Example Sentences

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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

It’s a different story in the United States, where efforts to adapt and mitigate American cities for severe storms and rising seas have been plodding.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021

Since I bade good-by to you, up to this very evening, I have been plodding over a bridge that didn't exist, much to my own discomfort.

From A Rock in the Baltic by Barr, Robert

All this has come to pass while Josephine and I have been plodding along the route of all flesh, trying not to forget our early aspirations.

From The Opinions of a Philosopher by Grant, Robert

It would have been plodding work to any who had lesser things at stake, but as it was the days passed almost as in a dream.

From The Web of the Golden Spider by Fisher, Harrison