(v. i.) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
(v. t.) To walk on slowly or heavily.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thrasher Mitchell: Then why is that idiot Bernard Hogan-Howe getting a knighthood when his plebby plods tried to stitch me up?
(2) In one way they were right to state the obvious – because Celtic were utter plod at the back – but hubris is best not displayed until you are beyond the reach of vengeance, as opposed to being about to walk into the fortress of the foe you have just mocked.
(3) Certainly Alan has far warmer feelings towards the Kop hero than whoever it was that compared him to Leicestershire's premier plodding lad rockers.
(4) The plodding football we saw earlier in the season has been replaced by the old, thrilling excitement and the volume was turned high.
(5) But now, of course, everyone's doing it – and if you can really contemplate spending an entire evening out of your painfully short life watching Ocean Colour Scene plod through Moseley Shoals then, honestly, get some help.
(6) What I actually did was marry the mind-numbing tedium of a second-rate reality show, with the plodding boredom of a sub-standard pub quiz.
(7) He is remarkable for his ineptitude.” “I suggest that you know perfectly well how addressing an officer as PC Plod what would have been his reaction.” “You accept a possibility that you said that to him and if you did as I suggest you did, it shows a complete insensitivity to the police providing your protection.” Later, Browne asked him about another incident, when a trip from Kenya to Somalia was delayed and he was said to have launched into a foul-mouthed tirade and “exploded”.
(8) And I think if we get 10, 15 or 20% buy-in in the schools, getting the results by building students who are independent, imaginative and resourceful, then plodding along behind will be central government and policymakers who will design a policy to support it.
(9) I believe that a lighthearted exchange could have taken place.” “PC Plod is the Toyland constable in the Noddy stories isn’t he?” Browne said.
(10) 7.31pm BST Meanwhile it's still very plodding from Barcelona.
(11) In one post, Jack ponders how the beat cops of 15 years ago have evolved from Doc Martens-wearing, wooden-stick carrying plods into tooled-up, taser-wielding "imperial stormtroopers".
(12) The plodding Najib's overriding objective is winning the general election expected next year, possibly within a few months.
(13) But more than any previous visit by an American president, yesterday was charged with history - deep history, that is, dating back to the American revolution of 1776; a sense of restlessly creative America embarking on an adventure while the ancien régime plods on the edge of fin-de-something.
(14) The first thing they’re going to say is: “It wasn’t the Brummie Boardwalk we were promised!” Look them in the eye and respond: “Oh, so you wanted it to plod through two seasons of stodgy plots bogged down by political machinations no one but a policy wonk could get excited about before really getting going in seasons 3 and 4?” Then wait for the applause anyone within earshot will give you.
(15) Right now, there’s a kind of plodding earnestness to Seattle’s approach play as they dutifully rather than artfully switch the point of attack.
(16) We do not believe four more years on the same plodding course toward economic recovery is the best path forward for Texas or the nation.
(17) As time plodded on and an understanding of the biological complexity increased, the task seemed bigger and bigger.
(18) Gary dons his board shorts and plods gingerly to the pool.
(19) It is a bit plodding but it does achieve its objective at the end of the day.” Campaign concerns There are concerns that the campaign lacks a heart.
(20) Could the Times and the Sunday Times plod on losing perhaps £60m a year between them, with editorial staffing maybe 200 more than the Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph ?
Stagger
Definition:
(n.) To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.
(n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
(n.) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
(v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.
(v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
(v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
(n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
(n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
(n.) Bewilderment; perplexity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinton lost the presidency and Democrats lost those seats, as Democrats suffered staggering defeats across two branches of government.
(2) On admission, neurological examination revealed staggering gait and the right cerebellar ataxia showing dysmetria and dysdiadochokinesis.
(3) These observations suggest that the inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas axonemes are aligned not in a single straight row, but in a staggered row or two discrete rows.
(4) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(5) There are rumours that this is the case again and I can't imagine what these people are thinking, it staggers me.
(6) Terminase, the DNA packaging enzyme of phage lambda, binds to lambda DNA at a site called cosB, and introduces staggered nicks at an adjacent site, cosN, to generate the cohesive ends of virion lambda DNA molecules.
(7) When allowance was made for specific pairing between extrahelical and helical domains, the so-called D-staggered (D = 670 A) alignment of molecules was preferred, as opposed to a nonstaggered, or nematic, alignment.
(8) Staggerer cerebellar cortex exhibits the greatest fluorescence with most terminals appearing as matted tangles adjacent cell bodies.
(9) Speaking about the forthcoming T-charge, Khan said: “It’s staggering that we live in a city where the air is so toxic that many of our children are growing up with lung problems.
(10) The metabolism of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) in the CNS was investigated in four kinds of morphologically different ataxic mice; reeler, staggerer, weaver and Purkinje cell degeneration mutants, and in hypocerebellar mice experimentally produced by injection of cytosine arabinoside.
(11) The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.
(12) The sliding splint-staples, generally two, are placed in staggered positions behind the sternum (11 cases--funnel chest) or in front of the sternum (2 cases--pigeon chest).
(13) water retention, depression, transient staggering and phlebitis).
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yemen government ground forces and Saudi-led air strikes attack Houthi militias The blockade – which is also being enforced in the air and on land – has choked a fragile economy already staggering under the impact of a six-month civil conflict pitting Yemeni forces loyal to the President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, now exiled in Riyadh, against Houthi rebels allied to his predecessor and rival, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
(15) Lucie Faucherre, junior policy analyst, Gender Equality and Women’s Rights OECD , Paris, France, @luciefaucherre Include youth voices: Today, young people under 30 make up a staggering 50% of our world’s population.
(16) The men's list was published in September and saw Johnny Depp on top with a staggering $75m in annual earnings.
(17) The staggering figure – one of the worst bombings in 13 years of war in Iraq – has cast a pall on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and which begins on Wednesday in Iraq .
(18) The main symptom "incoordination" (ataxia, asynergy, paresis, paralysis) is used by us more precisely only in case of impairment of nervous system by neoplastic infiltrations and does not signify as possible symptoms of general physical weakness, for example faltering, staggering, tumbling or lameness.
(19) In the presence of Co+2 ion, the primer specificity is altered so that all forms of duplex DNA molecules can be labeled at their unique 3'-ends regardless of whether such ends are staggered or even.
(20) In examining two different sets of experiments, it is proposed that staggered joint interpolation is the underlying planning strategy.