plugging

Example Sentences

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It keeps plugging away without taking breaks to eat, sleep, answer emails, pick the kids up from school and watch the Knicks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Perhaps plugging numbers into this formula brings it to life, just as the baker brings a recipe to life by mixing ingredients in a bowl and baking them in the oven?

From Slate • May 25, 2026

But Atlassian just kept plugging along, beating earnings and sales expectations for the last 10 quarters.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

In many ways, plugging into the literary community and falling in love with reading again have healed that sense of loss.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

It reminded her of the time she’d been plugging a frayed lamp cord into the wall and her finger had landed on bare wire.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett