plodder

Example Sentences

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Contrast the Scottish plodders then and the Scottish thoroughbreds of last weekend at Twickenham.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2023

But when we came to the top of a steep hill on our regular course, Walter would break from the rest of us plodders and barrel down the hill, incanting, “Gravity is our friend!”

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2022

He’s become the guy who loves tall, white, big-armed plodders who struggle to throw passes to teammates, but do so with a pretty spiral.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2019

Shore and Lewis were plodders under former coach Darryl Sutter, but their skill from their younger days has resurfaced under John Stevens.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2017

Certainly Mr. Rollo was enjoying himself; and it was made more indubitably certain to the poor plodders along inside the coach, by the faint fumes of an excellent cigar which 'whiles' made themselves perceptible.

From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan