stodge

Example Sentences

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Full-back Ruben Love broke the stodge with a brilliant step past two Welsh forwards for a fine individual try that underlined his promise.

From Barron's • Nov. 22, 2025

Crystal Palace have been transformed from the dull stodge of the final days of Roy Hodgson to exciting, attacking football under Oliver Glasner.

From BBC • May 20, 2024

It hopes banning the shift will lead to more hits, more action and less stodge.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2023

In the event United’s expensive brand of stodge is a reminder of just how difficult it is to engineer drive and fluency in a standard modern team of expensive bolt-on parts.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2018

"The Scian and the Teian Muse" Ruled us as tyrants absolute; Now even pedagogues refuse To stodge us with such stale old fruit.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891 by Various