Example sentences for: plodding

How can you use “plodding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The other, Ronald Radosh, had described it as "heavy and plodding, without any real juice to it."

  • Johnson's opposite number in North America, Noah Webster, was hardly a wit of the same order, but he too seems to have occasionally injected a (somewhat plodding) cynical humor into the definitions in his dictionary of 1828:

  • But just when you start to get impatient with the plodding, one-thing-after-another style of narration, there's a shocker that blows you into the movie's last act, and then a scene in which a couple of former antagonists figure out what stinks and join forces in an abandoned motel to stave off an army of bad guys.

  • It is hard to counter a proverb: they have all the plodding force of a mule-driving peasant, earthy and inevitable.

  • 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.


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