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

I watch Ruby plod around the ring in endless circles, going nowhere.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

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

Grace and I sit on the wooden benches in the church basement, watching the illuminated slides on the wall, singing the words to the songs, while the piano plods onward in the darkness.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

I made my way to the Mess, the wheels of my thoughts turning slowly as I plodded along.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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

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

If these brilliant entities begin elbowing aside plodding humans, where does that leave us?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

What had happened to him in the second half, going time and time again with those plodding, thudding sweeps?

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger