Example Sentences

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All season, the Trailblazers had been plodding along preparing for the inevitable matchup of No. 1 vs.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

Up until then, the campaign had been plodding along.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2020

Virginia Woolf was not taught – and because I had been plodding through English Literature in Prose A-Z since I was about 12, at the Accrington public library, I hadn’t reached W.

From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2017

Both teams had been plodding through low-scoring games of late until they combined for perhaps the most entertaining meeting of the season Sunday night.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2016

The lower story of the palace was worn, lacerated, and dusty, like feet which had been plodding for centuries.

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances