(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(4) The plodding football we saw earlier in the season has been replaced by the old, thrilling excitement and the volume was turned high.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 ?
Trundle
Definition:
(v. i.) A round body; a little wheel.
(v. i.) A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.
(v. i.) A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
(v. i.) A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.
(v. i.) One of the bars of a lantern wheel.
(v. t.) To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.
(v. t.) To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball.
(v. i.) To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.
(v. i.) To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is why, you see, people with rucksacks pummel all those in their immediate vicinity with their giant sacks as they trundle on their way, whacking them about as they blithely move about trains, pavements or any other public area.
(2) The vehicle has been trundling around the large Gale crater looking for evidence that Mars was habitable in the ancient past.
(3) "Outside of the COI I'd say we had been trundling along nicely.
(4) We left with a wind-up frog that seemed entrancingly lifelike in the shop floor demo, but at home just trundled dully up and down the bathtub until it caught black mould and was banished to the airing cupboard.
(5) 5 min: Hughes brings down Trundle in the middle of the park and Bristol City will take this chance to chip the ball into the box.
(6) Instead of shooting from an increasingly tight angle, he drags the ball back into the path of Lahm, trundling along behind him.
(7) It denies the rebels have surface-to-air missiles, despite video footage showing the truck-mounted system trundling through east Ukraine (and more recently heading back to Russia).
(8) The train now trundles through silent stations, its wagons free of the crowds of men, women and children who once clung to roofs and ladders.
(9) Viktor Nemets plays the decent, dogged driver who trundles through lawless rural badlands before grinding his gears in a gutted community where the menfolk have gone to the bad and the police are too busy tracing nude pictures out of girlie magazines to do anything about it.
(10) The $2.5bn (£1.6bn) trundling science lab began its mission on Mars after a dramatic arrival last month in which the rover was winched to the surface from a spacecraft hovering overhead on rocket thrusters.
(11) The clearance falls to Shaw, who trundles forward until someone deigns to close him down, which is quite a while.
(12) Jamaica meanwhile try a couple of long balls over the top (their predicted tactic pre-game) before Woodbine tries a shot from distance that trundles weakly out for a goal kick.
(13) The breakthrough came after nine minutes when Navas cut the ball back into Touré’s path and the Ivorian’s shot flicked off two players before trundling past Myhill almost in slow motion.
(14) Trundling on a cheesy tourist trail around the Italian capital (the Trevi fountain, the Spanish Steps), it tells four whimsical stories that never intersect, meaning that its most watchable stars – Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni and Allen, appearing in one of his movies for the first time since Scoop, in 2006 – never interact.
(15) One plan is for a mass "kiss-in" as the Popemobile trundles past.
(16) There is little sign that the country faces yet another fateful election next Sunday, except for a couple of posters in support of the ruling Justice and Development party, or AKP, and a solitary election van trundling through the streets blaring AKP’s campaign messages through the rows of immaculate yellow and beige housing blocks.
(17) Over four days as the train trundled its way through the heart of Russia and in to Mongolia, two people who were adamant they were not looking for love, opened their hearts, fell madly in love, began planning a future, pledging to spend the rest of their lives together.
(18) If you live in rural Cumbria, chances are you don’t see the inside of many buses: in some parts a bus comes trundling along once a week.
(19) 76 min: Uruguay substitution: Alvaro Pereira, who has played well, trundles off, to be replaced by Abreu, author of that splendid winning spotkick against Ghana.
(20) Google’s cars are trundling slowly around city streets, a strategy that exposes them to more risk and uncertainty, but also means that any accidents are likely to be slow-speed bumps and scrapes.