PLOT in a Sentence

Learn PLOT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
117 example sentences for PLOT, such as:
1. The film had an exciting plot.
2. The play has a very simple plot.
3. The plot was only there to beget emotion.
4. There was no need to puzzle out the plot.
5. The plot of the TV series is quite complex.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PLOT
plot
 n.  a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
 v.  make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
Classic Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  The plot thickens," he said, as I entered; "I have just had an answer to my American telegram.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  The plot was for Snowball, at the critical moment, to give the signal for flight and leave the field to the enemy.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
3  In the middle of the summer the animals were alarmed to hear that three hens had come forward and confessed that, inspired by Snowball, they had entered into a plot to murder Napoleon.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
4  A gander who had been privy to the plot had confessed his guilt to Squealer and immediately committed suicide by swallowing deadly nightshade berries.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
5  There was such a medley of things going on, what with the beldame's deafness, the bawling of the youths, and the confusion of the plot that she could make nothing of it.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
6  The plot was only there to beget emotion.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
7  There was no need to puzzle out the plot.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
8  Don't bother about the plot: the plot's nothing.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
9  Now that the plot's out, Brother Bob's bounty must go to the virgins.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
10  Michaelis had seized upon Clifford as the central figure for a play; already he had sketched in the plot, and written the first act.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  But perhaps she would recoil from a plot to take the life of Sikes, and that was one of the chief ends to be attained.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
12  She first reached Wildeve's Patch, as it was called, a plot of land redeemed from the heath, and after long and laborious years brought into cultivation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
13  Then she walked into the enclosed plot and looked through her grandfather's spyglass, as she had been in the habit of doing before her marriage.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
14  And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been woven round him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
15  The idea of using her as a decoy was clearly already in his mind, though he may not have been certain how the details of his plot were to be arranged.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  They were accused of being privy to the plot against the king.
2  The audience must have been totally mystified by the plot.
3  The author draws the different strands of the plot together in the final chapter.
4  The plot of the TV series is quite complex.
5  The plot of the film was too involved - I couldn't understand it.
6  The court heard how she and her lover hatched a plot to kill her husband.
7  We discover that Jack isn't as innocent as he seems, as the plot unfolds.
8  The film had an exciting plot.
9  The plot was too complicated for me I couldn't follow it.
10  The general is accused of conniving in a plot to topple the government.
11  Security forces have uncovered a plot to overthrow the government.
12  They uncovered a plot to destabilize the government.
13  The plot of the movie bears more than a passing resemblance to Jane Austen's "Emma".
14  The play has a very simple plot.
15  Yesterday's meeting was intended to plot a survival strategy for the party.