plodded

Example Sentences

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We plodded through the powder, passing deer tracks as we moved, until we reached a small clearing with several promising candidates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

After the increasingly disastrous three “Jurassic World” movies, which were vacuums of appeal as their star Chris Pratt plodded about bemoaning his precious housebroken velociraptors, the “Jurassic” series desperately needed a shot in the arm.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2025

We plodded through an obsidian darkness, one deliberate step at a time, our headlamp beams illuminating the way.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2024

But people must document 80 monthly hours of work, study, rehabilitation or volunteering to be eligible for Georgia’s Pathways program, and enrollment has plodded, with fewer than 1,100 people signed up through October.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024

Then Soames reappeared and plodded about like a parish beadle, backing down the steam radiator valves.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson