He plaintively kicked the rock in front of him.
sadly, mournfully, sorrowfully eg at the funeral his close family were plaintively bemoaning his loss with tears rolling down their cheeks.
The sentence that you wrote above.
The old woman sighed plaintively, my husband's dead and my children have gone far away.
wistfully, mournfully, sadly, sorrowfully
plaintive meaning expressive of suffering or woe
i do not know how to use embalming in a sentence. (there is the sentence)
So- you are asking when to use 'when' in a sentence. When you are asking how to use when in a question, you are already using when in a sentence, because a question actually is a sentence. I like to use when in a sentence whenever I like.
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