(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(4) The plodding football we saw earlier in the season has been replaced by the old, thrilling excitement and the volume was turned high.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 ?
Trudge
Definition:
(v. i.) To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a moment’s relief in what is becoming an endless trudge on the road to recovery.
(2) 7:23pm: Out trudge the players, looking tense - perhaps because of the stakes of the match, or maybe because of all the formalities Fifa make them endure before kick-off.
(3) Then they trudged through heavy, deep snow and climbed up to another ridge.
(4) Some of these measures appeared to be lifted over the weekend, but as thousands trudged or bussed their way towards Austria and then Germany, the dismal scenes in Hungary will stain one administration’s human rights record – and perhaps the reputation of a nation.
(5) Crunching their way gingerly along pavements scattered with de-icing salt, they hurried from shop to shop – young mothers wheeling pushchairs, older women leaning heavily on shopping trolleys, men trudging alongside their partners, laden with carrier bags.
(6) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(7) The rest of us may be baffled that the slowest trudge out of recession in history has been followed by the fastest growth of any advanced economy.
(8) They come to us alive with intentionality, describing themselves in movement, waltzing through the ballroom, trudging through the marsh after wildfowl, racing horses, cutting hay.
(9) Two days later, with the snow falling hard, I trudge across town to Nymphomaniac's base camp.
(10) There was a something of an installation art mystery tonight after the sudden closure of the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall , where visitors have been enjoyably trudging through and relaxing on the artist Ai Weiwei's vast grey field of 100m sunflower seeds.
(11) After consoling a dejected Johnson-Thompson, who finished her heptathlon with a slow trudge round the 800m, Ennis-Hill refocused for a javelin competition that she knew could all but secure victory.
(12) Visitors to their new European home will soon be able to observe the pair in captivity, while rangers in their homeland are trudging through forests, collecting DNA samples and logging droppings and paw prints.
(13) On what was to become a hot and nearly cloudless day Canadians trudged towards the site, most wearing the national colours, many carrying maple leaf flags in their hair or on their baseball caps or T-shirts.
(14) Delegates trudge past youth protesters doing street theatre or interpretive dance with barely a glance.
(15) At first, they simply trudged across the rolling landscapes, randomly attacking the sheep, cows and ducks that graze each Minecraft world.
(16) Lessons learned ... Feminism is dead Over the 476 minutes of vampires, wolves and long, lingering looks, Bella's life (much like life after 30) is a depressing trudge towards marriage and babies.
(17) I trudged for hours on footpaths without seeing anyone.
(18) Ordinary citizens trudge in from work, there's a warm murmur of chat, they sing the first few notes of A Little Respect, and we step from the grey of the outside streets into a sunnier, brighter world.
(19) So, I will have to continue trudging down to one or other of the local hospitals for treatment, and get the snuffles, or worse, on the way.
(20) As we left the intimate cocoon of the pub, my bouncy excitement became more of a trudge as, heart in mouth, I babbled and swore, and panicked that I couldn't do it, terrified that stage fright and nerves would overtake me, and that my tentative voice would abandon me altogether.