plodding

Example Sentences

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If these brilliant entities begin elbowing aside plodding humans, where does that leave us?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

With a short season, smaller scope and much lighter tone, this could be the welcome antidote to the humorless, plodding “HotD,” and get Westeros fans excited again.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025

Improvements to Los Angeles International Airport have been plodding: The People Mover train’s opening date has been delayed again to June 2026.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

That 1973 informant report ignited what had been, up until that point, a plodding and inconclusive investigation into what had already been known about King’s murder.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2025

Of all the reasons that kept me plodding along the long and hard road of Bantu Education, the most important was that my mother and Granny were proud of me.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane