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 first half of the film feels very slow and plodding.
    — NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • But what would this have looked like without all that plodding plotting?
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The buildup of naval assets off and around the coast of Iran is blunt and plodding.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
  • As our team plods upstream from the creek’s mouth, the stream is flanked by alder and cottonwood trees.
    — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The one after that showed a possum plodding into and through some hedges.
    — Ryan Bradley, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • It's forecast to plod a path between the two on Thursday.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Carolina seemed to plod on offense last season, but that should change.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 14 July 2017
  • Peggy Miller plodded around the track dressed as a trash can filled with empty beer cans.
    — Washington Post, 6 May 2017
  • Awake Emily would have stressed out and plodded through the item, missing a fun evening.
    — By Emily Parnell, kansascity.com, 5 July 2017
  • On the bases, the Twins were plodding, and their defense was one of the worst in baseball.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • For a movie about a stimulant, there’s a remarkable lack of zip; events plod along like a sober bear.
    — WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • As the two frontrunners plod along, there's been a lot of action trying to supplant them.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • In both cases, the clock was added to accelerate a plodding game.
    — Frederic J. Frommer, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The draft plodded on, through Hawaiian shirts and all the way to Pick No.
    — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2020
  • That is a breakneck pace for the tech world, let alone the plodding rhythms of Hollywood.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 30 May 2025
  • 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
  • Three penguins, dressed in colorful winter-wear, plod across the snow, with one doing a face-plant.
    — Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • The plodding pace of previous years is set to be replaced by a much more up-tempo approach.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • That’s because most expect the economy to plod ahead and avoid a recession.
    — Stan Choe, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026

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