plodding
Example Sentences
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The fast start followed two games in which the plodding Golden Knights watched the Ducks skate rings around them.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
The story is plodding, the characters are boring and earnest, and the supposed comic-relief act provided by the trio of stumblebums on Arco’s trail is a wince-inducing failure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
With a short season, smaller scope and much lighter tone, this could be the welcome antidote to the humorless, plodding “HotD,” and get Westeros fans excited again.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025
That 1973 informant report ignited what had been, up until that point, a plodding and inconclusive investigation into what had already been known about King’s murder.
From Slate • Dec. 1, 2025
As she spoke, the familiar and unmistakable squinch-squanch, squinch-squanch of the DYNNE’s heavy footsteps could be heard plodding over the hill, and when he finally appeared he was dragging an incredibly large sack behind him.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
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