1. He was quiet, conscientious, a bit of a plodder.

2. Dennis is a bit of a plodder, but he gets the job done in the end.

3. Character, narrative, plot - only a dogged, dull-witted plodder like Malcolm Lodgebury bothers with that sort of stuff now.

4. A bottom plodder by nature, a startled common snapper coaxes grace from its heavy, muscled body as it swims across a Florida pond.

5. Anyway, I could go no faster, being the slow-starter, long-distance plodder type.

6. Until now Justin has been an obedient civil servant, content to toe the official line-in short, a plodder.

7. What makes cognac the international high-flyer, and armagnac the spotty, stay-at-home plodder?

8. They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder.

9. He tries to play 10 matches a year, but is frustrated by being "a plodder, a grafter, slow but sure... You're either good or you're bad," he muses as our time draws to a close.