plod

Football players would plod up it as part of their training camp, and Harbaugh would run with them and urge them along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

In Kirk’s name, they will continue to plod through long, grueling, nonsensical arguments about Egyptian aircraft and Emmanuel Macron, with people who are simply never going to listen.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025

In trying to make media-watching “easier,” tech has slowed the process to a maddening plod.

From Salon ● May 22, 2025

The Guardian's Wendy Ide praised the "thrillingly dynamic central performance from the versatile Domingo", but added the film itself was more of a "dutiful plod through the facts".

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2023

Trudging forward like a sleepwalker in the bitter cold, I make my way down the driveway, then turn left and plod up the rutted dirt road to the falling-down bridge.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Federal support has served as a stock catalyst over the past few months as Oklo plods toward profitability.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

There’s something conspiratorial in a song like “World on a String,” which plods forward with a slow menace, as inviting as it is eerie.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024

But mostly “Next Goal Wins” just plods along, agreeable and familiar and instantly forgettable.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

As of now, Slate’s X presence has returned to normal—which is to say, it plods on, reaping diminishing rewards on a platform that is indifferent, at best, to its presence.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2023

I watch him as he plods forward in his steel-toed boots, his hands in his pockets and his eyes on the line of trees beyond the trailers.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

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

“I’ve reached the point of, I’m just going to endure it,” Juan Vargas said as they plodded down Mountain Highway 99.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 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

They plodded upward to establish Camp 3 at the base of the Polish Glacier, at about 19,400 feet.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2023

Eighteen miles was a heroic distance for us, but we were filthy and trail-weary and more than ready for a town, and so we plodded on.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

The power of that writing is let down by another plodding arrangement, stripping Abrams' words of their urgency.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

“I love working with animals,” she said, plodding down a gravel road toward a clover-carpeted pasture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Denton’s late-summer start date shows that Nike’s turnaround is plodding along, but will take time.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

All season, the Trailblazers had been plodding along preparing for the inevitable matchup of No. 1 vs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026

Often you will be plodding through the sanctuary of woods when suddenly a car will sail past through the trees only forty or fifty feet away—a perennially startling sight.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson