plugger

Example Sentences

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Our local sports heroes are pluggers, just like us.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

Next, the pluggers must measure the wellbore and determine to what depths they must pour cement to keep the well from leaking into water tables or other underground geologic formations.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2021

The speakership, by contrast, is a place for pluggers.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2019

For years under former coach Darryl Sutter, the two were defensive pluggers, the kind of player that Sutter relished in a system that didn’t encourage creativity.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2017

All at once she pounced upon a sheaf of old hand instruments in a coverless cigar-box, pluggers, hard bits, and excavators.

From McTeague by Norris, Frank