Example Sentences

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Reyes, a 27-year-old DH, was plodding along for Cleveland after smacking 37 homers in 2019 and 30 last year.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2022

Yeghiayan, the son of a genocide survivor, was plodding one night through the memoirs of a former U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire when he stumbled on a passage about victims’ life insurance policies.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2022

Atlanta was plodding along at 14-20 when Lloyd Pierce was fired just before the All-Star break.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2021

Despite their efforts, the expansion that followed was plodding, leaving millions out of work for months on end.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2020

Two or three widgeon hung in one of them, and, far away to the eastward, a fly-like man was plodding over the slob in tiny persistence, to collect his bag.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White