How to Use plot in a Sentence

plot

1 of 2 noun

• The movie has a weak plot.
• The book's plot revolves around a woman who is searching for her missing sister.
• The prime minister was the target of an assassination plot.
• They just bought a 12-acre plot of land.
• Police uncovered a plot to assassinate the prime minister.
• But life is full of plot twists!
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 1 May 2026
• No word yet on the film’s plot.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 June 2026
• Such a plot is called a light curve.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2026
• But talk of coups and plots doesn’t come from nowhere.
  — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
• The answer is not a plot twist.
  — Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
• But the plot has to work with the music.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
• Watch them and ignore the trite plots.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• In a sense, the sentence was the plot.
  — Ian MacKenzie, Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
• No word yet on the plot of the feature take.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2026
• Anything with a plot that isn’t mine.
  — Jamilee Hoglind, Outside, 29 Jan. 2026
• But this week, the plot thickened.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
• Are people just sick of plot, or what?
  — Kristen Arnett, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
• From here, the film’s plot is simple.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
• Some plot points make very little sense.
  — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
• There’s a feel-good plot, for real.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
• Books with no discernible plot.
  — Amy Silverberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
• Many tender, poignant scenes shift the plot.
  — Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2026
• There’s some plot overlap in the first two plays.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
• Sounds like the plot of a tear-jerking movie, no?
  — David Oliver, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
• The details may have changed, but the plot was the same.
  — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 7 May 2026
• What is the plot of the new Bride Wars?
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Feb. 2026
• And that its plot, too, features a last-of-its-kind snail?
  — Maria Reva september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
• Thor already had one plot with a plane going down.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
• And every great story has a plot twist.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
• The loose plot feels like a travelogue of sorts.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025

plot

2 of 2 verb

• Have you plotted the route for your trip yet?
• They plotted to steal the painting.
• They've plotted the locations where the trees will be planted.
• She spent her years in prison plotting her revenge.
• We've been plotting growth strategies for the company.
• Students plotted soil temperatures on a graph throughout the school year.
• She carefully plotted her career path.
• Same thing with plotting a play.
  — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
• His colony of fire ants was plotting an escape.
  — Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 19 Sep. 2025
• Pick and choose, then plot your return visit.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
• How their deadline trades could plot a path to a lottery pick.
  — Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
• What was the process of waking up from that and plotting your next move?
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
• Taylor has been plotting with the Chanel team for some time now.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 16 Mar. 2026
• This man claims that Tamra was plotting this out with a friend of his.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
• With nobody alive to help them, the kids begin to plot their own escape.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
• There’s plenty of runway to plot out a threequel.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 8 May 2026
• This leaves Stephen skulking away to plot his revenge some other way.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
• Maybe even plotting a permanent move abroad?
  — Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
• From their moon base, the Drac’s plotted a takeover of England.
  — Vulture, 13 Aug. 2023
• This line plots the current price back 26 periods in time.
  — Karl Montevirgen, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
• Boris is the more vocal and brazen of the two, while Arkady is thoughtful and plotting.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
• Ready to start plotting your own Athens adventure?
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2026
• Harper is a surfer who plays by her own rules and even plots to break up her mother from her current fiancé.
  — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• The same teenager who drafts op-eds to send to places like the Times plots his next battle attack.
  — Liana Handler follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
• The teen sets out to salvage the trip by secretly plotting to break the couple up.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
• His path here wasn’t plotted out as brand strategy or a pivot to wellness.
  — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
• His upper half is running the play while his lower half is plotting an escape route.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
• And Aubry is already plotting her revenge.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
• In the end, Zipf plotted dozens and dozens of languages and got that same minus one slope for all of them.
  — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
• Studios and our intrepid brand partners wanted to plot with us to bring Alf back to life.
  — USA TODAY, 26 July 2023