plodding

[ US /ˈpɫɑdɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /plˈɒdɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
    I could recognize his plod anywhere
  2. hard monotonous routine work
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of movement) slow and laborious
    leaden steps
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How To Use plodding In A Sentence

  • It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
  • I watched her plodding her way across the field.
  • The fancy can no more soar and disport in skyey regions, the beloved object ceases at once to be celestial, and remains plodding on earth, entirely unromantic and substantial. The Virginians
  • Five minutes later he was plodding steadily ahead of his big Mackenzie hound into the peopleless barrens to the south and west. Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police
  • I think it is incorrect to view my batting as plodding along at one pace. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two words that describe the pace and plot of this film are plodding and uninteresting.
  • The plodding pace at which he batted meant those following him had to sacrifice their wickets to the cause. Times, Sunday Times
  • Album opener ‘Petrified Possessions’ is guided by a plodding piano line that's backed by a tremulous guitar adorned with tines of feedback.
  • It was easier to see Frankie jumping up and down in a mosh pit than plodding around in Vince's arms to a dreamy Anita Baker love song. FLIGHT LESSONS
  • So by rights we should be in the midst of spring, with lambs leaping, the smell of dew hanging in the air and the sight of rowers happily plodding home from the Cherwell.
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