How to Use plug away in a Sentence

plug away

verb
  • But the believers kept plugging away.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA Today, 14 June 2026
  • Uruguay is plugging away, trying to tie things up before halftime, but they’re being met by a wall in the form of Al-Owais.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 16 June 2026
  • Ozer reassured them that Matalas was already plugging away.
    — Steve Belanger, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Thompson, Rainey and Trusio are still plugging away at their searches, and adding to their spreadsheets, one row and column at a time.
    — Sarah Jackson, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Human rights organizations say the government is still plugging away at protesters; that is, plugging them.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Behind the scenes, countless other volunteers and organizations are plugging away, preferring to stay out of the limelight.
    — Kyla Mandel, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Multiply that by all the AC units worldwide that plug away in their respective summers, and the total condensate comes down to roughly 4 billion cubic meters.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • SpaceX, meanwhile, continues to plug away with a lineup of Falcon 9 launches from SLC-40.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
  • Lawmakers in the House and Senate plugged away with some final formal votes, in between lengthy and teary tributes to the members who are term-limited or otherwise not returning to the Capitol.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 14 May 2026
  • However, the 10 men kept plugging away in what was a pulsating end-to-end encounter and got a goal back after 68 minutes when Casemiro bulleted a header past Karl Darlow from a Ruben Fernandes cross.
    — ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The 452 members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and its chair, Ken Martin, are indeed there plugging away, trying to figure out how to get out of the wilderness.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025
  • With the entertainment industry in flux and talk everywhere about new models, Level Forward has been plugging away at one as a public benefit corporation — a for-profit company legally required to balance a focus on earnings with positive societal or environmental impact.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 19 May 2026

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