Definition: 1. The series of events which form the story of a novel, play, film/movie, etc. 2. A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation. 3. The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.. 4. Plan secretly, usually something illegal.
Use 'plot' in a sentence:
1. He has accused opposition parties of hatching a plot to assassinate the pope.
2. Despite its length and convoluted plot, "Asta's Book" is a rich and rewarding read.
3. Police in Brazil uncovered a plot to kidnap him.
4. For the next five years she plotted her career.
5. They used a computer to plot the movements of everyone in the building.
6. His short stories tend to be weak on plot.
7. It sets off the plot of the play.
8. The play has a very schematic plot.
9. We were trying to plot the course of the submarine.
10. The film is spoilt by unrealistic contrivances of plot.
11. She inveigles Paco into a plot to swindle Tania out of her savings.
12. The audience must have been totally mystified by the plot.
13. Help their children understand the program's plot.
14. What plot are you brewing?
15. Police have uncovered a plot to kidnap the President's son.
16. A Machiavellian plot was suspected.
17. A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.
18. The Tories have lost the plot on law and order.
19. Her ideas don't always hang together very well as a plot.
20. We had the people immediately concerned in the plot.
21. She has maintained that the General had foreknowledge of the plot.
22. He began to tell me the plot of his new book.
23. He has written only a skeletal plot for the book so far.
24. In the last half-hour of the movie the plot rapidly self-destructs.
25. You just keep watching it. If you understand what's happening with the plot and you are enjoying the plot.
26. Ackroyd worked out this whole plot with one objective in view.
27. Plot a graph of height against age.
28. They were accused of plotting against the state.
29. The author skilfully draws together the different threads of the plot.
30. We carefully plotted each patient's response to the drug on a chart.
31. The plot of the novel stretches credulity to the limit.
32. The plot does stretch credulity.
33. Yesterday's meeting was intended to plot a survival strategy for the party.
34. The author draws the different strands of the plot together in the final chapter.
35. The book is well organized in terms of plot.
36. The earthquake centres had been plotted on a world map.
37. The plot is almost impossible to follow.
38. Can you follow the plot so far?
39. They were plotting to overthrow the government.
40. Plots of land have been demarcated by barbed wire.
41. The play's plot stretches credulity to the limit.
42. The plot often borders on farce.
43. Military officers were suspected of plotting a coup.
44. There are some annoying loose ends in the plot.
45. First, plot the temperature curve on the graph.
46. The apparent simplicity of his plot is deceptive.
47. Complex family relationships interweave with a murder plot in this ambitious new novel.
48. She bought a small plot of land to build a house.
