How to Use plod in a Sentence

plod

verb

• The day was plodding along.
• We plodded our way across the muddy field.
• I could hear my roommate plodding up the steps to our apartment.
• He plodded through his work.
• We plodded through mud that came up past our ankles.
• The screen went dark with the Rover plodding down the highway at 80 mph—in the dark.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 6 July 2017
• The draft plodded on, through Hawaiian shirts and all the way to Pick No.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2020
• Trains and workers plodded through the rail yard, all trapped in a deep malaise.
  — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2019
• Creative and culinary teams came and went as the project plodded along.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
• As our team plods upstream from the creek’s mouth, the stream is flanked by alder and cottonwood trees.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• The bull stops short of stomping him with its front hooves and just stares the man down before plodding away.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
• Awake Emily would have stressed out and plodded through the item, missing a fun evening.
  — By Emily Parnell, kansascity.com, 5 July 2017
• Peggy Miller plodded around the track dressed as a trash can filled with empty beer cans.
  — Washington Post, 6 May 2017
• The one after that showed a possum plodding into and through some hedges.
  — Ryan Bradley, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• For a movie about a stimulant, there’s a remarkable lack of zip; events plod along like a sober bear.
  — WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
• But there were audible yawns as The Young Marx plodded through its two hour run-time, my own among them.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2018
• Yet, for now, both are content to plod along in the shallows, ignoring the currents pulling events around them.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2022
• Gasol missing in action While the Memphis is plodding through a 19-52 season that could earn them the No.
  — Marc Narducci, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• As the Yankees plod along with a middling record — and the worst offense in the American League East — that could be changing.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 18 June 2016
• And economies in the United States and abroad are plodding along at a pace that hardly suggests robust health.
  — Martin Crutsinger, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
• As the two frontrunners plod along, there's been a lot of action trying to supplant them.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• The 2024 presidential race has been plodding along at the slowest pace in decades.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• Kitayama plodded along even as the wind began to pick up.
  — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Still, with a good tuning the lovable workhorse plodded on.
  — Susan Christian Goulding, Orange County Register, 17 Feb. 2017
• Visitors will plod along, travel the park on foot with backpack, or hire a horse and a wrangler guide.
  — Christopher Ketcham, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2018
• Meanwhile, the Nuggets plodded along with their best perimeter defender in and out of the lineup.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2019
• In both cases, the clock was added to accelerate a plodding game.
  — Frederic J. Frommer, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
• Billion-dollar world-building aside, The Rings of Power plods.
  — TIME, 7 Feb. 2024
• Adam Driver leads this plodding drama that can’t find its center.
  — EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
• The team – which only finished top of a weak group by the skin of its teeth - has been described as negative and defensive, the passing telegraphed and the movement plodding.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024