Example Sentences

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“We were plugging numbers and looking at everything like everyone else was,” Harlan said.

From Washington Times • Aug. 8, 2023

In April 2013, as the Senate and House groups were plugging along with their bills, Paul Ryan joined Gutiérrez at a Chicago City Club luncheon to push immigration reform.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2016

At the end of the first period against the Hurricanes Tuesday night, the were plugging along nicely in their efforts to build on the consistency of a two-win weekend.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2013

It was perhaps a fairly minor cultural gap in the station's cultural arsenal that we were plugging.

From BBC • May 21, 2013

And no more than into the open Atlantic than we were plugging into it.

From Sonnie-Boy's People by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)