- present participle of plod.
plodding
Example Sentences
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The power of that writing is let down by another plodding arrangement, stripping Abrams' words of their urgency.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“I love working with animals,” she said, plodding down a gravel road toward a clover-carpeted pasture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Denton’s late-summer start date shows that Nike’s turnaround is plodding along, but will take time.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Still, the production design has imaginatively askew takes on the mundane: gridded jail cells, plodding space buses, clumsy oxygen suits that shimmy on with a satisfying squeak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
My sheep taxi started plodding up the hill After a hundred yards, my hands and feet started to hurt from holding on.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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