How to Use plod in a Sentence

plod

verb
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  • I could hear my roommate plodding up the steps to our apartment.
  • The screen went dark with the Rover plodding down the highway at 80 mph—in the dark.
    — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 6 July 2017
  • The draft plodded on, through Hawaiian shirts and all the way to Pick No.
    — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2020
  • Trains and workers plodded through the rail yard, all trapped in a deep malaise.
    — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Creative and culinary teams came and went as the project plodded along.
    — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
  • As our team plods upstream from the creek’s mouth, the stream is flanked by alder and cottonwood trees.
    — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The bull stops short of stomping him with its front hooves and just stares the man down before plodding away.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Awake Emily would have stressed out and plodded through the item, missing a fun evening.
    — By Emily Parnell, kansascity.com, 5 July 2017
  • Peggy Miller plodded around the track dressed as a trash can filled with empty beer cans.
    — Washington Post, 6 May 2017
  • The one after that showed a possum plodding into and through some hedges.
    — Ryan Bradley, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • For a movie about a stimulant, there’s a remarkable lack of zip; events plod along like a sober bear.
    — WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But there were audible yawns as The Young Marx plodded through its two hour run-time, my own among them.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Yet, for now, both are content to plod along in the shallows, ignoring the currents pulling events around them.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Gasol missing in action While the Memphis is plodding through a 19-52 season that could earn them the No.
    — Marc Narducci, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • As the Yankees plod along with a middling record — and the worst offense in the American League East — that could be changing.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 18 June 2016
  • And economies in the United States and abroad are plodding along at a pace that hardly suggests robust health.
    — Martin Crutsinger, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
  • As the two frontrunners plod along, there's been a lot of action trying to supplant them.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The 2024 presidential race has been plodding along at the slowest pace in decades.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Kitayama plodded along even as the wind began to pick up.
    — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Still, with a good tuning the lovable workhorse plodded on.
    — Susan Christian Goulding, Orange County Register, 17 Feb. 2017
  • Visitors will plod along, travel the park on foot with backpack, or hire a horse and a wrangler guide.
    — Christopher Ketcham, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Meanwhile, the Nuggets plodded along with their best perimeter defender in and out of the lineup.
    — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2019
  • In both cases, the clock was added to accelerate a plodding game.
    — Frederic J. Frommer, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Billion-dollar world-building aside, The Rings of Power plods.
    — TIME, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Three penguins, dressed in colorful winter-wear, plod across the snow, with one doing a face-plant.
    — Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017
  • Dinosaurs plodded through the region some 130 million years ago, leaving their heavy tracks in the wet sands of a river delta.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Dinosaurs plodded through the region some 130 million years ago, leaving their heavy tracks in the wet sands of a river delta.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Baseball’s plodding pace will be picked up, one of the many rule innovations that will make the game faster and more action-packed.
    — Charles Curtis, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
  • On November 10, after two weeks in the wet forests—plodding forward just four miles on average each day—Robbins must have spied some sign of Brown’s passage.
    — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • López Obrador has invested billions of dollars in refinery projects and in propping up the plodding state oil giant, Pemex.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024

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