(1) He settled down to a steady plod

(2) Then it was a dire plod back along Rainhill Road, through Nutgrove then home.

(3) They were content to plod on with tedious tasks.

(4) In the main the group coped well, getting into a steady plod to get them to the top of the pass.

(5) Education should not be about ensuring that every individual can plod through an officially approved list of tasks, for the sake of multiple bits of paper.

(6) I've missed that slow plod along the Brendon Road to the new graveyard so much it's rather silly.

(7) Though the running time is a slim 83 minutes, I took me well over two hours to plod my way through this dull and dreary mess.

(8) I parked the car in a disabled driver's space just by the Quay West local radio station and went for a good plod .

(9) And yet it isn't: it continues for eleven more minutes, a grim plod to the finish.

(10) She was following him at a slow plod .

(11) The men plod , doggedly, with large unwieldy blackboards slung over their shoulders, but everywhere they look nobody is interested in reading and writing when living from day to day is such a concern.

(12) Time to get back to the shelter and then to pull my cap firmly down ready for the plod back home.

(13) We've been doing this tedious plod for almost five hours, and I think about hypothermia.

(14) Intelligent dark eyes surveyed the rain-tossed sky through the windows, the mass of people rushing for shelter then slowing down into a weary plod as they reached the shade awnings and begin their trudging to classes.

(15) Wilson paces the book by decades, but too often this can seem to be a bit of a plod .

(16) Soon I came to the reluctant conclusion that it was going to be an unexciting day, I decided to seek a bit of sun, sea and sand by taking my familiar plod along the front.

(17) Neither spoke, so they carried on, the horse plodding slowly along the path.

(18) But one of his political tricks is to lull people into seeing him as a bit of a grey plodder , when suddenly he'll surprise with a devastating turn of phrase, a damaging soundbite and barbed humour.

(19) Only one horse, a massive old mare that plodded slowly and tirelessly, hooves pounding the packed earth of the road with a quiet clop-clopping sound, drew the cart.

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