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Example sentences for: plodding

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There's a kind of dignity in Lehrer's plodding reluctance to opine, in his hangdog humility, in his desire to serve as moderator rather than interrogator.
In the 18th century, an attempt was made to improve its plodding appearance with some baroque additions, but the church remains rather lifeless.
Turgidly written and dense with 534 footnotes and seven appendixes, Ruddy's plodding book repeatedly confuses the evidence and chases after scores of imaginary holes in the official verdict--without ever positing an alternative scenario that makes the least bit of sense.
Not even a cover rave in Time for Eyes Wide Shut --a Warner Bros. release--could turn that plodding movie into a hit.
It is hard to counter a proverb: they have all the plodding force of a mule-driving peasant, earthy and inevitable.