plodded

Example Sentences

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We plodded through the powder, passing deer tracks as we moved, until we reached a small clearing with several promising candidates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

After the increasingly disastrous three “Jurassic World” movies, which were vacuums of appeal as their star Chris Pratt plodded about bemoaning his precious housebroken velociraptors, the “Jurassic” series desperately needed a shot in the arm.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2025

They plodded upward to establish Camp 3 at the base of the Polish Glacier, at about 19,400 feet.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023

Some of them used to travel to work riding on donkeys that plodded along the verges of the road.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2023

Now his exhausted brain slipped into its accustomed circles: the withered paths, like those of the donkey in the treadmill, round which he had plodded many thousand times in vain.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White