Example Sentences

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The story is plodding, the characters are boring and earnest, and the supposed comic-relief act provided by the trio of stumblebums on Arco’s trail is a wince-inducing failure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The vaccination campaign, meanwhile, is plodding along, with about 1 million shots administered each day.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 2, 2021

She is plodding and, according to Brussels diplomats, did not sparkle at dinner over pheasant and glasses of claret.

From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2019

What you have described here is not a life on a collision course with inescapable destruction, but rather a life that is plodding along fine—just not as you think it should.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2018

It is plodding in a certain sense, but by it the mountain is scaled; whereas the impetuous nature soon tires, or is injured, and the climb is over, half-finished.

From The True Citizen, How to Become One by Markwick, W. F.