, and excision of the styloid process.
  • (14) The posterior bellies of the digastric muscles were normal.
  • (15) By analogy with the comparable glands of the yellow-bellied toad and the grass frog, these are called the toxic, lumpy, mucous, callous, and small glands.
  • (16) The five-year project will see farmers in the eastern region implement measures to try to encourage the reproduction of the Great Hamster of Alsace, which can grow to 25cm (10in) long, has a brown and white face, a black belly, white paws and little round ears.
  • (17) Pregnant Muslim women had their bellies slit open with knives, and the foetuses pulled out.
  • (18) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
  • (19) The tail butt, esutcheon, belly, dewlap and to a lesser degree neck and ear were all very suitable sites on which to find cattle ticks.
  • (20) The activity of the left masseter, left temporalis, and both bellies of the anterior digastric muscle was studied by this double registration technique.

Plaintive


Definition:

  • (n.) Repining; complaining; lamenting.
  • (n.) Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3.46pm: The Guardian's Dan Sabbagh has just tweeted: Leveson asks Cameron plaintively for political consensus to get reforms through; the PM agrees.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest More critical is Desculpa Neymar (Sorry Neymar) a plaintive critique by Edu Krieger that highlights some of the grievances of the anti-World Cup protests that have taken place across the country since last year.
  • (3) A quarter of a century after I was hanging around Brent Cross, I was one of the team at the New Economics Foundation on the Clone Town Britain campaign, a plaintive cry against everywhere looking the same.
  • (4) Mirrors (2016) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Over plaintive piano and a slurry of Trump misogyny, a group of young girls comb their hair before a question is posed.
  • (5) Without naming and shaming, during the USA's game against Portugal, I saw one leftwing tweeter ask with plaintive, stony-faced sincerity "how can anyone be supporting the imperialists?"
  • (6) One senior lieutenant made a plaintive call for funds.
  • (7) Indeed, the running message of the black spider letters is not potency but a plaintive sigh of woe at a world going to the dogs.
  • (8) The first plaintive cries for Rooney to be brought on could be heard late in the first half.
  • (9) It’s a fight between what I know my country should be and what I see it turning into, which is the plaintive cry of all American millennials.
  • (10) And she had just one plaintive answer when I asked how she was.
  • (11) David Cameron asked plaintively more than once at prime minister's questions.
  • (12) The news that Facebook has splurged $2bn (£1.2bn) on buying Oculus Rift , the world's first really viable virtual reality headset, has set off waves of plaintive snark in the world of videogames.
  • (13) asked the Irish Times plaintively, evoking the poetry of WB Yeats from 1913 to grieve over the surrender of Irish sovereignty to a bunch of IMF and ECB accountants.
  • (14) Search and update are not the same Many a high-profile tweeter has confused the "search" and "update status" boxes, leading to such horrors as @edballsmp's plaintive "ed balls".
  • (15) The centre posted some before-and-after pictures, along with a plaintive message confirming that someone had recently been up to no good with a brush.
  • (16) "We need your help," begins the plaintive ad on the front of the Whitehaven News.
  • (17) There were old men and women, too feeble to walk, who were placed in carts; the younger members of the community on foot were carrying their bundles of clothes … while the children, with looks of alarm, walked alongside … A cry of grief went up to heaven, the long plaintive wail, like a funeral coronach, was resumed … the sound re-echoed through the wide valley of Strath in one prolonged note of desolation".
  • (18) When Republicans repeatedly get on stage at their national convention and toss attack after attack at my mom,” she wrote in a plaintive letter to supporters, “calling her things I’d never say in front of my children – let alone on live TV – they’re talking about a caricature they’ve imagined, not the woman I love and respect.” As he sought to appear more presidential, even the GOP’s nominee, Donald Trump , seemed embarrassed by the baying crowd, waving aside demands for Clinton’s incarceration with hands that encouraged the mob instead to chant “USA!
  • (19) he marvels plaintively, pretending to find such interest in him unfathomable. "
  • (20) The centre posted some graphic before-and-after pictures, along with a plaintive message confirming that someone had recently been up to no good with a brush.

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