plodder
Example Sentences
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They’ve resorted to laying on the big body like some plodder team in a bid to break through the Kraken forecheck.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
He rose to prominence as an ambitious plodder — as someone difficult for his colleagues to attack because he never had anything remotely interesting to say.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2022
In Washington he was a plodder and a plotter, eventually winning notice and repeatedly winning re-election.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
Another vastley overrated plodder hyped up by the English media.
From BBC ● May 30, 2015
He might be beaten once, twice, or fifty times; but 69 there would come a day to the patient plodder when the door of opportunity would open for him.
From The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol by Herbert Carter
