Example Sentences

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The sprawling, meticulously worked out plotting can seem ploddingly old-fashioned.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024

At Gamesradar, Neil Smith said the film was "about as scary as Barney the purple dinosaur in what is ultimately a ploddingly predictable, gore-lite yawner".

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023

It’s ironic that the specifically magical features of “Poker Face’s” premise produce a distinctly unmagical, ploddingly bureaucratic frame: Charlie knows the truth, so now she needs to find evidence to prove it.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023

The action set pieces in particular are ploddingly dull.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2019

Within a few days The Brain's cognitions appear to have arisen above the stage toward which all our sciences have been so slowly and ploddingly advanced for centuries.

From The Brain by Blade, Alexander